A Beginner's Guide to Meditation
Here's a great guide to starting up a meditation practice from scratch. Let this comprehensive guide for beginners show you the way...
Life Skills & Self-Help
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A Path to Positive Productivity
Do you start each morning anxious about all of the things on your plate? Each of them swirling in your mind, leaving you too overwhelmed to actually accomplish any of them? What if there was a way to quickly and effectively write your to-do...
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Be the Most Interesting Person in the Room
When I'm at a networking event, I tend to keep to myself and not talk to anyone (which totally defeats the purpose of being at a networking event). Don't be like me! Use this path to learn how to engage...
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Boost Your Everyday Effectiveness
Do you consider yourself to be an effective person? Many of us could benefit from tweaking at least a few of our skills in order to become even more effective in our everyday lives. This is what we’ll be exploring...
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Buying Your First Home
Buying your first home can be stressful: it's a weird, long process with lots of pitfalls and questions and signatures and documents and... (you get the picture). Sometimes, it's hard to know what's actually going on. This path features res...
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Career Leap: Pushing Beyond Your Bounds
This is an all call for the serial fear mongers amongst us. Those of you who know you need to make a move, or take a leap, but fear has you in its awesome clutch. I challenge you, without judgement,...
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Career Resources: Preparing for your next role
Are you entering or re-entering the workforce? Looking to pivot to a new role or industry? Here are some fundamental resources to help prepare for your journey These series provides resources to help you get a job, or change to...
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Dare2Dream with Lefty Williams
Native of Jersey City, New Jersey, Lefty has long known that anything worth having wouldn't come easy. He learned at an early age that there would be many days of hard work and sacrifice. He knew that the key to...
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Dealing with Other People's Emotions
Most people want to end conversations when someone cries or gets angry, but then you miss the opportunity to find solutions together. And, it’s likely you will make the person feel worse. It’s better to be compassionately silent until they...
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Empowering Women in the Workforce
Feeling empowered is the result of committing to the work you do, inspiring those around you, and staying focused on your dreams - no matter how big. Empowered leaders cultivate empowerment in others by approaching challenges with courage, creativity,...
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Empowering Your Mind with Positive Psychology
Twenty years ago when I struggled with depression, I had no idea about the tools I needed to stay mentally happy until my psychologist introduced me to them. Then I thought, “Why am I only hearing about this now?” We...
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Failing Forward…with Science
We all experience failure, but scientists say that how we handle setbacks determines our future successes. These resources, curated from around the web, draw from the positive psychology movement; featured thinkers include Martin Seligman, Guy Winch,...
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Feedback: The Gift You Might Not Want but Receive Anyway
Someone once told me, "Feedback is a gift." This may be true, but constructive criticism (even when it's well-intentioned) can often be hard to take. This path is part of my own learning journey -- I've gathered these resources to...
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Finding The Career You Were Meant For
Finding a job can be one of the most stressful things we do. Unfortunately, many of us find jobs we don’t love, and are often afraid to make the leap to something else when we are in a place we...
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Finding Your Voice
Author, social media influencer, and Catcat guest curator Najwa Zebian helps us navigate through the steps needed to find our voices. By uncovering our authentic selves and finding the right words, we're able to share our stories and build our...
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Forging Your Career Path: Tips for New Professionals
Your first days as a new professional can be tough. This path has resources to help guide you through several aspects of this new phase of your life, including communication and personal branding.
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Getting Interpersonal: Building Relationships
The resources in this learning path focus on the importance of relationship building in developing and strengthening interpersonal skills. Learn to build, reinforce, and energize workplace relationships to the benefit of your career, coworkers, and...
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How to Be *Pretty Intense*
When Danica Patrick decides to pursue her interests, passions, or dreams - she goes all in. From her racing career to entrepreneurship, fitness, and nutrition, the energy and intensity she brings to each pursuit pays off - but she'll be...
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How to Make/Break/Keep a Habit
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” [Aristotle - summation by author Will Durant] Habits - good or bad - are the qualities many people find the most difficult to change, and...
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How to Stay Safe Online
The Internet can be a scary place. In this path, learners will be introduced to basic concepts of online safety and security. Common scams will also be reviewed.
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Learn the Basics of Spanish
Spanish is one of the world’s leading and most widely spoken languages. Learning a second or third language is an investment in yourself. There is no better way to grow your skills and capabilities than by investing energy in a...
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Make Better Decisions
"There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move." - Chess Grandmaster, Susan Polgar Life, like a game of chess, is purely the product of your decisions - some major *new job!? new car?*, some minor *sushi or veggie bu...
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Master the Art of Self-Confidence
In order to achieve workplace success, personal satisfaction and personal achievement, competence is essential. But without confidence, competence will only take you so far. Lack of confidence and a low self-esteem are two of the major things that...
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Minding Your Manners: A Guide to Business Etiquette
Your academic knowledge and skills may be spectacular, but do you have the social skills needed to be successful in the workplace? Professional etiquette is an unwritten code of conduct regarding the interactions among the members in a business...
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