After 6 Months of Job Transitioning, Here’s What I’ve Learned
Six months have passed since I was laid off. It’s not necessarily an anniversary to celebrate, but it is my current reality. After 6 months of unemployment, here’s what I’ve learned.
Welcome to the writing porftolio of Chad Peterson.
Topics include professional development and transitions, effective working relationships, and maintaining a healthy work/life balance. Using experiences from his own life, all his articles are geared to encourage you to think about you.
Four Activities to Add to Your Schedule to Avoid Burnout
To make your efforts towards your own wellbeing even more successful, there are four activities to add to your schedule to avoid burnout. Part 3 of a 3 part series.
How to Condition Your Body to Avoid Burnout
Condition your body to avoid burnout and improve your productivity through healthy sleeping, eating, breathing, and exercising habits. Part 2 of a 3 part series.
The Secrets of Using Time and Space to Avoid Burnout
Working from home blurs the lines between your professional and personal lives. With a few new habits, you can create a work/life balance and avoid burnout.
Is Too Much Screen Time Making You Miss Out On Life?
Your television, smart phone, laptop, and tablet provide escapes from the monotony of staying home, but is too much screen time making you miss out on life?
Five Ways to Stay Focused When Working From Home
Before COVID-19, studies from the World Economic Forum showed an estimated 7% of the American work force worked from home, amounting to roughly 9.8 million people. The team at Global Workplace Analytics predicts that by the end of 2021 the portion of the workforce based at home the majority of …
How a Staycation is the Perfect Escape
In a world turned upside down by COVID19, a vacation this summer seems impossible. Don’t give up hope! A staycation provides the escape your family needs!
You Can Learn a Lot from a Drag Queen
Looking for a new source of inspiration to enhance your leadership? Fan or not, you can learn a lot about leadership from a drag queen.
How To Survive a Lifequake (And What Is a Lifequake Anyway?)
You’re lying in bed, sound asleep. Suddenly, the bed starts to shake. You dismiss it as a dream working overtime. But, the shaking continues. Your eyes open to see that your bed actually *is* shaking, and so are the lamp, nightstand, dresser, and pictures on the wall… You swing your …
Benefits to Volunteering
The advantages of volunteering are practically endless. The homeless find shelter, the hungry are fed, neighborhoods are cleaned, and lives are improved. What often is not considered are the actual mental, emotional, and health benefits to volunteering. Here are a few ways volunteering can do the world and your body …