Author: Peter Prichard

An article by Nicole Spector on December 16, 2017 in www.nbcnews.com/better described a study by the American Psychological Association released in February 2017 that found that two-thirds of Americans are stressed out over the future of the country, and the constant consumption of negative news was pinned as a major contributor. Dr. Steven Stosny, a therapist coined the term “headline stress disorder” that describes this reality.

In the first article published in early November 2019 in this series designed to help individuals have tools to have a positive impact in our fractured world I took you through exercises designed to help you have a sense of your purpose and/or goals in life. That article was followed by one that provided you with links to three self-assessments that can help you identify your strengths. This 3rd article is designed to help you identify potential employers that might fit your purpose and the strengths you have to offer. 

Everybody reading this article has multiple skills and competencies that will help create personal and career successes and positive impact. I will be including in this positive impact series of articles links to numerous assessments and exercises that increase the likelihood of reaching one’s goals. This article includes links to three strength assessments that have been used by millions of individuals worldwide.

A critical starting point for anybody looking to be successful in their life or career is to have a focus or purpose that helps organize one’s efforts. The clearer you are about where you are going the more likely you will be to get there. That is why I am starting this series of posts about having a positive impact and being successful personally and professionally with suggestions about how to create that clear direction.

The World Health Organization estimates that one billion people worldwide will die from tobacco related illness this century. Please read this article and commit to one or more of the many very practical actions that individuals can take to lessen deaths by tobacco products. I want to begin with a legislative act that has been presented to Congress that could significantly lessen deaths by tobacco products. Support the “Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019 (HR 2339)” According to The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids – http://www.tobaccofreekids.org – “Congress is […]

Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers developed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that is estimated to have been taken by over 50 million people worldwide. This article will explain how one of the most popular self-assessment instruments in history was created by these two women. Since I do all my writing, teaching and consulting regarding how people can have a positive impact, I will then demonstrate why taking that instrument has had such a positive impact on individuals from all over the world. Katherine C. Briggs became interested in type differences […]

My December 14th blog on Positive Impact at any Age and the video I posted on December 19th of the 15-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg giving her speech to the UN Climate Change Conference both demonstrated one necessary personality dimension you need to possess if you want to have a positive impact; self-awareness. People of any age who are having the kind of impact that are proven in those two posts usually have higher than average levels of self-awareness. Self-awareness is a key starting point in one’s ability to […]

In “Be A Changemaker” by Laurie Ann Thompson, Bill Drayton, Founder of Ashoka, an organization that finds and supports changemakers, writes, “If you change your world in middle or high school, you will change it again and again throughout your life.” This book provides several stories of young people who created positive impact in middle or high school. Eleven-year-old Jessica Markowitz heard about the fact that girls in Rwanda were often prevented from going to school and formed the organization Richard’s Rwanda that to date had raised $130,000 to help girls in […]