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     Millions may lose their jobs during this economic downturn, but those who know how to strategically add value with career building skills can expect a raise. These are hard times for everyone – except people who have managed their opportunities in alignment with their greatest strengths. The more challenging it is for others, the more they seem to succeed. Why do opportunities continually flow toward them, passing you in the process?   What do the most successful know that you don’t know?      Most likely nothing. They are not smarter than you, but they are more strategic. They know how to leverage professional growth in such a way to position themselves for greater worth to the marketplace. If this concept is new to you, consider there is a dollar sign that invisibly floats above your head. It says to employers, "what you are worth"? For some, it only shows an unskilled number that reflects minimum wage opportunities at entry l...

Here are 23 career coaching strategies to get a raise during a recession. Millions may lose their jobs during this economic downturn, but those who know how to strategically add value with career building skills can expect a raise. These are hard times for everyone – except people who have managed their opportunities in alignment with their greatest strengths. The more challenging it is for others, the more they seem to succeed. Why do opportunities continually flow toward them, passing you in the process? What do the most successful know that you don’t know? Most likely nothing. They are not smarter than you, but they are more strategic. They know how to leverage professional growth in such a way to position for greater worth to the marketplace. If this concept is new to you, consider there is a dollar sign that invisibly floats above your head. It says to employers what you are worth in the marketplace. For some, it only shows an unskilled number that reflects min...

By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC, CLC How Financial Fears Hurt Your Health and Can Cause Slow Suicide Coronavirus can destroy your health, and sadly can destroy your life. Not as a primary impact of the disease, since most patients tested positive for COVID-19 recover. No, as a secondary threat – slow suicide.  If the concept is new to you, slow suicide describes the passive self-destructive behaviors that erode physical and mental health. Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opioids, illegal use of prescriptions, junk food and addictive behaviors like gambling, pornography, spending or compulsive overeating. Americans know they should not eat, drink, watch or consume unhealthy things, yet during COVID-19 isolation many will skip the healthy behaviors Surgeon General Jerome Adams is begging them to do with social distancing to save life and choose instead to slowly weaken their own.  To decide to die by your own hand is not a new problem in America. Suicide is the #10...