High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How Positivity Makes You Healthy and Successful

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!

• How Positivity Makes You Healthy and Successful: "Pessimism is trouble because it’s bad for your health. Numerous studies have shown that optimists are physically and psychologically healthier than pessimists."

• Stop Reading Lists of Things Successful People Do: "Most of the advice these lists contain is based on subjective interpretations of personal accounts, not on systematic, scientific analyses."

• How to Know if a Potential Workplace is the One for You: "The most effective businesses know who they are and use their values as a yardstick in making decisions from who they hire, to who they want to partner with, to what kind of culture they want."

• The Best-Paying Jobs for Women in 2017: "Several health care positions made a showing on the list. For women, nurse practitioners were the third-highest earners."
• 4 Actions You Can Take Right Now to Improve Your Prospects in Life and Business: "Look up new activities that you can try in your area for a small amount of money. This could be a free concert, free class or just a cheap movie. Participate in different activities so you can find out what you might love."