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Journaling is a meaningful exercise to help make sense of your emotions. Self-reflection enhances your self-awareness , which is necessary for personal growth. Writing about your thoughts and feelings can help transform your experiences into learning opportunities, while cultivating deeper gratitude and encouraging a more profound understanding of the events in your life. Journal Prompts to Evaluate Personal Growth The following 10 journal prompts invite you to dive deeper into specific areas of your life that are important to look back on as the year comes to a close—such as relationships, achievements, challenges and lessons learned, as well as hopes for the future. Taking time to look back on the year allows you to understand the decisions you made, why you made them and how you want to implement this newfound clarity into your life moving forward. 1. What achievements from the past year are you most proud of? Reflect on the challenges you faced and how they contributed to this s...

He has been named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people. He has five New York Times bestsellers. But it wasn’t by accident. Malcolm Gladwell is intentionally leading the way on building influence, a topic he deconstructed for listeners in a recent LinkedIn workshop .  While many business owners could only dream of this type of reach and influence, Gladwell is an open book about how he got there and what he recommends for others. Though his books, including his latest, Revenge of the Tipping Point , are on serious topics, he’s not always serious and balances humor with deep research and innovative perspectives. For example, you’ll find him as the “Skinny Canadian” on his Instagram bio . He also examines history through a lens of what we overlooked or misunderstood in a podcast called Revisionist History . Here are six things he shared in his workshop about building influence that can apply whether you’re in charge of a small team of three, your town, your massive corporation ...

Every workplace team is like a melting pot of various backgrounds, experiences, strengths, weaknesses and personalities. It’s these differences that help you to become a well-rounded and successful cohort. But, these same dissimilarities can also cause friction among the group.  If you’re having trouble understanding why Ryan from marketing never speaks up in meetings or why Sarah in accounting is easily overwhelmed, the DISC Model can help. Created by Psychologist William Moulton Marston, DISC is a personality assessment that gives valuable and actionable insights into a person’s unique behaviors and priorities. Based on answers to about 80 personality-focused questions, people are grouped into a distinct style bucket through an assessment.  These classifications can help us to better understand ourselves and those around us, giving us further insight into the pace we prefer to work, how we engage with coworkers, and how we respond to challenges or rules. The analysis can ...

Jessica Muñoz was working as a nurse practitioner in Honolulu when she first learned American children were being bought and sold for sex. Kids were coming into the emergency room where she worked, but their stories “just didn’t line up,” she says. Often, they’d been written off as troublemakers or bad kids, but Muñoz realized the truth: They were victims of sex trafficking and exploitation. These vulnerable kids had been tricked or forced into sex work, and they had nowhere to turn. Muñoz decided to change that by founding Ho‘ōla Nā Pua , a nonprofit focused on preventing youth sex trafficking and providing care and healing for victims. The organization’s name means “new life for our children” in Hawaiian. Under her leadership, Ho‘ōla Nā Pua has opened a 32-bed residential treatment facility called Pearl Haven that offers therapeutic services for children ages 11 to 17. The group also raises awareness about sex trafficking, runs a mentorship program and provides prevention educati...

“By the end of 2025 a bingo card is gonna hate to see me coming… because yep, I’m gonna make one, I’m gonna use it, and I’m gonna achieve all my goals.” Tiara, a writer posting on TikTok wonders why she didn’t think of this before. “It’s genius.” While some people make lists or vision boards with inspo pictures of who they want to be or what they want to do, a new trend is taking hold: bingo cards. Think of it as a little bucket list for your New Year’s goals, but in the literal shape of a bingo card. Last year, one brand design team posted their bingo cards on TikTok, including goals like winning a designer award, reaching certain numbers of social media followers and signing specific types of clients from new industries. On Reddit, one user posted about how they’ve been making bingo cards for six years, including items like “solo mission,” “blood donation” and “home upgrades.” “Reframing resolutions from a homework assignment or a task that “has to get done” to a playful achiev...

It’s no secret that the career industries of journalism and editorial are currently highly unstable. News of job cuts in these fields breaks every week. Hearst Magazines laid off around 200 employees in late November, and this gutting was quickly followed by major cuts from Condé Nast and Vox Media in early December. In 2024, per Press Gazette , at least 2,500 media jobs had been slashed in the U.S., Canada and the UK—a number that is less than 2023’s whopping 8,000 job cuts in the field of journalism , but which is still indicative of the industry’s general trajectory. Editors and journalists have always faced a competitive job market, but the state of media today presents unprecedented challenges. Threats such as AI , misinformation and the public’s growing distrust in legacy media and increasing reliance on social media , video and individual commentators for news have all factored into the general decline of traditional editorial jobs.  Editors and journalists possess man...

It’s a scene straight out of a holiday movie: A family travels to an idyllic farm to cut down their own Christmas tree and spends the day walking the rows, making wreaths and sipping hot cocoa. At some of the 15,000 Christmas tree farms across the United States, this picture-perfect scene isn’t fiction. Many farmers forgo the wholesale market by welcoming visitors to purchase fresh trees—one of some 25 million sold in the U.S. every year. Let’s take a closer look into how Christmas tree farms work by speaking to the families who run them. How do Christmas tree farms work ? Although the farms do much of their business from the day after Thanksgiving through early December, Christmas tree growing is a year-round profession. “I get asked what I do the rest of the year,” says Christian Nicholson, owner of Hidden Pond Tree Farm and president of the New Jersey Christmas Tree Growers Association. “There is no rest of the year; it never stops.” As soon as the ground thaws in spring, seedli...