Motivation Archives

5-on-5: Failure

Many people are afraid of failure. But should they be? In this month’s 5-on-5, the Praxis team takes on a few questions about failing. What is the biggest failure you’ve experienced in your career …

Written by Lolita Allgyer

30 Podcasts for Curious Minds in 2019

So you call yourself a lifelong learner? What’s the best way to expand your mind, explore new concepts, and engage with big ideas? Podcasts! They’re great to listen to on your way to work, …

Written by Lolita Allgyer

How to Become Legendary | Praxis Wednesday with Christopher Lochhead

Praxis has been featured on the Legends and Losers podcast several times. Here’s the most recent episode where Christopher Lochhead and Isaac Morehouse discuss building a digital body of work. We were joined by …

Written by Emily Cozzens

How to Trust Yourself And Tackle Your Anxiety About the Future

Emily is a homeschooled college opt-out and Praxis graduate who loves a good challenge, learning new things and enjoying the sunshine and blessings in life. www.emilycozzens.com I keep thinking back on my last year …

Written by Hannah Frankman

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 …

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