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Recent Articles from Liv Syptak
Do you have a commitment addiction?
We think we're doing what we're supposed to do to be successful at work, contribute at home and be engaged in the community. But in our unconscious, compulsive cycle of over-committing, we undermine our best and highest intentions.
Are you over-goaled and under-fulfilled?
The next time you approach a possible goal, check in. Will achieving it enhance your success? Will your pursuit of it bring meaning to your work and life? If yes, great! If not, beware.
There is no Yelp for creating your success
There's a flip side to our apparently insatiable need for proof or validation. As helpful as it is in our lives as consumers, it can royally trip us up in attempts for true, fulfilling success.
Why hope is not a business plan
When I hear their hopeful talk, the expectations they have for their work and what their lives will be like when it happens, I always want to know what their plan is to make those aspirations reality.
How to keep pedaling toward success
Being "off the back" provides an opportunity to assess what's happening during those times when the striving isn't enough to keep us going toward the next finish line.
When you get out of your comfort zone, where do you go?
I’m often struck by how almost superficially the advice to "get out of your comfort zone" is bandied about. What's so astounding to me is that this advice is rarely if ever given with any substantive follow up about what you step into.
Winning Bananagrams strategies for career success
Whenever I play the game Bananagrams, I am reminded of how winning in this game requires some key tactics that also happen to be critical to building success and fulfillment in our work.
Han Solo was rescued, but your success is up to you
The career equivalent of being frozen in carbonite is the inertia that sets in and holds us in place. Whether that’s bogged down in burn out, or uninspired due to a lack of challenge and growth.
