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How to Deal With Mansplaining at Work

Head up! The term mansplaining is relatively new, but the concept is an old one. If you’re not familiar, the term refers to when someone (most often a man, thus mansplain) explains something to someone (typically a female) in a condescending or patronizing way. If you’re a woman, then chances are this happens to you on a weekly if not daily basis. However, figuring out what to do about it can be a bit challenging. About 10 years ago, I worked as a barista part time as an excuse to get out of the house and to satisfy my coffee addiction. I was a pretty successful writer already at the time, but I loved the human interaction on a regular basis (working from home can get lonely!). One day, a regular customer came in and started to explain a new web app to me. He had gotten an important detail wrong, and when I politely corrected him explained to me in a condescending way that I was wrong because he had read an article in PC Magazine about it and pleasantly suggested I should “See if my

How Stay Positive in Trying Times

Staying positive is much better than focusing on the negative, but that is much easier said than done. If staying positive during adversity was easy, there wouldn’t be millions of dollars going to books, classes, special speakers, and the like regarding the subject. For most people, focusing on the good things that are happening is hard when so many other things are going wrong. It is challenging, but it’s not impossible. There are some things that you can try to focus on when things go wrong that could help you keep the proper perspective and avoid negativity. Focus on the facts One of the worst things you can do when things go wrong is to dwell on them. Usually, this leads to pessimistic thoughts, which in turn leads to more negativity. However, many times these are only thoughts and not really facts. Therefore, it’s important to separate facts from fiction and stick to the facts. Be Grateful When life takes a bad turn we tend to forget about all the good things in life we alre

Trump to issue orders targeting Dodd-Frank, retirement advice rule

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders on Friday to review the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms and halt a Labor Department rule designed to curb potential conflicts among brokers who give retirement advice, according to a senior White House official. Trump's move marks a step toward making good on a campaign promise to dismantle the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, which was passed in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Earlier this week during a meeting with business owners, Trump described the Wall Street reform law as "a disaster." The official said the Dodd-Frank executive order will ask the Treasury secretary to work with other regulators to determine what the administration can do to fix issues with measures issued under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. "There are quite a few things that we could do on Dodd-Frank ... that we think will have fairly immediate and dramatic impact," the official told reporters at a briefing on Thursda