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When I was younger there was a TV show Star Trek The Next Generation I would watch on a regular basis. What intrigued me about the show was that each week the crew of the USS Enterprise would come up against an alien race or situation beyond their ability to overcome. Yet through whatever means […]

This time of year is when people start putting their News Year’s Resolutions in effect. They set in motion goals they want to accomplish in health, finances and other areas. Unfortunately many Resolutions fail. Only 8 percent of people actually keep their New Year’s resolutions, according to one commonly cited statistic. The Stoics had an […]

In 2017 author Nicholas Eberstadt released his book Men Without Work detailing how an unseen army of men simply are not working. They are considered no longer in the workforce meaning they are not working or not seeking work. The book describes that 7 million men of prime working age fall into this category. Today, […]

Consider these statistics. 4,836 workers were killed on the job in 2015— on average, more than 93 a week or more than 13 deaths every day. Out of 4,379 worker fatalities in private industry in calendar year 2015, 937 or 21.4% were in construction Falls — 364 out of 937 total deaths in construction in […]

Mindfulness is a tool that has become exceedingly popular recently. Only a few years ago the general public would not be familiar with the term, whereas today it’s something we hear about all the time in a range of different contexts. Mindfulness is often used to describe a type of meditation. Specifically, ‘mindfulness meditation’ is […]

There has been much written about the importance of focus. Books like The One Thing and Essentialism have become bestsellers. Traditional ideas like multi tasking have been shown to actually cause more problems than benefits. Focus is important because of its ability to make us more productive. With several tasks going on at the same […]

In 1996 The University of Ohio published a paper to describe career resilience. Here is an exerpt from that publication. Career resilience is described as  “the ability to adapt to changing circumstances, even when the circumstances are discouraging or disruptive. Another definition of career resilience is “the result or outcome of being career self-reliant. Although […]