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Here's a secret about the work habits of seasoned professionals: Experts sketch, and they do it all the time.   They sketch when they're at the re...

What? An underwriter?   So what is that? Sounds like a scary profession to me -- maybe a copy writer turned zombie? Or Edgar Allan Poe meets "Six ...

Do you ever feel like you spend half your day in meetings that quite honestly accomplish very little.   Have you ever been sitting in your office,...

Apparently some fella (Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971) who had considerable wisdom penned the following:   "... grant me the serenity to accept the th...

Smart buildings stand out from more primitive structures in their use of technology to automatically adjust temperature, lighting, ventilation, an...

Claims, transactions, details, and thousands upon thousands of numbers speckle my day as a medical biller.   It's a rewarding profession filled wi...

Life is all about choices.   According to a Psychology Today article that cites a Cornell University study, we make 226.7 decisions a day -- and t...

It's the carrot that dangles before all of us: Work-Life Balance (WLB).    In some alternate universe, we would all have jobs that allowed us the ...

Have you ever made a mistake? Of course you have.   No one gets through life without making at least one, and most of us make lots of them... ever...

Fate is the hand of cards we’ve been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.   Question: how do environmental triggers influence the hand though?  ...

We've all been there.   Something awful happens and we spiral into self-pity and a "why me?" attitude.   It's ok to give yourself a little time to ...

All of us have to deal with difficult or rude people from time to time.   It happens all the time: at work, at home, at the grocery store, at paren...