Starting at a new job is always stressful.  One of the reasons why it's so stressful is that organizatiosn don't do onboarding well as a rule.  Sometimes this is incompetence, and somtimes, sadly, it's by design. 

Here it is, our annual "Top 5" episode where we highlight five really amazing stories from the prior year.  If you like these articles, check out the rest from 2023 and other years.   - Also thanks so much to all those who supported us in 2023, we appreciate it!!

It's hard to get an unbiased sense of where we stand compared to others.  This show goes into one technique my brother used as child and one technique I use today.  In both cases, they helped us better understand the scope of the world and our place in it.  

The Law of Convenience is almost akin to a law of physics or nature that you can almost never get around.  Here is another example of how I ultimately walked away from something important to me, somethign I worked hard at, simply because of convenience was working against me. 

Some people spend a large part of their lives working in a job that their personality simply isn't a good fit for.  Yet, emotions like fear or career inertia keep them in that same type of job.  The first step out of that rut is to see that you aren't a good fit for the job you are doing.

There are so many things in life we can do, and sadly, life is finite.  So we can't get it all done, but we can certainly do a bunch.  The key is to turn "someday" into "now"!

Something unique happened during the pandemic.  Many women went from working and paying daycare, to being stay at home mom's and they realized, on the whole, their life got better.  Now Corporate America wants them back on the job.  Can they be wooed back?