Advancing in your career can be frustrating and exhausting. Unfortunately, just doing a good job isn’t going to get you noticed and accelerate your career. We live in a world now of having to constantly prove ourselves and it definitely doesn’t stop when it comes to our job performance. We have to constantly think of…
5 Secrets to Accelerate Your Career
Why We’re Waiting to Have Children
I’m a recent newlywed. So as you can imagine, one of the questions we get asked a lot nowadays is when we plan to have children. It’s a question I find almost taboo in this day and age as so many couples struggle with fertility and don’t have an answer to give. It’s important to remember everyone is…
Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Ahh, the comfort zone. A place where we feel cozy and safe with little to no stress. When it comes to being on the job, there’s comfort in sticking to what we know. There’s comfort in surrounding ourselves with people that may be further behind than us or being that person that everyone can rely…
5 Ways to Unwind After a Stressful Day
This post contains affiliate links. Read my disclosure here. We all have stressful days at one point or the other. It’s a way of life. And I think most of us can agree that after a long, stressful day at work, the only thing we want to do is get in our sweats and plop…
How I Secured Each of My Jobs in My Career
I’ve been very fortunate, but smart, when it comes to my career. The thing is, I’ve been told through the years that I’ve gotten “so lucky.” I’d love to think that, but it goes so far beyond that. Nothing has come easy and I’m going to share with you how I’ve secured the three jobs…
5 Ways to Unplug from Technology
If we’re halfway across the world from our loved ones, we can jump on Facetime or Skype and see them within seconds. If we’re lost, we can simply look up our location on a map on our phones. If a natural disaster happens, we can search for information on Twitter in real-time, rather than waiting…
South Island, New Zealand: A 10 Day Self-Drive Itinerary
Have you always wanted to go to New Zealand? Me too. There is SO much to see, so how do you narrow it down? When deciding where to go on our honeymoon, my husband, Adam, and I quickly agreed we were going to go there, but knowing we only had about 10 days, we had…
9 Ways to Find Your Happiness
At the beginning of every year, I like a lot of other people, mentally prepare for the upcoming year by determining what my goals are going to be. In 2018, I’ve committed myself to simply just finding happiness in all things that I do. I tend to get very caught up in my day to…
6 Tips to Help You Land That Promotion
The last two companies I worked at did not do a great job of ensuring career conversations were happening. I usually had to seek out those opportunities in my own way. I also had to get creative on how I approached management in regards to getting promoted. Salesforce, where I currently work, does an amazing…
