My Word for 2018 - When I Grow Up

My Word for 2018 - When I Grow Up Do you decide on a Word of the Year? I have, since 2012-ish. While its always set with the best of intentions, sometimes it sticks and sometimes it doesnt. This years word, Be, was one that didnt. It wound up not meaning much when I reminded myself of it. Its still a concept Im trying to wrap my head around, and maybe it was premature. But maybe it was also because my word of 2016, Accept, was the biggest stick-er of all. It was nothing short of transformative for me, and lead to a huge year of growth both personally and professionally. So here we are, looking at 2018, and Ive known my word for months now: Compassion. Heres something not many people know: I am incredibly hard on myself. Ive always been the teachers pet, the people pleaser, the honor roll student and the performer who lived for applause. When I was going through my life coaching certification, I discovered my biggest limiting belief, instilled since childhood: Busy = Productive = Successful. So, I kept busy. So busy that, as I look at 40 (T-25 days), I can hardly sit still. And when I do sit still before 9pm-ish comes around when my brain says Im allowed to relax I feel guilty about it. I compare myself to others and focus on where Ive fallen short rather than the things Ive done that I know others admire, and that feel successful to me. While Ive been much better asking for help over the years, and choosing to spend time doing integral wellness work (meditation, yoga, exercise, journaling, etc.), I still hem and haw about it. I convince myself I can handle it all, and that there are more important things to be done than whatever I need in that moment for my own self-care, anxiety or sanity. Thanks to the hard work Ive done with my own life coach, Ive known for a while now that my world would change if I extended just a bit more   Compassion to myself in my normal day-to-day life. What would happen if I treated myself like my own best friend? What would expand if I told myself that I Am Enough, and decided to trust and believe it? What would change if I went beyond making a gratitude list most days and started recognizing my accomplishments of all sizes? I have a hunch that Id feel less anxious and more present each day, while feeling more gracious, calm and kind overall. I have a feeling that this would allow me to break through in my business in new, exciting ways. I have an instinct that my relationships would get deeper and stronger, and that Id be more forgiving towards others. I have a sense that this will allow me to start a new decade with an open mind and a grateful heart, ready for new beginnings and a foundation of good health. As my life coach says, Allow yourself to be surprised, so now Im asking, requesting, attracting, demanding that Compassion surprise me in 2018. Im ready for it.

Resume Writing For Freshman - How It Can Help You

Resume Writing For Freshman - How It Can Help YouIf you're a budding new college student, resume writing for freshman may not be something that you thought was going to be of any use to you. However, it may actually be very beneficial. If you know how to use a resume properly, you'll be able to walk right through a lot of hurdles that may arise on the job hunt. A good resume helps you to not only land the job that you want, but also build a strong foundation for the rest of your career.A good resume is one that tells just enough about you to make a potential employer know what you are looking for. It's important to put all of the right keywords in there as well. There are a lot of career coaches and online career coaches who can help you along with their other services. Find a good place to start.However, you don't need to have a great writer for your resume to be very useful. If you are the kind of person who can quickly write down what you need to get across and make it work, you c an go ahead and do so. Remember, even if you're a good writer, you should never hire an employee or get into a bad situation because they don't know what they're doing. The more people that make mistakes, the less likely it is that you're going to land the job that you deserve.In fact, this is something that many people end up doing during a job search. They are the people who want to be in the position of hiring and those who want to be in the position of choosing. The truth is, they are both in the same position at the same time. If you get hired on to a job then it will be for their position. Therefore, it's up to you to make sure that you're not taking a job in another department and let it go unnoticed.You have to make sure that you are always ready to be interviewed and you should always prepare yourself for your interview. This means that you will be meeting with potential employers and their representatives. Make sure that you have the proper things with you and that you're always on time.Resume writing for freshman is one of the best ways to get into college. If you can get a job in your field then it will definitely help you. One thing that you should do is keep the phone number of the person that you're interviewing with because the last thing you want is to be rejected by them because you didn't list your contact information on your resume.For college students, this is the first step in getting yourself on the right track. With a good resume, you're definitely headed to college. Just remember that college is where the real work starts.

How to Stop Procrastinating

How to Stop Procrastinating You have to hand it to the people who make up minor holidays: they know how to pick their dates. For example, today is Fight Procrastination Day, and if you’re reading this through one bleary eye while scratching your last bug bites of the season, you can see the wisdom in choosing today. Of course, your boss doesn’t care that you’d rather be sitting in a hammock, eating leftover BBQ, which means that you have to power through the urge to procrastinate and get to work. Here are a few tricks to help you do it: Put money on it. What if missing a deadline meant that you’d be forced to donate money to a charity you absolutely hated? StickK can make it happen. The process is simple: you select a goal, set the stakes, and pick a friend to referee. Fail to meet your self-defined commitment, and say goodbye to the cash. Read Next: 3 Ways to Deal with Toxic Coworkers “You can select other options and you don’t have to put in money, but c’mon, go big or go home!” writes Gregory Ciotti at Lifehacker. “Also, can you honestly think of a better way to get yourself to take action than an impending deadline that will send your hard-earned cash to an organization you despise? What if you knew that $50 was headed to a place like the Westboro Baptist Church if you don’t get that new wireframe/article/logo finished? I rest my case!” Of course, if you feel like you have enough apps in your life already, you can always do it on your own, although it still makes sense to get friends involved, if you want to make sure you’re not going to cheat. Harness the “Goal Looms Larger Effect.” Do you find yourself constantly putting off the smaller items on your to-do list, until the sight of all those seemingly meaningless tasks weighs you down and saps your motivation? Reframe those smaller items in the context of the larger goal, and you’ll feel more motivated to get them done. Read Next: Is Your Horrible Coworker Ruining Your Relationship? “This idea relates to the phenomenon known as the ‘Goal Looms Larger Effect,’” writes James Ullrich at Psychology Today. “Researchers have long since established that motivation to reach a goal increases the closer one actually gets to achieving it. This results from an unconscious action in our brain which removes blockages to our energy when we realize that a goal is indeed attainable and that our finite resources of focus and energy will likely not be wasted in pursuit of it.” Settle for good enough. “Perfection is the enemy,” Sheryl Sandberg says. And yet, if you care about your work, you want to get it rightâ€"right? The goal here is to remember that getting it right doesn’t mean getting it perfect. You don’t work in a vacuum, and your projects are not going to turn out differently in reality than they would if you had endless time and resources. Don’t wait for things to be perfect. Settle for close-to-perfect, and move on to the next. Use the “(10+2)*5” method. Sometimes, you just don’t have it in you to put your head down and work for a solid hour or so. That’s OK. Working in shorter sprints can be just as effective, provided that you string enough of these sprints together. Read Next: Top 5 High-Paying Jobs With Rising Salaries Years ago, at 43 Folders, Merlin Mann outlined his “(10+2)*5” procrastination hack. Basically: Work for 10 minutes without a break. No checking email, no noodling around on social media, no staring out the window. Just work. Take two minutes off to do whatever you want. Do this five times in a row. Work with yourself, not against yourself. If you’ve tried all these tricks, and nothing’s helping, it might be time to throw in the towel. Can’t afford to take the day off, or even skip out of the office for a 10-minute break? Switch projects. As they say, a change can be as good as a rest.