How To Supercharge Your Career Success: Actionable Steps For Young Creatives

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Feeling like your career plan has somehow stalled? Or that your plan for your career simply isn’t progressing in the way that you hoped it would do? Have you lost motivation for your role or are you starting to feel like your career just isn’t reaching the heights that you expected? If you’re feeling this way, you aren’t alone; feeling a lack of enthusiasm for your career is a common issue, particularly when you aren’t achieving the goals that you set out for yourself. 

The good news is that if you’re in this sticky situation, there’s no need to panic. There’s lots of useful career advice available and plenty of actionable steps that you can take to turn your career on its head and get things back on track. It might simply be that a new approach is needed for your career success, or it may be that you need to realign your enthusiasm for your career and reaching your goals. 

6 Things Leaders Can Learn From COVID-19 And The Pandemic

It’s hard to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is still happening. Businesses are still shuttered. Some have only recently reopened. Others have chosen to defy orders from various government agencies and reopened.

It’s a crazy time. It’s also real.

We’re experiencing something none of us ever expect to experience. Here we are, though, over a year into the global pandemic.

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It’s hard to think of everything that has been lost. Businesses permanently closed. Families struggling. Churches wondering what to do.

Through all of the chaos, there are good things that have come out of COVID and the pandemic. We only have to look and try to find them.

Today, I want to share 6 things leaders can learn from COVID-19 and how you can use these things to be a better leader.

Everything You Need To Know About Running A Business

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At some point, most people feel like they have what it takes to run their own business, but it just takes that push to get going. You can’t run any kind of business if you don’t have the time or money to get things started, and with that also comes a huge gamble. If you’re going to invest a large portion of your time and money into something that isn’t guaranteed to be successful, you need to make sure that you have some kind of backup plan. Of course, that’s what stops most people from actually going through with their ideas – there’s too much risk involved.

If you’ve decided that you are going to go through with it, then you need to know what’s involved in the whole thing – you might not have what it takes!

Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Monster Hunter

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Monster Hunter is a movie (you can watch it on Amazon Prime) based on the Capcom video game series of the same name. I remember playing the original Monster Hunter game for the Playstation 2. It was an interesting game, but it has very little to do with the movie.

Later entries in the Monster Hunter game series have more to do with the movie. I’m sure this excites those who have followed the series more than I have.

Still, with that in mind, I really enjoyed Monster Hunter. The action was fast, and it brought me into a world I never knew.

Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa in Monster Hunter movie

Monster Hunter finds a team from the United States Army transported to a strange, new world full of mythical creatures. There, they discover there’s more going on than they believed.

Sadly, not all of the Army members make it out alive…