A Beginner's Guide to Meditation Featured
Here's a great guide to starting up a meditation practice from scratch. Let this comprehensive guide for beginners show you the way...
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A Path to Positive Productivity Featured
Do you start each morning anxious about all of the things on your plate? Each of them swirling in your mind, leaving you too overwhelmed to actually accomplish any of them? What if there was a way to quickly and effectively write your to-do...
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Be the Most Interesting Person in the Room Featured
When I'm at a networking event, I tend to keep to myself and not talk to anyone (which totally defeats the purpose of being at a networking event). Don't be like me! Use this path to learn how to engage...
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Boost Your Everyday Effectiveness Featured
Do you consider yourself to be an effective person? Many of us could benefit from tweaking at least a few of our skills in order to become even more effective in our everyday lives. This is what we’ll be exploring...
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Buying Your First Home Featured
Buying your first home can be stressful: it's a weird, long process with lots of pitfalls and questions and signatures and documents and... (you get the picture). Sometimes, it's hard to know what's actually going on. This path features res...
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Career Leap: Pushing Beyond Your Bounds Featured
This is an all call for the serial fear mongers amongst us. Those of you who know you need to make a move, or take a leap, but fear has you in its awesome clutch. I challenge you, without judgement,...
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Career Resources: Preparing for your next role
Are you entering or re-entering the workforce? Looking to pivot to a new role or industry? Here are some fundamental resources to help prepare for your journey These series provides resources to help you get a job, or change to...
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Dare2Dream with Lefty Williams Featured
Native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Lefty has long known that anything worth having wouldn't come easy. He learned at an early age that there would be many days of hard work and sacrifice. He knew that the key to...
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Dealing with Other People's Emotions
Most people want to end conversations when someone cries or gets angry, but then you miss the opportunity to find solutions together. And, it’s likely you will make the person feel worse. It’s better to be compassionately silent until they...
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Empowering Women in the Workforce Featured
Feeling empowered is the result of committing to the work you do, inspiring those around you, and staying focused on your dreams - no matter how big. Empowered leaders cultivate empowerment in others by approaching challenges with courage, creativity,...
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Empowering Your Mind with Positive Psychology Featured
Twenty years ago when I struggled with depression, I had no idea about the tools I needed to stay mentally happy until my psychologist introduced me to them. Then I thought, “Why am I only hearing about this now?” We...
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Failing Forward…with Science Featured
We all experience failure, but scientists say that how we handle setbacks determines our future successes. These resources, curated from around the web, draw from the positive psychology movement; featured thinkers include Martin Seligman, Guy Winch,...
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Feedback: The Gift You Might Not Want but Receive Anyway Featured
Someone once told me, "Feedback is a gift." This may be true, but constructive criticism (even when it's well-intentioned) can often be hard to take. This path is part of my own learning journey -- I've gathered these resources to...
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Finding The Career You Were Meant For Featured
Finding a job can be one of the most stressful things we do. Unfortunately, many of us find jobs we don’t love, and are often afraid to make the leap to something else when we are in a place we...
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Finding Your Voice Featured
Author, social media influencer, and Catcat guest curator Najwa Zebian helps us navigate through the steps needed to find our voices. By uncovering our authentic selves and finding the right words, we're able to share our stories and build our...
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Forging Your Career Path: Tips for New Professionals Featured
Your first days as a new professional can be tough. This path has resources to help guide you through several aspects of this new phase of your life, including communication and personal branding.
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Getting Interpersonal: Building Relationships Featured
The resources in this learning path focus on the importance of relationship building in developing and strengthening interpersonal skills. Learn to build, reinforce, and energize workplace relationships to the benefit of your career, coworkers, and...
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How to Be *Pretty Intense* Featured
When Danica Patrick decides to pursue her interests, passions, or dreams - she goes all in. From her racing career to entrepreneurship, fitness, and nutrition, the energy and intensity she brings to each pursuit pays off - but she'll be...
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How to Make/Break/Keep a Habit Featured
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” [Aristotle - summation by author Will Durant] Habits - good or bad - are the qualities many people find the most difficult to change, and...
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How to Stay Safe Online Featured
The Internet can be a scary place. In this path, learners will be introduced to basic concepts of online safety and security. Common scams will also be reviewed.
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Learn the Basics of Spanish Featured
Spanish is one of the world’s leading and most widely spoken languages. Learning a second or third language is an investment in yourself. There is no better way to grow your skills and capabilities than by investing energy in a...
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Learning How to Learn Featured
In a world of constant change, the ability to acquire new skills and knowledge quickly and continually is critical to your success. This short path, which was inspired by the popular Coursera course "Learning How to Learn", can help you...
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Make Better Decisions Featured
"There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move." - Chess Grandmaster, Susan Polgar Life, like a game of chess, is purely the product of your decisions - some major *new job!? new car?*, some minor *sushi or veggie bu...
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Master the Art of Self-Confidence Featured
In order to achieve workplace success, personal satisfaction and personal achievement, competence is essential. But without confidence, competence will only take you so far. Lack of confidence and a low self-esteem are two of the major things that...
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Minding Your Manners: A Guide to Business Etiquette Featured
Your academic knowledge and skills may be spectacular, but do you have the social skills needed to be successful in the workplace? Professional etiquette is an unwritten code of conduct regarding the interactions among the members in a business...
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Navigating Your Career Featured
If there is one thing that school doesn’t teach you, it’s how to navigate your career properly. Instead, you’re left to rely on advice from your (well-meaning but often misguided) family members--and somehow decide which of the million career resources...
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Passion Lead Success
When developing a career plan, setting goals is a common success tool. Typically these goals are based on financial gain, but what if each professional goal spoke instead to your personal passions. Too often we have to decide between being...
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Power of Pause Featured
Many times in order for you to develop a healthy growth mindset and exceed within your career, you have to press 'Pause'. In the past there was a prevailing theme that presumed "doing more helps you succeed", but what if...
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Running on Empty - Avoid Empathy Exhaustion & Compassion Fatigue Featured
The capacity for empathy is an amazing trait we all share - and an incredibly important skill in any workplace. Practicing empathy means putting yourself in another person's shoes to better understand their situation, frustration, or needs; but we ...
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Shift Your Life
About the Curators Tracy Latz, M.D., M.S. (on left is an Integrative Psychiatrist, Multidimensional Healer and has served as an Associate Clinical Faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She...
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Soul Entrepreneurship
Soul=the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal Entrepreneurship= The activity of setting up a business.
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Stand Up to Bullying with Ian McKellen Featured
He is a cultural icon. His acting career spans almost six decades and a wide range of genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. He is recognized worldwide for his performances as the King in...
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Staying Stress-Free at the Office Featured
Stress is a natural part of life, but it doesn't have to ruin your day. Learn some strategies for addressing stress in the office and some tips for avoiding it altogether.
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Successfully Balancing Work and Life Featured
Life is a balancing act. There are only so many hours in the day and only so many opportunities to get things done. So, how do you manage to successfully juggle all of the things being thrown at you? Experts...
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Suffering From Burnout? Why It Matters & What to Do Featured
Burnout is getting a lot of focus lately as it seems like everyone is going 24/7. Gone are the days when jobs end when your shift is over, or the world can’t reach you after hours. Between smartphones keeping us...
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The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Featured
Famed author David Allen reframes basic productivity concepts and presents new tricks that might help you finally sort out all the to-do lists running through your head.
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The Importance of Resilience
What does it mean to be resilient? We have all heard the word before. Often times it's about kids - they are so resilient. Right? After we grow up, do we stop being resilient? I think we probably do but...
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The Power of Presence Featured
Showing up every day feeling great and ready to rock. Parts of the 6 Vital Skills to Catapult Your Career series with Pete Mockaitis.
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The Power of Serving Others Featured
Charity isn't just about making a donation - it's about making a difference.
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What to Do When Change Happens to You Featured
Change is inevitable; and often, out of your control - but you have a superpower - you control your response to change and all the uncertainty that accompanies it. Developing a healthy approach to change means focusing on the path...
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