Peaceful Direction Resource Library

“No matter how much I did or how good my work was, it was never going to be enough.”

Instead of spending your days complaining, you might try changing your workplace from within, says leadership expert Simon Sinek.

Researchers say organizations should avoid a one-size-fits-all policy and do this instead.

The skill you most need at work is one that also helps you at home, says psychology expert and best-selling author Nir Eyal.

In today's Sunday Soother advicecast, Catherine is taking a question from a reader who wants to be a good manager but isn't quite sure where to start.The Sunday Soother Advicecast is a spin-off the popular newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a weekly newsletter that helps reader access their spirituality and mindfulness in practical, actionable ways.You can find Catherine @candrews on Twitter and Instagram @catherineandrews. Submit your questions anonymously at this link; email your question to Catherine here; or leave a voicemail with your question at (202) 525-6558.Resources mentioned in this...

One-on-one meetings with direct reports are high leverage opportunites to impact your team's performance. Make sure you're getting the most out of them.

Five strategies can help.

“Hacking” your work only works if you’re a person who would be congratulated for your ingenuity. If you’re not, here’s what to try instead.

A study of 1,000 early-career scientists.

Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or generally "living while black." In this profound, thought-provoking and often hilarious talk, he reveals the power of language to change stories of trauma into stories of healing -- while challenging us all to level up.

Don’t be shy about bringing your ideas to the table.

Why the pursuit of money isn’t bringing you joy — and what will

The current process ends too soon.

They’re some of the most expensive mistakes you can make.

[Image description: Three fluffy adorable little kittens in a basket. Two are white with blue eyes, and the one in the center has orange stripes. They are all looking up, probably at the photograph…

Only a few decades ago, we lived mostly free of the strange tension between the desire to enjoy something and the desire to photograph it.

As of this August, I’ve been a people manager at Pivotal for four years. I reflected on my time in this role, and wrote down some thoughts…

Gen Z-ers and millennials have been called lazy and entitled. Could they, instead, be among the first to understand the proper role of work in life?

Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.

This mindfulness practice is called the push-up for your brain: focus, sustain attention, notice, and redirect attention back to the breath when it wanders.

"Listen, I would love the reorg to work. But I just can't trust them." I had called Mary* as part...

An animated series exploring the narratives running through creative minds.

Eight years ago, during the same month, I had twin boys and co-founded Cloudability. About three months ago Cloudability was acquired.