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A New Year, A New You

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: December 31, 2018

With the tradition of New Year resolutions, perhaps one of the most important things you can do is reflect on your own happiness. Striving for goals that aren't aligned with your fundamental nature is an uphill battle. Why not discover the strengths that are unique to you and find the path that is the most natural for you to walk?

Did You Choose the Right Career?

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: November 26, 2018

If you don't truly understand how you are hardwired, all of your efforts to find the career that is completely in your wheelhouse will be nothing more than a life-long slog of trial and error.

Ikigai: Finding Your Personal Happiness

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: September 3, 2018

The Japanese have a concept called ikigai that roughly translates into English as 'reason for being.' Pursuing this state can be made much easier through the Core Values Index psychometric assessment. Its ability to identify the areas of activity within a person's life where they will feel the most fulfillment and happiness is powerful and life-changing.

What is Your Four-minute Mile?

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: August 6, 2018

Each of us has a collection of mental or emotional barriers we feel are insurmountable. Sometimes we are fully aware of our capabilities and limitations (imagined or real) but more often we are unaware of our true strengths. Because of this, we pursue life paths that may not be compatible with our innate, unchanging nature.

Getting To Know Your Authentic Self: A Personal Journey With the CVI

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: July 16, 2018

After learning more about how the CVI works and reflecting on my past experiences, I realized that whenever I was in a place that contradicted my profile, it took a lot more work and effort to achieve success than would have been necessary if I had been living within my 'happy place.'

What Do You Do?

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: July 2, 2018

Imagine you're at a networking event or a neighborhood block party or maybe chatting with other parents at your kid's soccer game. You meet some new people and the dreaded question comes up: "What do you do?"

Do What You Love (And Get Paid For It)

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: April 16, 2018

We all have heard the aphorism that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. The more pragmatic advice tells us to identify what we love to do and figure out how to get paid for it. This is easier said than done, right? Maybe not.

What Every Employee Fears: Failure to Meet Expectations

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: February 19, 2018

I always dreaded getting annual performance reviews, even though they usually went well. This one was different. "I gave you a ‘failure to meet expectations' score because you didn't achieve your objectives for the year," my boss told me. The problem was I had no idea what my objectives were.

Understanding Your Conflict Resolution Strategy

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: January 2, 2018

Each core value has a particular way of dealing with conflict and fear. Everyone feels challenged or out of their element at times and the way we react to these situations depends entirely on our core values. One of the most useful insights provided by the full CVI report is how your particular CVI profile handles conflict. We call it Conflict Resolution Strategies and it provides powerful information that can change your personal and professional life in a profound way.

The Compulsion of an Author

By: Steve Williamson , VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted: December 25, 2017

I wrote three novels in three years. It took a lot of time, but it wasn't work. Like an incoming tide, it was something I futilely tried to hold off before I finally relented and wrote the first page, and then the first chapter, and then the first book, and so on. It didn't take effort to write those books, it took effort not to.

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