by Michael Thompson | May 6, 2020 | Confidence, Habits, Inspiration, Learning, Life Lessons, Personal Development
When it comes to making an impact in the world, all the good habits in the world are worthless if you don’t get rid of your bad habits. “Do you really need to build more good habits? From where I’m sitting you already do a lot of good things. But you’re bad...
by Michael Thompson | Apr 26, 2020 | Career Advice, Communication Skills, Confidence, Habits, Relationships, social awareness / intelligence
One of the key factors to leading a successful career and impactful life is learning how to play well with other – below are the 5 key traits of socially intelligent people according to Dr. Karl Albrecht. I asked Kristina Howard, managing director at Tusk...
by Michael Thompson | Apr 19, 2020 | Career Advice, Communication Skills, Confidence, Personal Development, Productivity, Relationships
The quality of our careers is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions we ask ourselves. Billionaire entrepreneur Warren Rustand claims that it takes the average person until the age of 55 to figure out what they want to do with their life. Then, according...
by Michael Thompson | Apr 19, 2020 | Career Advice, Communication Skills, Confidence, Leadership, Personal Development, Public Speaking Skills
Growing up with a severe speech impediment I was petrified of taking the stage. These 10 exercises can help Introverts to improve their public speaking skills I couldn’t stop staring at the clock. My palms were drenched. All my classmates had to do was speak for 11...
by Michael Thompson | Apr 14, 2020 | Confidence, Happiness, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Personal Development, Self Awareness
The 9 behaviors that are making you unhappy – When things aren’t adding up in your life, start subtracting. On my 39th birthday, a friend of mine asked me a question that caught me off guard: “Most people spend the first half of their lives collecting, and the...
by Michael Thompson | Sep 10, 2019 | Career Advice, Confidence, Life Lessons, Motivation
Your career forms one relationship at a time, not from one job to the next For over a decade, master interviewer and Esquire columnist Cal Fussman traveled the world on a shoe-string budget. When Tim Ferriss, a legendary interviewer in his own right, asked Cal how he...
