The Frozen 2 trailer is all the motivation you need to make it a great week

The Frozen 2 trailer is all the motivation you need to make it a great weekThe Frozen 2 trailer is all the motivation you need to make it a great weekThe scene comes into focus A stormy night, waves crashing. Elsa stares down the water with unwavering determination. She trades her iconic braid for a ponytail, and she runs.Fast forward 10 seconds, and a wave has crashed over Elsas body, sending her tumbling.Yet she is undeterred.A now-wet Elsa tries again, diving for a rock, sliding down ice, and running on water. She creates an ice bridge for herself, and it looks as though she might make it whenOh, nope. So close, but no banana.Another wave - a gazillion times bigger than the first - damages the infrastructure of the ice bridge, and Elsa plummets. So basically, your average Monday.No, but really. It can be difficult to get back into the swing of things after the weekend, when all your worries just melted away. Maybe you even spent it with a special someone, and youre not ready for that time to end.Now, youve got 10 things coming at you all at once, and its hard to decide which should be a priority. Plus, unlike Elsa, not everyone has magic powers.But you do share one commonality with the Queen of Arendelle, and thats determination and drive. You can stare down that pile of paperwork just like Elsa stares down the aquatic obstacle course from hell in the new Frozen II trailer.And theres even mora Monday Motivation you can glean from the sequels latest sneak peek, even if it may seem counterintuitive Everyone fails. Even practically perfect Disney royalty fails. And its okay (unless Elsa drowns in the movie, in which case Ill eat my words).So often, it may seem as though everyone around you is doing better than you are. But thats patently untrue. If animated Disney princesses are messing up royally, chances are your colleagues are, too. So chin-up, youre doing just fine. Keep up the good work.And if you do fail at something, thats okay. As they say, its time t o well let it go.This Monday, stare down that obstacle in your path with confidence and drive. It may knock you down once. It may knock you down twice. But chances are youll get up again, and youll succeed eventually if you keep on keeping on.If this pep talk didnt give you the push you needed to make it a great week, check out the Frozen II trailer for even more inspo. After all, a pictures worth a thousand words

3 Mistakes People Make After They Get Promoted - The Muse

3 Mistakes People Make After They Get Promoted - The Muse3 Mistakes People Make After They Get PromotedTime to pop the champagne and call everyone you know Youve been promoted First things first Congratulations No doubt, youve put in hard work to move up. You deserve to pat yourself on the back and look forward to your new role.With that said, a not-so-funny thing can happen after getting a promotion. Some people let their new responsibilities go to their head and they start acting like a different person- and not in a good way. They go from absolutely crushing it in their old job, to shooting themselves in the foot in their new one.But you can avoid this scenario by just sidestepping these three common mistakesMistake 1 Acting Like a Know-it-allThis promotion is validating. It shows you know your stuff- and the people you work with can binnensee it. So, naturally, youre ecstatic and feeling pretty invincible upon hearing the news.However, you dont want to cross that line between con fident and cocky. No one wants to work with a teammate whos strutting around, pretending they have the answers to every one of the companys pressing questions. The truth, of course, is that everybody has room to grow and things to learn, regardless of what level theyre at. Bearing that in mind wont only make you mora likable, itll keep you from taking on something you really shouldnt. So, save yourself from this career pitfall by asking even more questions than you did before, and whenever possible, solicit ideas from your colleagues. This will demonstrate that youre (still) a team player.Mistake 2 Psyching Yourself OutIn most cases, the stakes are raised after youve been promoted. This can include larger teams to manage, more accountability, greater visibility, or more interactions with high-value clients.Feeling anxious yet?Some people easily avoid coming off a know-it-all, because theyre too far on the other side of the spectrum- worrying if theyre up to the task of doing this ne w job. But, keep in mind, theres always a reason (usually more than one) why you were tapped for this new, exciting challenge. People dont just get promoted for no good reason. Management wants to see the company be successful, so if theyve asked you to step into a bigger role, its because they believe in you.Still feeling nervous in the moment? Take a few deep breaths. Go for a walk. Listen to your favorite song. Give yourself some time to acclimate to this new role, and if youre still feeling unsure, read these reassuring words to remember you dont have to be so hard on yourself.Mistake 3 CoastingTruth talk The worst possible time to coast is after youve been promoted. If anything, you should work even harder to exceed the expectations and objectives set before you by your leaders. All roles entail a learning curve, and so, if you spend some time taking it easy- you could find yourself missing deadlines or blowing your first project. And if that keeps happening, you might have a t ough talk about if this promotion really makes sense for everyone.Now, even if youre able to take your efforts down a notch, I wouldnt. Because, when it comes to your professional life, being complacent is a big mistake. The fact that you put in the work to get this promotion tells me you care about climbing the ladder. And if you arent aiming to get better and learn more, you wont keep moving forward. So, once you get your feet under you and feel like you have a handle on whats expected in this role, have a conversation with your boss about how you can keep growing. Ask Where are the opportunities to innovate or do more? This might seem intimidating, but itll remind your boss that youre a go-getter and reinforce their decision to bump you up in the first place. You should always have a next play in mind, even while you remain laser-focused on your current role and deliverables.The most important thing you can do is not become a new person simply because you have a new title. Remain in touch with the skills, thought process and habits that helped you get to this next step in your career and youll be just fine.Good luck in your new role

Most people try to get out of going to weddings and birthday parties

Most people try to get out of going to weddings and birthday partiesMost people try to get out of going to weddings and birthday partiesIve been to one wedding in my entire life and theres no amount of money or friendship points that will convince me to go to another. I took off work for a destination wedding in Taos, New Mexico it was hot, the food was horrible, both families were ghoulish and everyone involved is now divorced.Obviously, time-off work is a valuable thing, but next to birthdays, weddings are the hardest things to get out of. At least with birthdays, you can feign poverty, but someone will always offer to pay your way for a wedding. The growing minority of people that mucksmuschenstill get married take the event very seriously and expect their friends to do the same.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreHow many people actually enjoy going to their friends weddings? Ev en with the free booze, uncle fights and fancy cakes took into account, how many people would put your special day on the pay-no-mind list if they knew they could get away with it?Vacation crashersA brand new nationwide study conducted on a randomly selected group of 1,000 men and women, between the ages of 18 and 65, of all income brackets,conducted by third-party research firm, Mortar, for Flash Pack suggestsweve been taken advantage of our friends during their limited free time. An average of 3.5 days are gobbled up by other peoples events 10 days is the average number of vacation days given to employees-which means 35% of those days are forfeited every year. One in four respondents took more than their yearly allotment of vacation days to attend their friends important things.Wedding season haunted 25 to 44 years with the most frequency. Sixty-one percent of this demographic reported as many as 10 local weddings in the past three years alone and an additional 34% occasioned four destination weddings during that same period.The RSVP plague is more rampant in bigger cities. The average respondent has gone to 30 events for other people in the past three years, this figure is divided by a median of fourlocal weddings, four destination weddings, seven birthday celebrations, four baby showers, six bachelor/bachelorette parties, and five anniversary parties.Eighty-percent of all the participants involved in the survey said that they would much rather use their vacation time for themselves-leaving 20% of respondents consensually calling out of work, renting a car/tux/gown, to watch you make a mistake probably (the odds are really good).Thirty-one percent of respondents said they made up lies to get out of going to their friends events, though a much larger slice of people didnt have the confidence, to be honest about saying no. Twenty-two percent of people freak out by the simple act of getting invited to a thing,These figures show its all too easy to fall into a habit of obligation in your 30s and 40s, says Flash Pack co-founder Lee Thompson. You have this long summer stretch ahead of you but before you know it, every other weekend is being spent at a wedding, a birthday bbq or a bachelorette party. These events are great, of course. But they also mean that, in a life thats already bursting at the seams, youre frittering away all your spare time on other peoples dreams. This summer, were encouraging people to be a little more positively selfish. Do the things that YOU want to do. Travel the world, meet new friends push your comfort zone. Reclaim your precious vacation time.