Happy Thanksgiving this week!

I sincerely hope that anyone who is traveling for the holiday this week will do so safely and that it’s a great time for you!

Holidays can be great times to relax and spend time with loved ones.

For some, however, it can be hard if they feel detached or disconnected from family and friends.

If that’s you, please find someone or somewhere you can connect with. Know that you are worthy of love and acceptance. Find a way to serve someone. Reach out to someone else in need. Service brings connection and gratitude.

I recognize this is a departure from the typical topics we share in an engineering newsletter, but it’s what I felt needed to be said as we start here.

In today’s newsletter:

• Curing the Monday blues

• The power of Pareto

• Achieving your dreams

• Hot jobs

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How to Cure the Monday Morning Blues in an Unexpected Way

Do you dread going to work every week? Every Day?

Depression, anxiety, and burnout from work are real. The "Monday Blues" are no fun for anyone.

If that's the case for you, that could be the job and the environment that you have allowed yourself to be in.

But let's flip the script—what can you change? How do you feel about the people you work with? Can you take personal responsibility for the choices you've made that have led you to where you are?

You're much more likely to invite better behavior out of others and be a change creator if you lead with more positive attitudes and mindsets.

You have the power to make changes inside of you. You can change yourself, which will change your environment. If that means getting a new work situation, great. If you can make a change where you're at, that's great, too.

But as long as you accept that things are just happening to you rather than take charge of what you can do, things will probably stay the same. Learn more by watching the video below!

How will you make a decision to tackle your week a bit differently?

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CAREER TIPS

Applied for Dozens of Jobs with No Response? Change Your Approach

Unfortunately, so many people (and organizational cultures) focus way too much on the number of hours people work rather than the impact and results they deliver.

This doesn't have to be the case.

When we change our focus to impact, not hours, we can actually get more important things done in less time.

Use the Pareto Principle or 80/20 Rule. It suggests that 80% of our results are due to only 20% of our effort. If we can focus our time and effort on the 20% of actions that can deliver the greatest results, we can have a greater impact on our organizations and work fewer hours.

Grow your career by focusing on work impact, not work hours. You'll be amazed at how it changes things!

How will you shift your time?

 HOT JOBS OF THE WEEK

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📚 BOOK RECOMMENDATION

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Many professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and ruminate on what matters most to them. While they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. 

But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, enabling the dreams of others, and seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." — Randy Pausch