The post Happy New Year! Happy New . . . YOU! appeared first on Ms. Career Girl. Now, are you ready?  Ready to start creating the next version of yourself?  The idea of New Year goals is probably either exciting, or raises your “not again” eyebrows.  Because most of us either have had repeated

Image by: Pexels By Alvin Martin Just before the New Year, I paid a visit to my Uncle Rob. I’ve kind of created a personal tradition of checking up on him and his family during the holidays. To put it mildly, 2016 was kind of a difficult year for them. His eldest daughter, Janine, who […]

Image by: StartupStockPhotos By Ronnie Toofan Oh, you love to party! Every time you are with your friends, you just can’t stop having a good time. Well, there’s nothing wrong in having fun but not to the extent when there’s no balance in your life anymore. Not when your performance at work, your

The post When Goal Setting Goes Wrong appeared first on Ms. Career Girl. Beyond just every New Year’s Eve, there’s a constant drumbeat to set goals.   That’s meant to encourage us to adopt a goal-setting mindset of  to avoid past failure and achieve desired objectives in the coming years. But

Image by: RUINS By Alvin Martin My friends, Arnold and Rita, are planning to get married by the end of this year. Unfortunately, they are on a “very tight” budget because they are also trying to fix their apartment. They have to cut back on basically everything, from downgrading their wedding