Posts Tagged ‘Career’
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
!--paging_filter--pMost of us have been touched by the recession in some way./p
pIn the past year, wersquo;ve seen job loss, savings shrivel, foreclosures, and severe cuts in social services. But wersquo;ve also witnessed the ingenuity and generosity of the human spirit, exemplified in these stories./p
p a href=http://www.guideposts.com/story/snowplowers-collect-food-pantry-items target=_blankstrongPlowing for the Pantry/strong/a/p
pFife Lake, Michigan gets piles of snow in the winter, but because of Dave Browning, its church pantries also got piles of food./p
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Tags: Career, Money, Overcoming Obstacles, Positive People, Work amp; Career
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
!--paging_filter--pThe Swine Flu is not the only thing you catch at work. Turns out you are just as likely to catch someonersquo;s bad mood and negative attitude./p
pYes, the latest research demonstrates what wersquo;ve all known to be true, that emotions are contagious. Researchers call them emotional contagions and they impact our work environments, productivity, teamwork, service and performance in significant and profound ways./p
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Tags: Being Positive, Career, Experts, Positive People, Work amp; Career
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
!--paging_filter--pMany of us, I think, can look back and recall certain specific moments in our lives that take on greater importance the longer we live./p
pquot;The past has a different pattern,quot; T.S. Eliot wrote, when viewed from each of our changing perspectives./p
pFor me, one of those moments occurred when I was 17 years old. I was a high school senior in Louisville, Kentucky, representing my state in the 1963 a target=_blank href=http://www.guideposts.com/story/diane-sawyer-finds-faithAmerica's Junior Miss competition/a in Mobile, Alabama./p
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Tags: Career, Celebrities, Positive People, Work amp; Career
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
!–paging_filter–pWhen I heard the news that I was being laid off, I felt like Irsquo;d been punched in the gut. My face grew hot, my stomach tightened, and I felt a little unsteady on my feet./p
pSo far, unemployment felt awful./p
pOver the next few days, the knot in my stomach slowly unwound itself. I woke up in the morning and remembered, ldquo;I donrsquo;t have to rush to any meetings. I donrsquo;t have to commute. I donrsquo;t have to drink office coffee!rdquo;/p
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Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
Tags: Career, healthy habits, Positive People
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
I was recently on a plane to somewhere when Leonard told me about a time when his life was going nowhere.
He told me how six months earlier, at the age of 54, he lost his job at a Fortune 500 company. He thought his life and business career were finished. No one is going to hire a 54-year-old sales professional, he frequently told himself. Each day he grew more fearful, pessimistic and depressed.
Then one day while taking a walk of sadness along the beach he thought of his 21-year-old son and it occurred to him…
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Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
Tags: Being Positive, Career, Experts, Positive People
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
I'm a visual artist, but it's words that have brought me the most attention.
Words—like the ones in the title to this story—that I chalk onto New York City sidewalks, from the tough Spanish Harlem neighborhood I was raised in, to SoHo, with its trendy galleries.
And words I speak to schoolkids. I talk to them about the power of believing in themselves. Then I tell them about my own journey.
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Tags: Attitude & Outlook, Business Leaders, Career, Celebrities, Discovering Yourself, Giving Back, Positive People, Pursuing the Dream, Successfully Single
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
!--paging_filter--pIt was a September evening in 1964, only hours after my husband Warren's funeral./p
pWhen the children went to bed, I sat in the tall fireside chair that had at one time graced the parlor of my mother's childhood home. I had to be alone. I was beyond tears./p
pemThis is the rest of my life,/em I thought. I knew how much the children would miss Warr. My heart ached for them. I knew about all the birthdays and holidays and graduations when they'd see other kids celebrating with their fathers. I knew because I'd been there./p
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Tags: A Loved One, Across the Generations, Being Positive, Career, Celebrities, Family, Family Life, Grieving, Healthy Mind, Inspirational Voices, Overcoming Obstacles, Positive People, Work amp; Career
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