Making time to recharge your internal batteries isn’t a priority for everyone. In this fast-paced life and fast-paced world, people find it hard to slow down to make time to care for themselves, lest an angry boss or needy client label you as “unproductive” or – even worse – “unreachable”. In these days of instantaneous communication […]
Looking for a new job can be a terrifying and exhilarating endeavor, but perhaps the best way to describe it is “stressful”. If you are looking for a new job, it often means you are unhappy in your current position, hitting a wall professionally, looking for the next step, or are unemployed completely. All of […]
Starting your day out on the right foot is crucial to actively planning to have a productive day. You know how it goes, you start off the day by running late in the morning, then you get stuck in traffic, you get to work late, and it all goes downhill from there. But what if […]
In honor of Mother’s Day which is rapidly approaching, I decided to reach a little outside my normal niche topics to combine two things that I am passionate about: Being an effective manager and being a good mom. These things are not so different than you would think at first glance. I’ve compiled a list of […]
-“So what do you do for a living?” It is a pretty common question, but yet one that stumps many people. It should be relatively easy to reply to that question; since we spend over 2,080 hours a year working at the job we are being asked about…so why is it hard to summarize an […]
Resume writing is a necessary evil. No one really loves to write or update their resume (not even me), but it is one of those required things we must do as adults to land a job, earn a promotion, or take the next step professionally. So there are some core and basic things you must do when […]
Finding a good work life balance is a fine line to walk when you are very ambitious and actually like what you do. It’s also hard today, when you are almost constantly available by text, email, and phone to your work, even in your off-hours. On one hand, it can be very easy for the […]
There’s no way to avoid them, difficult people are everywhere. They’re driving with you on your commute each day, possibly annoying or frustrating you with their lack of driving skill, they’re at the office with you, at the grocery store, and even at home sometimes. It’s not feasible to avoid annoying or difficult people completely […]
There is a reason why people set expectations in both life and work and it is simply so that people know what to anticipate, and don’t hope for something they aren’t going to receive/achieve/earn/etc. Setting expectations removes the guesswork from a situation. It allows all those involved to stop wasting precious brain power on the […]
Writing a blog has become an amazingly fulfilling creative outlet for me, though at times I find it hard to budget my time correctly as the ‘one-woman show’ of Infinite11s. Since I have started the site, I find my time split into two distinct categories: (1) producing new content, and (2) blog promotion. Finding the […]
