In Pursuit of Fulfillment

By Angela Atkinson “You never fail until you stop trying.” ~Albert Einstein As you pursue personal fulfillment and success, there are sometimes speed bumps along the way. Most people find that in order to feel satisfied and happy in their lives, they need to create personal change on some level. Often, when we’re working toward [...]

Guest Post by Patricia Duggan Are you stressed out? Stress is one of the main factors that can negatively affect our mental and physical health. While there are medical treatments to help you deal with the effects of stress, such as sleeping tablets or anti-anxiety medications, these do not usually deal with the real cause [...]

By Dr. Lissa Rankin, Owning Pink When I work with patients, I always ask them whether they’re doing their life’s work, because I truly believe that how we spend most of our day, and whether it’s in line with our life’s work, affects our health. When I ask a woman if she’s doing her life’s [...]

By Angela Atkinson Welcome to Job and Career Week at In Pursuit of Fulfillment! “A lot of people don’t enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.” ~Martin Yan Six years ago, I was working a job I didn’t love. [...]

By Angela Atkinson “Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.” ~Ronald Reagan Earlier this year, I was working on a series of interviews of political candidates for a local news source. The first interview I conducted was with a candidate who called himself a Reagan conservative republican. I’m not [...]

By Lauren Nagel, Owning Pink I’ve always been a please and thank you kinda gal. I’ll interrupt the dinner conversation to genuinely thank the busser for refilling my water glass, and make eye contact when expressing gratitude that a stranger held the elevator for me. But I’ve never been one to truly examine what I’m [...]

By Angela Atkinson Yesterday, we identified the victim mentality and discussed the reasons that some people choose to embrace it. We also briefly touched on the negative side effects of playing the victim. Being a victim undermines your ability to make any change in your circumstances–it paralyzes you and makes you unable to take action [...]