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Feel Guilty for Taking a Sick Day? You’re Not Alone, but It Shouldn’t Be the Norm

Success

According to a 2022 study that appeared in the Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences across four public schools in Nicaragua, teachers often work while ill because economically, they have to. The results are clear: We are headed to work sick due to that pressure, come hell or high water. Why do I feel guilty taking a sick day?

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Holiday Messages Made Easy

Laughing all the Way to Work

I just received this article written by Lynn Gaertner-Johnston of Syntax Training and wanted to pass it along to you as it has some great tips for holiday messaging. I know you will be spending the holidays without your wife, Kathryn, for the first time. Words for Holiday Messages. Happy holidays! Happy holidays!

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. What if you searched out cool articles about clients’ hobbies and shared them? Keep them coming back.

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

Success

With the Association of American Medical Colleges reporting that more than 150 million people are living in federally designated mental health professional shortage areas, accessibility is a topic that needs to be discussed. This article originally appeared in the March/April issue of SUCCESS Magazine. Photography By Nick Onken.

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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

Success

His mouth is blocked by a powder-blue medical face mask, but I can see a smile forming in his eyes. It is the peaceful realization that we are whole and complete just as we are, despite the anger, sadness, joy, frustration and excitement that may come in and out from time to time,” writes the study’s author in a Greater Good magazine article.

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The words we borrow from other languages to talk about work and wellbeing

Workplace Insight

Or, as another philosopher Bertrand Russell put it: “One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.”

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How to overcome the downsides of contract work

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If they weren’t, I wouldn’t have written an article about why I’ve spent two years as a contractor myself. The benefits aren’t as good It differs from company to company, but basic employee benefits can cover everything from childcare leave to medical costs. Here’s everything about contract jobs people don’t tell you about.