Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Simplify Your Life

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

The video below from the School of the Life discusses ways to simplify our lives to enable us to live and work better. Check out the video to learn more.

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Create Your Best Future

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below from Success magazine, author Rachel Hollis discusses three things you can do today to create a more positive and successful life. Check out the video to learn more.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 10 Tips to Change Your Life for the Better

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 10 Tips to Change Your Life for the Better: "
  If your day-to-day doesn’t revolve around projects you’re truly passionate about, take a step back and outline activities that do align with your strongest feelings."

• 15 Traits of Unstoppable People: "Without a healthy dose of self-confidence, you’ll be tempted to accept defeat when you should be finding a way to bounce back from failure."

• Want to Win? Write Stuff Down: "good documentation fuels your company with fluid communication and prevents it from being dragged down by cloistered knowledge."

• When is it Acceptable to Say No to Your Boss?: "Whether you have a great boss or an overly demanding one, you’ll most likely land in a scenario where you’re asked to do something you don’t want to do."
• 9 Hacks to Help You Save More Money: "The higher your net worth, the more passive income potential you have. The more passive income you have, the less you need from your next paycheck."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Do This For 90 Days to Grow in Your Life & Career

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below, Alex Heyne from Modern Health Monk,  describes one change you can make to your life to grow in your life and career. Watch the video for more.

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 5 Steps to Live a Life You Love

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below from Brian Tracy, he shares five steps to living a life you love, starting with listening to your heart. Watch the video for the additional four steps:

5 Books to Inspire a Better Career and Life

Books are a great resource for career development and to improve your life and so we're recommending five recently published books to inspire you to excel in your career and life.

Happy reading!

1. Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life by Gretchen Rubin--Many habit experts offer one-size-fits-all solutions. But as we all know through hard experience, no magic formula exists. The secret, Rubin explains, is to pinpoint the specific strategies will work for us. From finding the right time to begin a new habit, to setting up a counter-intuitive system of reward, to using the pleasure of treats to strengthen our good habits, Rubin identifies the 21 strategies that will allow every reader to find an effective, individual fit.

2. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg--Productivity relies on making certain choices. The way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as leaders to drive innovation; the way we interact with data: These are the things that separate the merely busy from the genuinely productive.

3. #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness by Gary Vaynerchuk--#AskGaryVee is the product of over a year’s worth of answering questions on business, entrepreneurship, social media, leadership and more on a YouTube show.

4. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant--Originals is about how to champion new ideas and fight groupthink. Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt.

5. How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness That Helps the World by Colin Beavan--In this breakthrough book, Beavan extends a hand to those seeking more meaning and joy in life even as they engage in addressing our various world crises. How to Be Alive nudges the unfulfilled toward creating their own version of the Good Life—a life where feeling good and doing good intersect.

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Follow Your Fear

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below Marie Forleo suggests that instead of following your passion or your bliss, you follow your fear.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 5 Steps to Get Promoted Faster

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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• 5 Steps to Get Promoted Faster: "If you want to get promoted, then associate with those in your field who have been promoted. They’ve done something right. Habits rub off."


• 5 Ways to Amplify the Good Life: "Really think about and visualize what you’re grateful for. If you write down 'my spouse,' for example, remember a great meal or activity you shared together recently."


• A Simple Formula for Changing Our Behavior: "Practicing a new behavior, showing up in a new way, or acting differently, feels inauthentic. Changing a dance that’s been danced many times before will never feel natural."


• How Successful People Keep Track of Their Best Ideas: "I have a seven-second rule in my home ... I have to be able to reach a working pen and notepad or I risk being distracted and forgetting."


• 5 Mistakes to Avoid as an Entrepreneur: "Customers should be treated with honor and respect, but sometimes they are just wrong."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Reasons to Turn Down a Job Offer

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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• 6 Reasons to Turn Down a Job Offer: "If many team members are recent hires, be sure there is good business reason for the hiring spree, such as a new product or client or a round of funding. Otherwise, too much employee churn hints at a toxic boss or culture."


• What Prevents a Happier Life and Career?: "This one fear keeps people stuck for years, and sometimes for a lifetime. This “what if it doesn’t work out?” worry is crippling."


• How to be a Good Coach: "Choose encouragement over criticism; but when you must criticize, give feedback as soon after the event as possible. Be honest but compassionate, then move on."


• Don't Look for a Job, Look for a Life!: "You have to plant in your mind the idea that you will no longer tolerate less than happiness. You will need to challenge the negative self-talk that keeps you stuck in your current situation."


• 6 Essential Elements to a Good Life: "You won't be happy if you don't produce. The game of life is not rest. Yes, we must rest, but only long enough to gather strength to get back to productivity."