7 Tips On How To Get A Job Abroad

If you’re thinking of moving overseas to widen your career prospects, we’ve gathered the best advice from the experts

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Often companies in places like south-east Asia are very happy to look at people who are willing to relocate their job abroad. Photograph: Alamy

Start by teaching English

Joe Hallwood, co-founder of Tefl Org UK: “Get a job teaching English, then you are in the country and able to arrange meetings and visit companies. You will also get a good idea of the place and whether it’s right for you.”

Use social media

Ravi Soni, careers adviser at the National Careers Service: “Looking for jobs abroad can be similar to looking for jobs in the UK. The internet has lots of resources to help people find work abroad. A good place to look is the prospects website, which has country profiles with a wealth of information about working abroad. There are ways offline too – network with family, friends and work colleagues to find out if they know of anyone who works abroad.”

Rebecca Grigg, corporate recruitment manager for Hilton Worldwide: “Having an up-to-date LinkedIn profile is key. Many employers recruit directly via LinkedIn and there are also a number of industry specific groups that you can join – this will assist you greatly with networking.”

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Network effectively

Ryan Kahn, founder of The Hired Group, star of Hired on MTV and author of Hired! The Guide for the Recent Grad: “Create a list of the top 20 companies you’re most interested in, and pursue them relentlessly. Then use social media and networking to acquire a contact at each. As a result, you’ll know 20 people at the 20 companies you are most interested in working for.”

Dasha Amrom, founder and managing director at Career Coaching Ventures: “Get to know as many people in your field in different countries as you can, arrange informal Skype chats to ask them questions about their work and company. Get to know them so that when a position opens up, they can recommend you within their organisation. Applying online will probably yield fewer results if you don’t adopt an effective networking strategy simultaneously.”

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Get relevant work experience

Matt Gould, HR director Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and general counsel for Telstra: “Work experience always helps; it shows an employer that you understand what work is about. I think trying to get your first job in another country is doubly hard, and trying to get visas without experience can often be a challenge. If you are a good candidate with the right skills, then your application will be considered, despite not yet living in the country. Often companies in south-east Asia are very happy to look at those who may be willing to relocate.”

You don’t necessarily need a degree

Joe Hallwood: “You don’t need one, but it is easier to find work with a degree and you won’t have the same choice as a degree-holder. In some countries, a degree is needed for a visa, for example in China, but in Europe, a degree isn’t entirely necessary.”

Internships are a great way to get your foot in the door

Ryan Kahn: “Internships are popular and a great way to get your foot in the door. Since internships are often entry-level positions, if you’re a graduate, you may want to check with your careers service at your university to see if they have any alumni or contacts to help you make introductions for securing an internship.”

Age shouldn’t be a barrier

Matt Gould: “If you are willing and able to relocate, then age shouldn’t be an issue. It is about experience, passion and drive.”

Dasha Amrom: “Age could be a factor (although of course it shouldn’t be), so make sure you create a strong case as to why you are looking for this change now and what you can bring to a particular role.”

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4 Ways Social Media Drives Business Development | You Should Know

 Social media is so powerful to accelerate the relationship-building process.

http://mashable.com/2015/01/15/social-media-business-development/Relationships have always been at the core of business development. In today’s digital world, social media can accelerate the relationship-building process. An influx of social media over the past decade from Facebook to LinkedIn has enhanced the way we communicate with potential business partners, leading to quicker connections and serving as our primary method of research when looking to establish relationships.

Nine times out of 10, the person in charge of business development already has an idea of the kind of company they want to partner with for a particular initiative. Traditionally, their next step in forging an initial connection would be to cold call or email the company, and to build a rapport from there. Social media fast-tracks this process. We’re now able to find precisely the best person to contact, determine if we have any mutual connections, understand their background (as well as the company’s) and get a sense of the different players within a company — all before we have a single conversation.

Let’s take a look at a few ways we can utilize the information available on social media to enhance biz dev practices, and move the needle for initiatives and partnerships across all industries.

1. Think of social media as a lens

Social media provides the opportunity to see what potential partners, competitors and customers are doing firsthand. A major asset in business development research, social media is a concrete way to see how companies are performing within their respective ecosystems — which can shed light into possible ways of working together (or reasons to not). At the same time, potential partners are certainly leveraging social media as a lens in their own research. Make sure to position yourself and your company as industry experts by sharing thought-provoking content on your accounts, and highlighting recent successes or milestones.

2. Adjust messaging across social channels

Every social network has a different flavor — the way people behave and connect across channels varies. Since business initiatives undoubtedly span across many social media platforms, it’s important to adjust accordingly. For instance, at Bitly we leverage our core assets on Twitter and Facebook differently. On Twitter, we promote ongoing marketing campaigns, share curated content and direct customer service requests to support. We use Facebook for larger marketing initiatives and to showcase company culture and resources. There’s no universal, one-size-fits-all guide to social media — so be flexible!

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3. Leverage employee relationships

If you are looking to connect with someone at a certain company, always check to see if anyone at your organization has a pre-established relationship with that person. Social media channels like LinkedIn make it very easy to see mutual connections. Whether you ask your colleague to make an introduction or publicize the initiative via their own account, a mutual connection is an automatic leg-up in the game of business development.

SEE ALSO: Learn how you can start to meet up new people in social networking clubs in Facebook

4. Use social media as an additional touch point

Social media is not the only key to business development success, but it serves as an important touch point and addition to traditional practices. For example, we have all inevitably sent an email or voicemail to a business prospect that went unanswered. It’s natural for people to be so busy that they gloss over or forget about an inquiry. However, now it’s a standard practice to follow up separately via LinkedIn or other digital avenues, leading to additional opportunities to build a rapport with potential partners.

On or offline, the most fundamental element of business development will always be strong relationships. At the end of the day, what’s most important is that you are partnering with a company or person that has a good reputation, will do great things and can market an initiative collaboratively to significant traction. Social media is an incredible starting block — just think of it as a means for old-fashioned relationship building, but for today’s increasingly connected world.

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25 Business and Life Lessons I’ve Learned Since My Mother’s Death

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One of the most trying times of my life happened six years ago when my mother lost her courageous battle with Stage IV colon and liver cancer six years ago in November.

I’ve had a lot of time since then to grieve and reflect on the beauty as well as the fragility of life. I believe people have the best breakthroughs in life when they are forced to break down, at least that’s what happened to me. Below is a list of things that I’ve learned since her death and I hope it can help you, too.

1. Listen to mentors of the past.

Make it practice every day to use your commute time as learning time. When I moved to San Diego six years ago, I started doing this and my life drastically improved. Every day I listen to recordings of motivational speakers such as Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn and others on my commute to work.

2. Stretch yourself.

Don’t set goals just for the sake of having them. Set goals that will stretch who you are as a person. Consider the question “What type of person must I become to achieve all that I want?” Stretch goals are essential because what you become in life helps you achieve further.

When you work 10 times harder on yourself, you’ll see phenomenal growth in your life. By taking the time to work on yourself now, you will reap benefits later. If you do what other people aren’t willing to do now, you will enjoy what people cannot even fathom later.

Decide the future you want. Whatever it is that you want, see yourself already in possession of it. Humans are the only life form that can change the course of their life in an instant. If you want success, you can obtain it. You have to believe that what you want is possible for you and that it’s already yours.

3. Be grateful.

Live a life full of gratitude. Every day I am grateful for the time I was able to spend with my mother. I am also grateful for the pain that followed her death because it taught me a lot about my resiliency and compassion. Be grateful not just for the good stuff but learn to grow from the lessons arising from the bad things that happen.

4. Value experience.

Treat experience like a rare jewel of exquisite value. Use what you learned in the past and invest it for your future. Experience, like money, can be very beneficial if you do not squander it but rather put it to good use. Let it serve you. Don’t be a servant to it.

5. Invest in personal development.

Never begrudge the money you spend on yourself for self-development. Don’t miss out on the class, the conference or the seminar. What price can be put on your personal growth? None. It’s priceless.

When I moved to San Diego, I began learning Portuguese. I’m still not as fluent as I want to be, but paying for lessons and learning this new skill really helped my mindset. When you move out of your comfort zone, new avenues of opportunity start opening up for you.

6. Be a problem solver.

When you invest in life by helping another person, your problems seem to disappear. I learned that while I was in deep pain after my mom’s death. It was through helping other people that I could get my mind off my grief and this slowly helped me heal. What problem can you solve for someone else that may inadvertently help you?

7. Become attractive.

To attain all that you want in life, you must become attractive. I’m not talking about physical beauty but about the beauty that you possess inside. For things to change in your life, you have to change. Success is something you attract by becoming an attractive person. It’s not something that you pursue because what you pursue always eludes you like a butterfly.

8. Show kindness to others.

Be polite to everyone you meet. Just make up your mind to be kind even to strangers. When you walk out a door, hold it open for the person behind you. Display good manners. Treat people the way you want to be treated.

9. Be a friend.

The greatest wealth of all time is friends. They know all about you and still like you. Joys are doubled and sorrows cut in half when you share them with a friend.

Be the kind of friend you want. Spend time with your friends. Value them. Treasure them. Make time for them. Widen out your circle of friendships. I have great friends who are younger than me, my age and older than me. Don’t go looking for a friend. Be one.

10. Stay in touch.

Sometimes months or even years may go by without your realizing that you haven’t kept up with close friends and family. When you lose a loved one, you begin to know all too well the importance of relationships. Make a list of 10 people you haven’t spoken to in a while. Call or write them. It really does make a difference.

11. Embrace the cycle of life.

After spring comes summer and after summer comes fall. It’s been that way since the beginning of time. You can also use the seasons as metaphors for life.

After good times, there will be bad times, but then good times will come again and so forth. When someone dies, a new life will be born. Life will always be a mixture of opportunity and difficulty. Since you can’t change this, you must learn to embrace it.

12. Be vulnerable.

Most people spend their entire lives hiding who they really are from others. The only way to really live authentically is to connect with others. Be open, honest and vulnerable. When you share your struggles, you give permission to others to do the same.

13. Embrace hardship.

Happiness or joy does not come from the things you possess. It comes from the substance of who you are. That substance is made up of your experiences in life. A pearl is created by the irritation of a grain of sand. When you experience conflict, adversity or irritations, they often create hidden pearls.

14. Forgive someone.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing because you release the hurt and pain that you carry within you. It’s like a huge weight that’s lifted from your life. Don’t live your life in the past. Rather use it as a catalyst to make your life better. To truly forgive someone, you must release the person from his or her responsibility for the hurt caused you. Forgiveness is a choice.

15. Start a podcast.

The best way to move of your comfort zone is by trying something new. Starting a podcast was very scary for me; that’s why I knew I had to do it. When you stretch yourself, you become a new person with new skills. Those new skills can only help you later in life.

16. Take action.

Too many people wait until everything is just right before venturing out. Stop waiting. Take action now. Send out what you have into the world and then constantly improve upon it. Everything you do is a work in progress. So don’t procrastinate. Get started.

17. Start a 21-day challenge.

Experts say that it takes 21 days to form a habit. So make a list of some of the things you want to start implementing in life. Narrow it down and challenge yourself to stick with it for 21 days. You’ll be amazed by how awesome you’ll feel after you accomplish it.

18. Take to lunch people you admire.

A great way to acquire a mentor is to invite someone to have lunch — on you. Make a list of 10 people you want to get to know better. Each time you’ll be amazed at how much the other person will enjoy this. People love to talk about themselves and their accomplishments. This is a great way to get them to do it.

19. Banish toxicity.

When I stopped spending time with toxic people, my life improved beyond measure. Toxic people bring you down and you can’t flourish with them in your life. Make a list of these people. Stop associating with them or at least limit the time spent with them if the former isn’t possible.

20. Say I love you every day.

The word love is used for so many different things. People love their cars, homes, cities and even their clothes. But the kind of love I’m referring to is the unconditional love for your family and dear friends. Rarely do people say I love you every day to those they love. I learned that this is essential to say every day because you never know what tomorrow will hold.

21. Don’t be in such a hurry.

Don’t spend your life chasing after something. Slow down. Cherish what you have. Savor the goodness of life. Wherever you are, be there, fully.

22. Write it down.

Keep a list of your accomplishments. I like to keep things in a journal and I look at it whenever I need a pick-me-up. Writing can be therapeutic and when you review the major milestones you’ve reached, you’ll know that if you did those things, you can do so much more.

23. Recover quickly.

Losing a loved one is devastating and each person grieves differently. There is no timetable for this pain. What I’ve learned is that with all adversity, it’s best to recover as quickly as possible. Don’t stay in a saddened state one minute longer than you have to. Don’t let things affect you so long that you’re not able to recover.

24. Take care of yourself.

When you go on an airplane, the flight attendant says to first secure your own mask before you help others. You can’t help others if you neglect yourself. Take care of you first so you will be able care for others.

25. Smile frequently. Dance often.

A smile is the only circle that can make things straight. Be cautious of your face when you interact with people. A smile is a simple gift that you can give to others. Be generous with it.

My mother loved to dance and that’s why I love dancing. Thank you, Mom. I really miss you. Read more…

Source: entrepreneur.com | Author: Meiko Patton

The Most Important Hour of Your Life

 

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An executive called me up a few months ago in existential pain. He had spent the last several years pursuing a career path he now admitted was not right for him. He had overstayed his time building a software company when he really wanted to be teaching and writing. An optimist by nature, it had surprised him to find how off track he had become without ever intending it. Almost as concerning as being off track was the realization that it had happened without any deliberate choice on his part. How was this possible? Why do otherwise smart people end up strategically adrift? And what can we do about it?

It’s not hard to see how this happens. It is as if the world has conspired to keep us perpetually distracted, addicted even, to the latest update regardless of its importance. On my worst days I wonder if my tombstone will read: “He checked email.” I am not alone.

TIME magazine recently reported that, on average, we check our phones 110 times a day. At the highest levels people check some 900 times a day.

Harris Interactive recently conducted research for Everest College that found 83 percent of Americans are stressed by at least one aspect of their work—that’s up 10 percent from the year before.

The New York Times recently published the results of a survey of 12,000 workers worldwide that found many lacked a fulfilling workplace. The most striking finding, to me, was that 70 percent of the workers felt they did not have “Regular time for creative or strategic thinking.”

The effect of this goes far beyond feeling stressed. When we are constantly taxed by the trivial we don’t have the space to think. We can end up getting lost and wasting years going in the wrong direction.

The German psychologist Jan Souman sheds some interesting insight on the problem. As part of a research project he took participants to the Sahara Desert and instructed them to walk in a straight line. It sounds simple but it turned out to be complicated: “[Some] of them walked on a cloudy day, with the sun was hidden behind the clouds [and with no reference points in view]. … [They] all walked in circles, with [several] of them repeatedly crossing their own path without noticing it.” Other participants did much better. They walked while the sun was shining, with faraway reference points in view. “These … followed an almost perfectly straight course.” In other words, if we can identify what is most essential and keep our eyes fixed on that it can help us from getting too far adrift.

This research came into focus for me a few days ago when I heard from my friend Enric Sala. Enric has applied essentialism to creating a meaningful career. He gave up a good post at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in California to pursue an even more meaningful role at National Geographic. Then once he was there he continued to negotiate his way to what he felt was the best and highest use of him: to be an Explorer-in-Residence. He now travels to the most pristine oceans in the world in an effort to protect these areas as National Parks. He and his team have already secured areas the size of Alaska from being damaged.

When he reached out to me it wasn’t to tell me about his career. He told me he had been diagnosed with cancer of the kidney. He has recently had a successful surgery so he looks in the clear for now. But the experience challenged him to look with great urgency to what he will do with what remains of his “one wild and precious life.”

The questions he asked himself don’t take a long time to answer. An hour may be enough. But they have the power to improve the quality of every other hour of your life. Here are the questions:

Step 1: If possible get out into nature where you can feel the natural pace of the earth and not the hyperactive and inhumane pace of modern life.

Step 2: Write down the question “What would I do if I only had a week left to live?” and take 10 minutes to write down your answer.

Step 3: Write down the question, “What would I do if I only had a month left to live?” and take 10 minutes to write down your answer.

Step 4: Write down the question, “What would I do if I only had a year left to live?” and take 10 minutes to write down your answer.

Step 5: Write down the question, “What would I do if I only had five years left to live?” and take 10 minutes to write down your answer.

Step 6: Write down the question, “What would I do if I only had a life left to live?” and take 10 minutes to write down your answer.

Step 7: Finally, take 10 minutes to reread all of your answers while asking yourself, “How can I design my routine this week to more closely align with these answers?”

Life today is fast and full of opportunity. The complication is we think we have to do everything. The implication of this is we end up being pulled into endless distractions without pausing to really think. My position is we can make a different choice. We can discern what is really essential. We can design a life that really matters. Read more…

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5 Reasons Why Most Don’t Become Wealthy

Are you holding yourself back from your financial freedom?

“Why is it that people don’t become wealthy?”  In a country like ours, with the opportunities that we have, why is it that so few people retire financially independent?  And I eventually found the answers. Here are what I consider to be the five reasons why people don’t become wealthy.

Who Me?

First, at the top of the list, is that it never occurs to them.  The average person has grown up in a family where he has never met or known anyone who was wealthy.  He goes to school and socializes with people who are not wealthy.  He works with people who are not wealthy.  He has a reference group or a social circle outside of work who are not wealthy. He has no role models who are wealthy. If this has happened to you throughout your formative years, up to the age of twenty, you can grow up and become a fully mature adult in our society, and it may never occur to you that it’s just as possible for you to become wealthy as for anyone else.

This is why people who grow up in homes where their parents are wealthy are much more likely to become wealthy as adults then people who grew up in homes where their parents are not.  So the first reason why people don’t become wealthy is it never occurs to them that it is possible for them.  And of course, if it never occurs to them, then they never take any of the steps necessary to make it a reality.

Make a Decision!

The second reason that people don’t become wealthy is that they never decide to.  Even if a person reads a book, attends a lecture, or associates with people who are financially successful, nothing changes until he makes a decision to do something different. Even if it occurs to a person that he could become wealthy if he just did certain things in a specific way, if he doesn’t decide to take the first step, he ends up staying as he is.If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don’t decide to be successful. They never make a firm, unequivocal commitment or definite decision that they are going to become wealthy. They mean to, and they intend to, and they hope to and they’re going to, someday. They  wish and hope and pray that they will make a lot of money, but they never decide, “I am going to do it!” This decision is an essential first step to becoming financially independent.

 

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Maybe Tomorrow

The third reason that people don’t become wealthy is procrastination.  People always have a good reason not to begin doing what they know they need to do to achieve financial independence.  It is always the wrong month, the wrong season, or the wrong year.  Business conditions in their industry are no good, or they may be too good. The market isn’t right. They may have to take a risk, or give up their security. Maybe next year.

There always seems to be a reason to procrastinate. As a result, they keep putting it off, month by month, year by year, until it’s too late.  Even if it has occurred to a person that they can become wealthy, and they have made a decision to change, procrastination will push all their plans into the indefinite future.

Pay the Price

The fourth reason that people retire poor is what economists call the inability to delay gratification.  The great majority of people have an irresistible temptation to spend every single penny they make and whatever else they can borrow or buy on credit.  If you cannot delay gratification, and discipline yourself to refrain from spending everything you make, you cannot become wealthy. If you cannot practice budgeting as a lifelong habit, it will be impossible for you to achieve financial independence. As W.Clement Stone said, “If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.”

Take the Long View

The fifth reason that people retire poor is perhaps as important, if not more important, than all the others. It islack of time perspective.  In a longitudinal study conducted by Dr Edward Banfield at Harvard University in the 1950s and published in 1964 as The Unheavenly City, he studied the reasons for upward socio-economic mobility.  He wanted to know how you could predict whether an individual or a family was going to move upward one or more socio-economic groupings and be wealthier in the next generation than they were this generation.

All his research brought him to a single factor that he concluded was more accurate than any other in predicting success in America. They called it time perspective.  This was defined as the amount of time that you take into consideration when planning your day-to-day activities and when making important decisions in your life.  Time perspective referred to how far you projected into the future when you decided what you were going to do or not do in the present.

An example of long time perspective is the common habit of upper class families in England to register their children at Oxford or Cambridge as soon as the child is born, even though he or she will not be attending for eighteen or nineteen years. This is long time perspective in action.  The young couple that begins putting $50 dollars a month aside in a scholarship fund so that their newborn child can go to the college or university of his or her choice is a couple with long time perspective. They are willing to sacrifice in the short term to assure better results and outcomes in the long term. People with long time perspective almost invariably move up economically in the course of their lifetimes.

 

Watch this video to learn the five common mistakes that prevent people from becoming wealthy and achieving financial success.

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Are You Comfortable? Heres Why You Shouldnt Be.

 

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Right now as you read this how comfortable are you?

I don’t mean the “I’ve got on my favorite sweater, my coffee cup is full and I’ve had a good night of sleep” kind of comfortable. I mean how much of your daily activities are within your comfort zone?

More specifically how much of what you have planned for today, tomorrow and this week makes you a little uneasy?

Or how much of what you have planned makes you feel like you’re standing on the edge of a 50ft rocky cliff about to jump in the water below?

Let’s get a little mathematical up in here. On a percentage basis how comfortable do you feel right now? Meaning are you 90% comfortable with your next seven days, or maybe 80%, or 50%.

I hope that status bar on your forehead is right around 20%…

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Be Comfortable

First, if you are over 20% comfortable there should be alarm bells going off inside your head. They should be warning you that you’re not pushing yourself beyond your limits.

Second, and let’s stay with the percentage analogy. Let’s say 80% of what you do in a given week is well within your comfort level. That’s probably 80% of stuff you could do in your sleep, the type of stuff you’ve mastered or at least got somewhat proficient executing.

If you continue in the 80%+ comfort zone you can pretty much predict this weeks outcome. It will be most likely be what they were last week. So is that really what you want? Is that really the success you’re striving for? If so, great keep on truckin.

But Let’s Look at the Different Outcomes

Let’s say you want more, you want to push your limits, and you want truly great success. Those goals you’ve written down or thought about late at night really are what you want.

What would your life look like if that was flipped? What if 80% of the stuff you had planned for the week was out of your comfort zone and you had no idea how you were going to do it? Are you up for that challenge?

What would that outcome look like? Would it bring you to greater heights than where you are right now? Or do you have no idea where you would end up after a week of pushing yourself to the max? Maybe that scares you even more.

Usually This is Where People Get Scared

Most people avoid stepping out of their comfort zone and those are the people that miss creating massive results.

For a long time I had this issue. I didn’t sit down at the beginning of the week (or look at the next few years) and ask what can I do that will scare the heck out of me? I didn’t ask what goal I can have right now that I have no clue on how I’m going to accomplish.

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How to Be Productive and Still Have a Fun Weekend

 

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We would all like to have relaxing weekends, full of leisurely meals and visits with friends.  But our busy schedule during the week rarely allow us to have 48 hours of fun to recharge.

Here are some suggestions on how you get have fun, get re-charge and be productive during the weekend.

Get your personal priorities straight.
If you love soccer and do want to watch the playoffs, that’s a great use of your time. But if you are only watching because there’s nothing better to do why not map out your weekend several days in advance. Have you seen your friends in a while? Perhaps you should invite them for an afternoon cookout or go for a jog.

Be clear on your professional goals.
It is great that you are working seven days a week because you love what you do. But if the weekends is just another work day, your family won’t be pleased if you spent it plugging at your laptop. Identify what success will look like and when you can feel justified closing your computer and enjoying the rest of the day.

Go for the “four-way win.”
Wharton School professor Stew Friedman identifies four key spheres of life: family, work, friends and community and health (mental and spiritual). While you only have so much time in the weekend and you can’t do it all. What if you can combine activities and fit more in. What if you want to work out and how about Invite your husband or wife to join you? If you need to attend an event for the charity you support, how about getting your friends involved? This way, ou can maximize the impact and socialize with them.

By being strategic about how you invest your time over the weekend, you’ll feel great every Sunday evening as you get ready for the week ahead.

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22 Killer Personal Development Resources You’re Missing Out On

 

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/22-killer-personal-development-resources.htmlYouve got the personal development itch once again. So you go to Google or your favorite personal development blogs. Maybe if you still havent found what youre looking for you try searching for a Youtube video or ask your Facebook friends if they know of any good sites. Read more…

7 resources to help you land your dream job

 

http://mashable.com/2014/11/15/resources-dream-job/Whatever your lofty aspirations, someone else’s goal is to help make them come true: A number of startups are embarking on initiatives to help job seekers find their dream careers and master the art of work/life balance. The point of VisualCV is to streamline the process of creating a resume that’s a fit for whatever type of job you’re seeking, from both a design and content perspective. Users can change the visual layout of their resumes with the click of a button, and the platform automatically formats information to adjust to each template. Read more…

MindMup: An easy-to-use, productive mind mapping application

 

http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/mindmup-video-review/MindMup is a free Google Chrome extension that enables you to create, edit and publish mind maps. Im normally not crazy about browser extensions, but MindMup does a lot of things right, which I outline in my video review of it. This browser-based mind mapping tool is simple and fast, and makes excellent use of keyboard shortcuts, so you can capture your ideas quickly. Read more…