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Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

It’s hard to retrain a brain that has for years responded to external events in a very internalized way. A string of unfortunate events can cause us to fall down the rabbit hole of uncertainty and self-pity.

Live Your Life in Technicolor

Advice, Career

Feeling stuck in a rut? Maybe a new opportunity will help you see the world in technicolor.

The Problem with Procrastination: A Student’s Perspective

Interviews with the Experts

Procrastination will wiggle its way into your brain and convince you to push everything off, just a little bit. It can’t possibly hurt! Plus, you’ll bend over backward in order to justify it.

Are You the Office Cauliflower?

Career, Advice

When did we demand so much of a single vegetable? Are you the office cauliflower, trying to be everything to everyone, all of the time?

Are You Losing Traction?

Front and Center, Goals

What’s holding you back from getting where you most want to go?

The Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made and the One Thing they Have in Common

Advice

Many of our strengths could be used more strategically and efficiently if we’d just SLOW DOWN.

How to Tackle (and Thrive) through Conflict

Advice

Working through the conflict is the only way to move the story along. Are you up for the challenge?

To the Woman on the Boogie Board…

Humor, Keepin' It Real...

I see you struggling against the tide. You seem to be going backward. Rather than riding the waves in, the sea seems to be pulling you out, feet first.

Next Chapter with Rae Kauder: Your Job Does Not Define You

Next Chapter, Advice

Your job is WHAT you do. It is not, however, WHO YOU ARE.

It can feel that way, especially when you consider the hours we spend at work. So, how do you regain your sense of identity when you no longer do what you used to do?

Letting Go of What No Longer Serves You

Creativity, Goals

You can’t make space for what you can become if you’re still holding onto what you’re meant to shed.

Feeling Bad? Good!

Keepin' It Real...

It’s OK to not be OK. We don’t always have to pretend everything is fine because we’re worried other people won’t be fine if we admit that we’re not. Sometimes you just need to wallow in the muck for a bit before you get back to the messiness of life.

Why You Need to Set Boundaries

Advice, Humor

This is for all of you who turn yourselves upside down to serve others and feel bad saying no.