If you’ve been passed over for promotion, I can think of three good reasons why. Firstly, you have not proved you are good enough. Even if you are good enough, you still have to prove it. Second possible cause, someone else proves themselves to be better. They may not...

If you have a job for life, you’d better make sure it’s your passion, lest it become your poison. A job for life is more of a life sentence. Sure, it provides security, if that’s what you’re looking for. Yes, nice steady income, low risk, paying the bills. Mediocre...

Realists always proclaim you have to consider feasibility and look logically at things before you get too carried away. Can you name a single realist that has ever achieved anything remarkable? Yet if you are rash and care not for realism, you’re likely end face down...

Who is having a laugh at you right now? They say something, do something, that makes you mad. Do they do it on purpose? Surely not, they are just ignorant. Either way, you have a problem. For when they do something that gets you mad/angry/frustrated/sad, they have...

While walking with a new friend, she shared with me her dream to be a writer. I asked her, “What have you published?” Nothing. Not a single word out there in the gaze of critical eyes, in any form. Not even a tweet. As with so many dreamers, they just love to drift,...

It is vital to have escalation procedures in place. Natural to hit a problem and refer it to your boss. Easy to throw the issue to someone else to deal with. Yet whenever you escalate, you pass responsibility and control to others. You are not standing on your own two...