I talk a lot about goals around here. If you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you know that my life is filled with goals. I have goals for the year, I have lifetime goals (my flux list), and I have monthly goals. Whenever I make a new goal, I try to make sure that I am creating SMART goals.
Planning a career path can be a tricky game. Some people have it all figured out. They know exactly what they’re doing and where they’re going – especially when it comes to planning their career. As the Onion reminds us, there are plenty of 20- and 30-somethings out there who are achieving life milestones all the time and with no end in sight. So obnoxious, right? What about the rest of us?
I hate to break it to you, but if you want to achieve those life milestones–getting a promotion, getting married, having a baby–you need to work for them and you need to plan for them, especially when they relate to your career. Things can fall into your lap, but, more often than not, they require work on your part. As Sheryl Sandberg highlights in her new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
If you haven’t realized it already, it’s officially Daylight Savings time. * Tear * We lost an hour! Think of all the things we could have done!
While your biological clock adjusts to the time shift, check out these reads:
As a former (long time) Girl Scout, I loved this post about money-making lessons you can learn from the Girl Scouts. Now only if I had some Caramel Delights!
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In student loan news, Ready for Zero breaks down the details and considerations you should make before deciding to apply for the Pay As You Earn student loan program.
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A while back, I wrote about habits that may be keeping your career back. Brazen Careerist continued this conversation with their post about things that you shouldn’t do if you want to be taken seriously at work. The way you talk, playing dumb, treating your cubicle like a dorm room and talking in text language all made the cut.
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Do you work in an office (like tech-focused) that touts it’s culture as top-notch, “with it”, etc? Find out what those foosball tables, flexible vacation policies, and free food really mean about your office culture.
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Formal professional development programs are becoming harder to find, especially after the first year of working at a company. Levo League offers suggestions for creating a DIY Leadership Development Plan. Hey, sometimes you need to take things into your own hands.
I haven’t had any travel planned since the beginning of the year and there is nothing currently on the docket for the coming months. To make up for this lack of travel, I’ve decided to start to explore some of the more touristy sides of my own backyard. Enter: Chelsea Market. The great thing about backyard tourism is that one person’s backyard can be another person’s travel destination, so hopefully you will find this useful regardless if you are local to New York or planning to travel here soon. Chelsea Market is located in, you guessed it, the heart of Chelsea in New York City.
Hello, loves!
Things have been quiet around here this week, but that’s because I’ve been busily working on updating the look and feel of Living in Flux. There are still some small details that need to be updated, but the big stuff is done and shiny and new.
Keep your eye out for additional updates in the coming weeks.
As for reads from the Internet, this was a good week! Here are some good reads to get you through Friday: