Be thoughtful in quitting your job and moving to another, seemingly better position, being sure to weigh the reasons why you're making the move. Address any ongoing grievances in the workplace and compare each job apples-to-apples before deciding to move on, writes Julie Koepsell.

Don't procrastinate with difficult tasks, and in fact, you should start the day completing the hardest tasks first, suggests Julia Tell. If you "eat a frog" early in the day, it is sure to be the worst thing you do all day, and the rest of the day will be smooth sailing, Mark Twain once said.

Networking internally has its advantages, including getting a leg up on new job openings within the company and learning new skills by reaching out to people in other departments. Build in-office rapport with colleagues by opening up a simple dialogue and eventually asking to grab a cup of coffee or lunch with them.

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to overturn Initiative 77, a ballot measure approved by voters in June that would have raised the minimum wage for tipped workers. The repeal bill, which also includes requirements for sexual harassment training, has been sent to Mayor Muriel Bowser for a final signature.

Explaining to a hiring manager or recruiter how much you love your work is a more effective strategy for getting hired, compared with talking about your motivation to advance your career, suggests a five-study research paper published in the journal ScienceDirect. The studies suggest most job seekers fail to understand the value of intrinsic motivation during the interviewing process.

Part of navigating the lifetime career road map is understanding that when interviewing for a job, you're not only interviewing for the job itself, but also for a job in the future as you move up within the company. To get hired, you must succeed at proving yourself for the job today and the job in the future, suggests David Jensen.

Studies have shown working long hours can adversely affect health; furthermore, most workers do not get more done by working longer hours. "Long work hours erode a person's mental and physical health, because it leaves less time to eat well and look after themselves properly," according to a study published in Social Science & Medicine.

According to research by neuroscientists at Emory University, dogs can understand some human language when they have been trained to differentiate between objects. The study had owners and their respective dogs identify objects with two different textures only using speech -- without gestures or change in tone -- and then dogs were scanned in MRI machines to observe their brain pattern while seeing the objects.