Karl Staib

The Zen of Working with Difficult Clients

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Karl Staib. If you work for yourself you’ve had an annoying client that just doesn’t seem worth your time. You can’t stop this from happening, but you can find your inner zen to turn this seemingly bad experience into a good one. I say this because I’m [...]

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What Is Holding You Back?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. Are you resisting doing something that you know will help your career? You probably should be working on something important right now that will skyrocket your life. You want some great idea to get everything to click. Some magic solution. First, [...]

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How to Build Mental Bridges

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. Listening to public radio always gets my creative juices flowing. I live in Austin and the public radio station always plays little clips from interviews of random people around Austin. This one woman described her experience of growing up in Dallas [...]

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Superpower Development is Not for the Faint of Heart

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. If you want to do great work, you must be able to leverage your superpowers. I’m not talking about throwing on a cape and stopping a car from crashing into an orphanage. I’m talking about saving lives with your career. Too [...]

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Harness Your Emotional Sweetspot

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. Many people think that they can just jump in and work on a project whenever they want to. They think they’ll just do a little planning and get started, but then something weird happens. They get an important call or email [...]

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