This week’s bunch of snippets have short extracts without any commentary from me. If you read only one article, check out the one on Generation Y and unhappiness. Why? Short answer: Baby Boomers. Feel free to interact with the mash in the comments.
How to Find the Time for That Important Project
Accept reality. You only have 168 hours a week—the same as everyone else, including presidents, captains of industry, and the homeless man you passed on the way to work. Time is finite. You can’t borrow, beg, or steal more of it.
Starting and finishing that important project is not about time management as much as it is about priority management. It’s not so much about efficiency as it is about courage.
The question is this: How important is this project compared to everything else in your life?
Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy
For those hiring members of Gen Y, Harvey suggests asking the interview question, “Do you feel you are generally superior to your coworkers/classmates/etc., and if so, why?” He says that “if the candidate answers yes to the first part but struggles with the ‘why,’ there may be an entitlement issue. This is because entitlement perceptions are often based on an unfounded sense of superiority and deservingness. They’ve been led to believe, perhaps through overzealous self-esteem building exercises in their youth, that they are somehow special but often lack any real justification for this belief.”
