Self-Awareness

If you’re wrestling with a demanding job you want to excel at, but it’s draining your energy and getting you down, then here are five actionable strategies to keep your energy up and avoid burning yourself out.

What’s holding you back from the success you want in your career and life and how long have you been putting up with it? There is always an action or choice available to you. Set yourself free toward the future you want with five simple steps.

Fear can keep you from jumping in when you face a big opportunity or challenge at work. You can do all the work to be prepared and still not feel ready. Here are five strategies I’ve found useful to move forward and act and feel ready.

What advice would you give your younger self? If I could go back in time to advise “young May” when I was starting out in my career, I would tell my younger self these four things. See if they help you too.

I love a good graduation commencement speech because it’s a simple, easy and fun way to gain advice on how to live a good life and succeed in your career. Here are three commencement speeches with powerful messages.

Motherhood doesn’t come with an instruction manual. Yet there are a huge number of societal expectations for what being a “good mother” looks like. These lessons helped me be a good mother without conforming to some imaginary perfect person.

How do you make it work when you’re a working mother with big career aspirations? Whether you’re an experienced mother, a first-time mother, or just starting to consider having children, these success factors worked well for me over my 24-year corporate career.

Think about all the roles you play in your life. Whatever roles come to mind, there are three additional roles you’re playing. But are you aware of them? Playing these roles well can help you to be your best self and lead to greater success.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of information and input you’re receiving? There are so many to-do items that it’s difficult to figure out what to tackle first. This 5-step strategy uncovers the actionable steps you want to take.

Self-awareness is foundational to career success and to success in all of life. When you’re more self-aware, you can get better results and better opportunities. These three aspects of self-awareness are particularly important when it comes to your career.

Now is a great time to reflect back on the year. As I reflected on my own year, there were two common themes across the three big things I learned that will help you make next year an even better year.

Do you ever get really busy and feel under a lot of pressure? And then all of a sudden something unexpected gets thrown into the mix? It can be overwhelming and upsetting. Here’s what to do when you need to get a grip and stay productive.