Everyone gets lost from time to time and requires help to find the way. One easy, inexpensive and indispensable tool to help you get your bearings is the compass. It gives you a reference point for measuring all other directions [...]

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 [...]

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English, to speak with one’s tongue in one’s cheek is to speak “insincerely or ironically”. This phrase dates back to 1748 when it was “cool” to show disdain or disrespect for someone by putting your tongue inside your cheek to make it stick out. While we rarely use [...]