Motivational

Motivational

Financial Vital Signs: Your Year-End Money Health Guide

Annual physicals help us catch physical health issues early—but what about your financial health? Just like physicals, reviewing your money habits before the new year can save you from bigger financial problems down the line. “The end of the year is the perfect time for a reset because you can step back, reflect on your […]

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Should I Quit: A Journal to Help You Leave Your Toxic Job

For over 15 years, Mandy Tang gathered accolades. She worked in publishing, earned a master’s degree in business administration and dove into corporate America at American Express. She developed her professional skills at high-growth startups and even had a successful side gig as a career coach. Through it all, her career’s trajectory was predicated on

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What to Consider When Making a Will—and the Difference Between a Will and a Living Will

Last month, I was prepared for challenges at the Seafire Wellness Festival in Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. An ice bath was on the agenda and seemed like the ultimate test—a freezing plunge promising to push my physical and mental limits. But the real shock came during a financial wellness session. When the speaker

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If Raises Aren’t in the Budget for 2025, Consider These Other Rewarding Retention Tactics

Salary increase budgets at U.S. companies are projected to remain stable at 3.7% in 2025, up from 3.5% in 2024, according to the latest Salary Budget Planning Report from WTW. Many organizations are thriving without significant challenges in attracting or retaining employees, leveraging flexible work options, benefits and perks to keep their workforce happy. If

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End of Year Reflections: 10 Journal Prompts to Evaluate Personal Growth

Journaling is a meaningful exercise to help make sense of your emotions. Self-reflection enhances your self-awareness, which is necessary for personal growth. Writing about your thoughts and feelings can help transform your experiences into learning opportunities, while cultivating deeper gratitude and encouraging a more profound understanding of the events in your life. Journal Prompts to

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How to Lead, Think and Build Influence Like Malcolm Gladwell

He has been named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people. He has five New York Times bestsellers. But it wasn’t by accident. Malcolm Gladwell is intentionally leading the way on building influence, a topic he deconstructed for listeners in a recent LinkedIn workshop.  While many business owners could only dream of this type of

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Stress Management Techniques For Each DISC Personality Type

Every workplace team is like a melting pot of various backgrounds, experiences, strengths, weaknesses and personalities. It’s these differences that help you to become a well-rounded and successful cohort. But, these same dissimilarities can also cause friction among the group.  If you’re having trouble understanding why Ryan from marketing never speaks up in meetings or

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Bluesky Must Differentiate Itself From Other Social Media Platforms to Survive, Experts Warn

After the election, many Americans learned about a new social media platform taking hold—Bluesky. In early November, 1 million people joined Bluesky in a single day, and some experts connected the dots that disgruntled X users were fleeing from the changes Elon Musk had incorporated at X to try Bluesky as an alternative. But, after

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Nurse Practitioner Jessica Muñoz Started a Nonprofit To Raise Awareness of Youth Sex Trafficking

Jessica Muñoz was working as a nurse practitioner in Honolulu when she first learned American children were being bought and sold for sex. Kids were coming into the emergency room where she worked, but their stories “just didn’t line up,” she says. Often, they’d been written off as troublemakers or bad kids, but Muñoz realized

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