By Alex Planes | More Articles
February 1, 2014
There's more to life than work, but that doesn't mean your job won't be one of the most important parts of your life. Finding a great job involves a little bit of luck and a lot of hard work and training, but for most people, a "great job" means more than just making a lot of money. Many of this year's best jobs happen to be well-compensated, but the very best jobs also burden workers with only modest levels of stress -- and when you get right down to it, it's almost always better when your job doesn't stress you out all the time.
Do you think you've got a stressful job? Well, you're hardly alone. Job network CareerCast recently put together a list of the most stressful jobs of 2014. "Unpredictable conditions, immediate dangers, and high-stakes situations" are all major features of these difficult professions, which CareerCast ranked on a scale from 1 to 100, grading each job by frequency of travel, professional growth potential, deadline intensity, physical demands, competitiveness, environmental conditions, and several other factors can might frazzle even the toughest of nerves. Let's take a look at the five most stressful jobs in America today.
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Kickstarter Success Could Lie in Your Words
By JON M. CHANG
Everyone who creates a Kickstarter page wants to do everything possible
to succeed. But your choice of words could play a bigger role in a
project's success than its creator might think. Researchers analyzed
more than 45,000 different Kickstarter campaigns and found that certain
phrases were more likely to appear in successful projects than in failed
ones.
Tanushree Mitra, a computer science graduate student at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, said that the research was inspired by
unexpected Kickstarter failures. "Ninja Baseball had already generated
attention from the press," she told ABC News. "We had the feeling it
would get funded, but it didn't meet its goals."
Mitra initially didn't see language as one of the most important
elements associated with a Kickstarter success. "In our model, we
included many different possible factors, like the kind of project or
the funding goal," she said. "But the main factor was language."
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How Patience and Persistence Lead to Success
By Beth Kuhel
We live in a world that's driven by instant gratification. We share even the most intimate information via email, instant messaging, Snapchat and texting to get a quick message out. The declining profits in printed media over recent years shines light on the fact that as a society we prefer to garner our information from the Web, which we can access 24/7 rather than from printed media, which comes once per day (and in some locations, only a few times per week).
Our televisions host literally hundreds of stations and programs to choose from so we don't need to wait for our entertainment. We can "like" an article or a YouTube video and create fame for its publisher overnight. Revolutions can come about almost spontaneously from posts on Twitter. We have instant hot, microwave-prepared gourmet meals of every cuisine type to speed up our food preparation make it harder to accept having to make a home-cooked meal from scratch.
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Successful People: The 8 Self-Limiting Behaviors They Avoid
By Kathy Caprino, Contributor, Forbes.com
In my work, I’ve been fortunate to learn from amazingly successful, impactful professionals and entrepreneurs. I’m defining “success” here as achieving what matters most to you, individually and authentically – not as some objective measure of outer wealth, accomplishment or achievement. Observing people in action who are living fully on their terms and absolutely loving it, I’ve seen how they think, react, interrelate, problem solve, and lead. I’ve applied these lessons to my own life, and to those I coach.
I’ve noted that people who love what they do for a living and have created tremendous success and reward, not only engage continuously in life-supporting behaviors, but also avoid certain negative actions and mindsets that other, less successful people habitually get lost in.
The 8 self-limiting, negative behaviors successful people avoid are:
Engaging in “below the line” thinking “Below the line” thinking refers to a particular mindset that shapes how you view the world in a limiting way. It leads to your believing that what’s happening to you is outside your control and everyone else’s fault – the economy, your industry, your boss, your spouse, etc. Below the line thinking says, “It’s not fair what’s happening, and I don’t have what it takes to overcome these challenges. I didn’t expect this and I can’t handle it.” Above the line thinking, on the other hand, says, “I clearly see the obstacles ahead, and I’m addressing them with open eyes. I’m accountable for my life and my career, and I have what it takes to navigate through this successfully. If I fail, I’ll still wake up tomorrow exactly who I am, and will have learned something critical.”
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Engaging in “below the line” thinking “Below the line” thinking refers to a particular mindset that shapes how you view the world in a limiting way. It leads to your believing that what’s happening to you is outside your control and everyone else’s fault – the economy, your industry, your boss, your spouse, etc. Below the line thinking says, “It’s not fair what’s happening, and I don’t have what it takes to overcome these challenges. I didn’t expect this and I can’t handle it.” Above the line thinking, on the other hand, says, “I clearly see the obstacles ahead, and I’m addressing them with open eyes. I’m accountable for my life and my career, and I have what it takes to navigate through this successfully. If I fail, I’ll still wake up tomorrow exactly who I am, and will have learned something critical.”
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5 Simple Ways To Give Back While Traveling
We’d all love to go on a volunteer vacation, learn about the local culture and perhaps save the world. With the average American getting a total of 15 paid vacation days per year, it’s hard to find time to relax and recharge let alone any to give back while we’re traveling.
Just a friendly reminder here: 5 affordable – some even effortless – ways to give back on your next vacation. Because, even if it gets old, it isn’t about how much you give.
1) Donate your leftover change to UNICEF's Change for Good on your plane ride home. American Airlines, Aer Lingus, and Alitalia are among many airlines that's partnered up with UNICEF.
2) Use your extra luggage space to pack much needed supplies for local communities. Websites like Pack For A Purpose and Together For Good keeps an updated list of local schools that can always use more.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
America's Most-Visited Ski Resorts
When it’s time to hit the slopes, millions choose to schuss these mountains’ steeps, bowls, glades, and groomers.
From July 2012 By Sarah L. Stewart Appeared as "" in T+L Magazine
Twenty-five feet of featherlight powder, 300 annual days of sunshine, and world-class skiing facilities: is it any wonder that skiers flock there in winter?
As ski season gets under way at about 500 areas across the country, Colorado resorts are prepping for an avalanche—of people, that is. America’s two most-visited ski resorts, No. 1 Vail Mountain and No. 2 Breckenridge Ski Resort, are found in the Colorado Rockies. Each averages more than 1.6 million annual visits, defined as one person visiting a resort for all or part of a given day. Nearby Keystone Resort also tops the 1 million mark.
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From July 2012 By Sarah L. Stewart Appeared as "" in T+L Magazine
Twenty-five feet of featherlight powder, 300 annual days of sunshine, and world-class skiing facilities: is it any wonder that skiers flock there in winter?
As ski season gets under way at about 500 areas across the country, Colorado resorts are prepping for an avalanche—of people, that is. America’s two most-visited ski resorts, No. 1 Vail Mountain and No. 2 Breckenridge Ski Resort, are found in the Colorado Rockies. Each averages more than 1.6 million annual visits, defined as one person visiting a resort for all or part of a given day. Nearby Keystone Resort also tops the 1 million mark.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
10 Leadership Resolutions to Make It a Very Good Year
By Jack and Suzy Welch
New Year resolutions -- who keeps them? Practically no one. But if you're a leader, be it of three people or 3,000, it's your flat-out responsibility to not just go into work every day and improvise around the latest crisis or email flurry or employee meltdown, but to go into work every day with a cohesive plan of action about how you're going to lead. Otherwise, why would anyone follow you, except that they simply have to? That's no good. So here's to 2014, and 10 resolutions to make it a very good year -- for you, and for the team you lead. 1) Get In Their Skin From the day you become a leader, your biggest role is to build trust, respect and support from your team. A mutual respect. As long as they deliver, you will support them and stand up for them in every way -- and they know it. It's a never-ending job and you can never slip up. >> Full Article
New Year resolutions -- who keeps them? Practically no one. But if you're a leader, be it of three people or 3,000, it's your flat-out responsibility to not just go into work every day and improvise around the latest crisis or email flurry or employee meltdown, but to go into work every day with a cohesive plan of action about how you're going to lead. Otherwise, why would anyone follow you, except that they simply have to? That's no good. So here's to 2014, and 10 resolutions to make it a very good year -- for you, and for the team you lead. 1) Get In Their Skin From the day you become a leader, your biggest role is to build trust, respect and support from your team. A mutual respect. As long as they deliver, you will support them and stand up for them in every way -- and they know it. It's a never-ending job and you can never slip up. >> Full Article
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