Having a Side Hustle Is No Longer a Choice, It’s a Necessity Last week, 30,000 Los Angeles public school teachers were on strike. As the government shutdown enters its fifth week, 800,000 federal workers continue to be affected, having missed their second paycheck and are even turning to food banks in order to eat. One …
A Second Chance Is Not on the Menu for All Guest Post by Anusha Shrivastava, PhD It’s easy to take waking up in the morning for granted. It’s easy to take life itself for granted. Until you can’t. Two of my classmates died recently. They never made it to 50. A few batchmates lost parents. …
Just a Thought: A Panel Discussion on Teen Mental Health On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, Konversai attended a panel discussion hosted by Children’s Health Council (CHC) entitled Just a Thought: Teens’ Reflections on Depression and Anxiety. CHC is located in Palo Alto, CA, and its mission is to remove barriers to learning to help children …
The Introductory Question to Stop Asking (And What to Ask Instead) Think back to the last several people you’ve met and the conversations you’ve had upon meeting them. What were among the first questions you asked or have been asked? If you live in the United States, or much of the Western world, one of …
7 Tips for Dealing with Negative Emotions “I believe in staying strong when everything seems to be going wrong.” ~Audrey Hepburn With everything that has been going on in the news over the past few weeks, we are living in a time marked by intense emotions—some positive and some negative. We all know that negative …
5 Reasons to Pursue Multiple Careers Updated: December 5, 2017 In our blog post on Understanding Millennials, we discussed how millennials are among mankind’s most generous, steadfast, engaged, responsible, trusting, and wise generations. Earlier generations judge millennials by yesterday’s model of working in a single career followed by retirement and living on savings and pension. That …
Millennials have been called selfish, flaky, lazy, irresponsible, gullible, and spoiled. The truth is nothing but the opposite. They are not a naïve generation on the wrong track. Rather, millennials are among mankind’s most generous, steadfast, engaged, responsible, trusting, and wise generations. First things first—what is a Millennial? If you were dividing the billionaires on the Forbes …
