Category: Motivation and Resiliency
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Have You Reached A Career Plateau? How to Regain Control
Have you paused lately to assess where your career is going, and whether you’re making progress or reached a plateau? Think about it. Plateaus are generally flat expanses of terrain,…
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Weekend Poll Results: Packing for Conferences
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: Packing for Conferences: Do You Travel Light,…
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Weekend Poll Results: Your Q1 Progress With 2016 Goals
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: How are you progressing with your 2016…
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Maintaining Your Sanity When Supervising Others
Anyone who’s supervised an even occasionally fractious staff team knows that keeping colleagues on track can consume an inordinate amount of your time, energy and focus … sometimes at the expense of…
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Becoming Exceptional: Establishing Vision and Direction
It can be difficult to be a proactive, rather than a reactive assistant, without a clear vision and sense of direction A few years ago, I was the new kid…
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From Resolutions to Goal Achievement: Building Capacities for Success During IYOTSA 2014
Have you made resolutions to avoid certain temptations, or achieve particular goals this year? Now that we’re into the second week of this new year, hands up if you’re among…
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Assistants As People of Influence
What’s around the corner for your career development, and how does the professional landscape as reported by the IAAP align with yours? Do you see your professional role as one…
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Luck
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realising…
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Knowledge
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. – Isaac Asimov
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Facts
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. – Mark Twain
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Opportunity
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
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Perspective
Keep your face to the sun, and you will never see the shadows. – Helen Keller
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Innovation and Generosity of Spirit: Bette Graham
Innovation: building a better mousetrap, a winged birdhouse or … ? :We’ve heard the saying, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door”, but…
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Problem Solving
We can not solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein
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Regrets
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Authenticity
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked. – Peter Guber
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Mistakes
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. – Phyllis Bottome
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Change
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Carl Bard