Dondi Scumaci is an international speaker, author and expert in professional and personal development. Her best-selling book Designed for Success: The 10 Commandments for Women in the Workplace empowers women to be more effective, successful and satisfied at work. In Ready, Set…Grow! Scumaci expands on the mentoring theme, offering a blueprint to rediscover your passion, overcome your fears, and create the life you’ve always wanted...
Have you ever gotton lost and start to panic? This being lost may be physically where you don't know how to get home again, or it may be lost in your life, feeling unsure of where to go to next, or how to move forward. The natural tendency when this happens is to run faster, circle around, get flustered as you try and find your way...
From time to time, each of us will find ourselves in a rut of boredom and disinterest. We seem to lose our zest for life and feel tired, irritable and unmotivated. We want to hide under the covers rather than face the day. Perhaps you're feeling overwhelmed by work, or sad about the pain and suffering in the world, or just bored with the routine of your daily life...
Inertia. Even the word sounds like a disease. No, it isn't literally a disease but it is one figuratively. Simply defined inertia is: resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change. For those of us who are stuck in a job we hate, inertia can sap our energy, drain our lives of joy, and make us miserable to be around...
If you want to move your life ahead, you should replace the negatives in your life with positives. This article will show you how to take the negative influences in your life away and replace them with positives, so you will have increases in morale, and productivity. Focus on the positive for success and peak performance...
An essay on self improvementIn order to understand our selves, we must first understand self improvement. There are many factors which influenced the development of self improvement. Indispensable to homosapians today, its influence on western cinema has not been given proper recognition. Crossing many cultural barriers it still draws remarks such as 'I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole' and 'i'd rather eat wasps' from those most reliant on technology, whom I can say no more about due to legal restrictions...
Many of people have much trouble trying to motivate teenagers - ask any parent or any school teacher. Numerous teenagers just seem to not care - they are without enthusiasm, directionless. They do not see the reason for anything nor the purpose of doing anything except hanging about with their mates...
What would happen in your office if the manager announced that the company was going to introduce some team building exercises? Twenty years ago in the UK, just a couple of American companies and a few Japanese firms went in for it - the rest of us made fun of them. Ten years ago, a friend of mine was in a company that encouraged chanting and singing before beginning working each morning...
To-do lists are magic. According to experts, the second you write something down, you’re infinitely more likely to actually make it happen than if you rely on your (sometimes faulty) memory. Some of the greatest thinkers – and achievers! – of our time have been inveterate list-makers, including: Benjamin Franklin Leonardo Davinci Thomas Jefferson Martha Stewart Lists work...
It’s no secret that college students have severe schedules, even in the summer. Between juggling classes, studying, assignments, internships, working a part time job, and making time for friends, it’s predictable that your energy levels are low. Although most students resort to caffeine to remedy their lack of energy, there are viable alternatives...
