High Five Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 8 Steps to Reaching Your Full Potential

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!

• 8 Steps to Reaching Your Full Potential: "Commit to regular time for personal development and strategic thinking — space to think and feel. Begin with a couple of hours each week and expand from there."

• The Ultimate Guide to Bulletproof Habits: "The most direct, fulfilling route to greatness is not through grand strategy, clever maneuvers, inborn talent or the right connections; it’s the path of small, consistent and patient steps repeated again and again."

• Why Mindfulness is a Must-Have Mental Skill: "mindfulness provides for a non-confrontational intervention where you develop the skill to choose to pivot your thinking and stop the broken record of unhelpful thought looping on repeat."

• 4 Ways Working Dads Can Make More Time for Family: "The men surveyed rated work-life balance as the primary factor to consider when measuring success and as the third most important criteria for choosing a job."
• 5 Tips on How to Find a Mentor:"Ask what you can do to help your mentors. You may have assets they need. Don’t be a pest, but do send a relevant article or a post they might find interesting, or promote their work to your network."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Create and Reach Your Goals in 4 Steps

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 to Create and Reach Your Goals in 4 Steps: "Reaching your goals is equally as hard, if not harder, than setting them, but if you can be patient and focused you will be far more likely to succeed."

• 12 Self-Care Tips for Busy People: "Afford yourself a personal reward from time to time, especially after you’ve done a great job on a tough project or gotten your business through a rough patch. It’s not going to kill your budget, and a fresher, happier you will reap significant rewards."

• Why You Should Work Less and Spend More Time on Hobbies: "To stand out and compete in today’s crowded and constantly changing business environment, organizations need new, innovative ideas that will rise above the noise."

• 7 Lessons in Leadership from Tom Brady: "There are no shortcuts when it comes to success -- you've got to put in the work. As Brady once said, 'I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal'."
• 10 Things You Can Do to Boost Self-Confidence:"People with low self-confidence see others as better or more deserving than themselves. Instead of carrying this perception, see yourself as being equal to everyone."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Improve the Odds of Reaching Your Goals

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 Art of Improvement describes how accountability can help us be more successful in reaching our goals. Check out the video for more.