Four Ways to Stay Motivated When You're in a PR Career Slump

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Four Ways to Stay Motivated When You're in a PR Career Slump

No matter how grounded you are, and no matter how fervently you believe that there is enough PR work out there for everybody, it’s difficult to keep your head up when your friends' careers seem to be accelerating faster than yours - especially if they too are solo PR pros, and if you work in the same city.

We all know that envy is not healthy, but it happens — even to the most emotionally evolved of us. So what do you do? How do you pull yourself out of the funk and stay motivated?

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You’re here! Welcome.

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You’re here! Welcome.

Welcome to The PR Glow Up! I have been mulling over the launch of this blog for what feels like a lifetime – reviewing years of “notes to self,” reflecting on lessons shared by my mentors and, most importantly, identifying the skills, capabilities and habits that I believe can fuel a great career in public relations.

It would be easy enough to let it all marinate forever – after all, learning is a lifelong pursuit – but there’s never going to be a definitive list of dos and don’ts. However, as I tell clients all the time, at a certain point you just have to declare “pencils down.” This thing isn’t going to write itself, is it?

Wait, though. What’s a glow up?

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