I Hate Your Job

It’s always tough to watch someone you love go through something difficult. If your spouse truly hates his or her job, you will want desperately to be able to help.
Here are some effective ideas for how to do just that.

Encourage them to make a change: It is easy to get in a rut with […]

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Part of me is tempted to mentally take superstar do-everything types like Tim Ferriss down a peg to make myself feel better. That part of me is stupid, prideful, and very real, unfortunately.
Anyway, props to Tim Ferriss are due, and frankly, I think the guy is deserving of the attention. From his recent […]

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What’s on your calendar? What’s not?
A friend told me recently, “You can learn a lot about what a man values by looking at his checkbook and his calendar.”
Our calendars tend to be full of work:

Schedule in some value as well including short breaks:

Work on your novel, play with your kids, start a blog, exercise, […]

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Sometimes, we get so caught up with work that we become transformed by it. Particularly when it comes to networking, we might get so focused on “What’s in it for me?” that we only notice the people that can do something for us and ignore everyone else.
This bit of humor from The Onion satirizes […]

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Do you realize that the average person spends more time planning a vacation than they spend planning their life?
As with that vacation, if you don’t spend time deciding where to go and how to get there in life, you’ll probably just roam around.
Creating a personal mission statement will help you decide what is important to […]

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“Did he really just say that?”
You and other IHYJ readers sharing the stupidest things they hear on a regular basis. Sounds good right?

Sometimes, our co-workers or boss will say something so offensive, so trite, so demeaning, or so stupid that we have to pause for a moment to make sure we heard it correctly.

That’s […]

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As the old aphorism says, “If you fail to plan, you can plan to fail.” While I think that’s a bit of an overstatement, planning certainly has its benefits. In particular, planning out your workweek can help reduce stress, set expectations, and actually increase the amount you’re able to accomplish.
Friday afternoons are the […]

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A Form Letter of Appreciation
This isn’t sarcastic. If you have a good boss, why not do this or something similar?! You can just click the “email this” link at the end of the article. If you do give it to your boss, you’d better email me to let me know! If […]

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On the way home from work yesterday, your jerk boss nearly got a ticket.
He was running late because the conference call you were both on went 30 minutes longer than planned, and in his haste, he went through an intersection as the light changed.
The cop parked in the gas station either hadn’t noticed or didn’t […]

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IHYJ Readers Share With Each Other
I’m going a little bit out on a limb here, trusting you to comment to make this post somewhat interesting.
What’s your ideal work situation? Is it no job at all? A wad of money? Helping people? Creating something? Teaching others? Charity, activism, or missionary […]

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