Everyone experiences adversity at work. No person is exempt from its reach. On-the-job adversity can be many things-hardship, difficulty, misery, calamity or failure. It masquerades as small setbacks, medium-sized obstacles or major challenges, which are brought to light on a daily basis. Intuitively we have a variety of ways to deal with adversity at work [...]

Remember your first day on the job? Everything was new. The work environment was exciting and co-workers were so cooperative that you looked forward to coming to work each day with a combination of joy and curiosity. However, after several months or years, the job seems repetitive and uninteresting. You’re tired of office politics and are fed up with co-worker complaints about the company and each other [...]

Figuratively, the eye of a hurricane can be likened to the quiet center of a disagreement or argument. There is a definite though fleeting pause in hostilities where antagonists take a “time-out” to soothe heated emotions and quiet racing blood pressure and heartbeats [...]