Forging Your Career Path: Tips for New Professionals
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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Suffering From Burnout? Why It Matters & What to Do
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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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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Be the Most Interesting Person in the Room
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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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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A Path to Positive Productivity
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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Dare2Dream with Lefty Williams
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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Finding The Career You Were Meant For
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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Learn the Basics of Spanish
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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The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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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Empowering Women in the Workforce
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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Successfully Balancing Work and Life
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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Buying Your First Home
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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Navigating Your Career
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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Your Guide to Building an Awesome Personal Brand
Who are you? What do you stand for? What do you bring to the table? These questions, and more, can all be answered by a carefully-crafted personal brand. Your personal brand is the unique combination of skills and experience that...
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The Power of Serving Others
Charity isn't just about making a donation - it's about making a difference.
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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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The Power of Presence
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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What to Do When Change Happens to You
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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Empowering Your Mind with Positive Psychology
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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Make Better Decisions
"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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Running on Empty - Avoid Empathy Exhaustion & Compassion Fatigue
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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Finding Your Voice
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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Master the Art of Self-Confidence
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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Failing Forward…with Science
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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How to Make/Break/Keep a Habit
“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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Boost Your Everyday Effectiveness
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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Getting Interpersonal: Building Relationships
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 Stay Safe Online
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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A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
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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Minding Your Manners: A Guide to Business Etiquette
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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Learning How to Learn
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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