Lauren Krasny

What to Say when Your Boss Appreciates You

You're going about your workday when your boss stops you to say how much they appreciate your work. They give nothing but praise—what do you say? They're noticing all your hard work, and there's no shame in accepting t...

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Answer the Question “Who Are You”

Defining yourself is a difficult process, whether you are writing a journal entry, answering an interview question, or trying to be happier and more fulfilled in your life. However, you must define who you are for yourse...

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Protect Yourself from Blame at Work

Everyone makes mistakes at work. However, some people delight in blaming others for their errors. To avoid being unfairly blamed, you should protect yourself as much as possible. Begin by creating a paper trail in which ...

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Keep Your Personal Life Private at Work

Keeping your private life private can help you present a professional image while still enabling you to develop and maintain good working relationships with your colleagues. Allowing your private life to have too big an ...

10 Empowering Ways to Stand Up for Yourself at Work

If you're being disrespected, bullied, or mistreated at work, it's important to stand up for yourself. This can be pretty uncomfortable, though, especially if being assertive doesn't come naturally to you. We totally und...

How to Choose a Career Path

Picking a job that complements your interests and skillsWhether you’re finishing up your education and are ready to venture into the real world or have been working in a certain field for a while and want to try somet...

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Embrace Failure

Failure is an inevitable part of life. Sometimes we learn from our mistakes, and sometimes we just don't know what went wrong. By embracing failure, you are accepting yourself and your situation as a part of life. It is ...

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Criticize Constructively

Giving constructive, critical feedback is an art. It’s a way to encourage positive behavior without blaming or attacking the person you’re criticizing. If you’re going to master the skills required to give construc...

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Adjust to a New Job

Just like when you started at a new school when you were younger, the first few days, weeks, and months of any new job can take some adjusting. Whether it’s your first professional job or a new step along your career p...

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Find Out What Makes You Happy

Figuring out what makes you happy can be a long process, as you will find the same things that make you happy don't necessarily make everyone else happy. One way to learn what makes you happy is to gather data throughout...

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Develop Positive Work Relationships

The people you work with can make or break your job satisfaction levels. Building positive workplace relationships can help you work together, be more productive, and enjoy your job even more. While it might take some ti...

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Tell Your Boss You've Made a Major Mistake

An error, mistake, blooper, blunder, or slip-up. Call it what you like, if you make a major mistake at work, you have to tell your boss right away. A work mistake is not something that can be buried or overlooked, especi...

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Live on Your Own Terms

Some people spend much of their lives in unnecessary anguish over others' expectations of them. Or, worse, they just let life happen to them and follow along passively. The only way you can even begin to start living lif...

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Be the Best You Can Be

Most people would like to be the best possible version of themselves, but everyone has a different concept of what that looks like. Although it might be hard to define, there are a few concrete steps you can take to impr...

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Deal with Someone Who Talks Too Much in Meetings

At some point in your professional life, you have probably encountered a coworker who dominated workplace meetings. They may shoot down everyone else’s ideas in favor of their own, or they may interrupt others continuo...

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Be the Leader of a Group

Being the leader of a group takes a lot of skill as well as an understanding of the needs of the group. While some people are natural leaders, other people need to learn how to become a good leader. To become the leade...

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Be a Good Team Leader

What does it mean to be a good team leader? Good leaders are motivating, decisive, and committed—but ultimately, people want leaders they can trust to have their backs. If you're looking to develop your own leadership ...

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Become a Success

While there is no single secret to success, successful people do have many traits and habits in common with one another. Emulating the habits of successful people, and theorizing how to be more productive in your own li...

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Be a Healthy INTP

INTP, one of the 16 types in the Myers-Briggs personality classification system, stands for “introversion, intuition, thinking, and perceiving.” INTPs are known for their insatiable curiosity, endless ideas, and exce...

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Become an Expert

The journey to becoming an expert may seem daunting, especially if you don’t have a lot of background in what you’d like to study. Don’t worry—while it’s not an easy path, you can follow your dreams with determ...