personal development

Before the Barre: My Pre- “Barre Bee Fit” Experience

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Thanks to our very own, Kovie Biakolo, for having the guts try out this week’s #MCGConnect chat sponsor- Barre Bee Fit!  Kovie is much more equipped for this type of… er, testing… than I am.  Today’s post is part 1 of Kovie’s 2 part series.  To win free BBF classes, join #MCGConnect chat tonight (Wed [...]

January 18, 2012 4 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

New Year Resolutions Professionals SHOULD Make

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What resolutions should you be making in the new year? When the calendar flipped to 2012, it ushered in a new year of potential and possibilities. As a job seeker looking to take the next step in your career, now is the time to make a resolution to turn the new year into a successful [...]

January 12, 2012 14 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Failing My Way to Success

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Thanks to Samara Zimmerman for today’s post on overcoming the fear of failure! Failure – curious word – seems so indistinct and feeble when it slips off the tongue. But its bitter sting is in that very vagueness that masks a word so powerful – because “failure,” “failing,” is truly in the eye of the beholder, and [...]

December 13, 2011 6 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Is “CEO’s Disease” Really a Good Thing for Your Business or Career?!

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I was watching a great Ted Talk given my Cameron Herhold (former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK) last night which mentioned that many successful CEO’s and Entrepreneurs have bi-polar disorder (manic depression).  In fact,  this phenomenon is so common that many business writers & bloggers refer to it as “CEO’s disease.”  This whole idea really surprised me, [...]

November 2, 2011 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Two Times When You Should Let Your Ambition Rest

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So you’ve landed the dream job or at least the first step to your dream job, then what? As an individual who went from grad school to grad school drop out to intern to copywriter and now editor in the span of a year, I have finally entered the industry I’ve wanted and yet Ambition, [...]

October 25, 2011 4 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

How to Build Community Online

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This is the fourth post in a series of 5 posts about blogging: why to start, how to start, how to get readers, how to build community and how to monetize your blog. The title of this post is a bit misleading. Read on and you’ll understand why. If there’s one person who I admire in social [...]

October 7, 2011 4 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

You Want to Leave Your Job and Do What?

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Today’s Guest Post is by, Dave Thomas In a day and age where the economy has been on life support in the eyes of some economists, why on earth would you want to quit your job to start you own business? Are you nuts? Have you lost your mind? Those are likely some of the [...]

August 23, 2011 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

What I Learned from My 50 Different Jobs

A Jill-of-All-Trades from a young age, I’ve had more than 50 jobs in my life – mainly because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, so I thought I’d test them all!I had serious angst about my “purpose” and wandered through these jobs hoping for a bolt of inspiration to hit me. I also [...]

August 16, 2011 9 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Glitter Factor: A Reader Challenge

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“All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone” – Tony Robbins  The last two posts I wrote on Ms. Career Girl chronicle leaving my job in the world of finance for life as a marketing manager at a start-up and balancing a busy life which was written during a period in which I was working [...]

July 6, 2011 7 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Do You Understand What Kind of Support YOU Need?

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By, Joanna Lindenbaum Take a minute and write down your top three fears, doubts, and concerns. Once you have them written down, you may notice that outside help could really assist you in overcoming each and every one of those fears, right? The trick lies in not just asking for help but delegating responsibility within your [...]

June 28, 2011 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →