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Top 10 Ways to Love Your Job (No Matter What You Do)

Sometimes when you’re in the early stages of your career, you have to do something less than glamorous. By sometimes I mean ‘most of the time.’ Very rarely do we get to start our …

Written by Hannah Frankman

Top 10 Ways to Develop Personal Freedom as a Young Adult

1. Scrap the permission-based mindset. Waiting for permission is the fastest way to surrender your personal freedom and autonomy. You don’t need someone to say something is okay. If you know it’s right, based …

Written by T.K. Coleman

If You’re Doing it Right, Your Job Will Never Be Enough

Your personal happiness is not a career nor is your career the end-all-be-all to your personal happiness. Yes, I know that happiness is your job and that you’re the CEO of your own fulfillment. …

Written by Lolita Allgyer

4 Tips to Accelerate Your Apprenticeship Experience

An apprenticeship offers the perfect learning environment for any young adult who wants to accelerate his career. Unlike a typical internship or an entry-level job, the expectations during an apprenticeship provide an atmosphere for …

Written by Brian Nuckols

4 Mindsets that Train Forward Tilt

At the start of your career, attitude is far more important than talent and skills. In particular, there’s an attitude that’s helpful for thriving during the Praxis program and throughout your life. We call it, …

Written by Hannah Frankman

How to Set Goals and Achieve Them

One of the deadliest mistakes in a young person’s career is the absence of goals. Goals give you something to work towards, something to measure your success against, and something to give you structure. …

Written by Sara Morrison

Show Your Hustle

I don’t care what your major was. I don’t care where you went to school. We want to see hustle. This comes from the latest episode of the “Skimm’d from the Couch” podcast by …

Written by Brian Nuckols

What is Willpower and How Should You Use It?

Every year, The American Psychological Association releases the results of the Stress in America Survey. Regularly, respondents cite lack of willpower as the reason they fail to follow through on a healthier lifestyle and …

Written by Brian Nuckols

3 Productive Alternatives to Embarrassment

Embarrassment is part of life. From sending out a mass email with an obvious typo to gruesomely mispronouncing a potential customer’s name, and even well-meaning attempts at humor that don’t go as planned I’ve …

Written by T.K. Coleman

3 Reasons Why You Should Learn Out Loud

You’re in the middle of an interesting online course. You just started reading a fascinating new book. You stayed up all night watching a series of talks by a provocative lecturer. Nobody knows. It’s …

Written by Brian Nuckols

Dream Big, Think Small

Recently, I workshopped an interesting challenge with a potential applicant that makes a good case study on some of the unique ways we like to tackle ambitious goal setting and career planning. This person …

Written by Chuck Grimmett

Turn Your Defeat Into a Growth Story

Here is a question I came across last week on Reddit: I was recently fired from a part-time bookkeeping job and replaced by someone with more experience who can do the job faster than …

Written by Isaac Morehouse

Your Skills Are More Transferable Than You Think

You tell me you want to be an athlete. I say, “Awesome! What sport?” You tell me you don’t know yet. I say, “That’s cool. I get it. A lot of athletes play multiple …

Written by Isaac Morehouse

How to Fight Fear of Failing Alone

Most of us don’t actually fear failure. Millions of people play the lottery, knowing they’ll almost surely fail. People play sports, where one team is guaranteed to lose. I’ve even happily joined teams I …

Written by Ryan Ferguson

Babies Don’t Baby Step | Forward Tilt Podcast

We call it baby steps when you take small guarded steps forward. But babies take the exact opposite approach. They flail, take big risks, and learn as they go. When babies start crawling they …

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