1. Taking things too personally - A thick skin is the ultimate office survival tool. Taking the daily gruffness of an office atmosphere personally is, frankly, a waste of time. Perhaps your boss is being terse with you because she can't kick her nicotine addiction. Maybe she is fighting with her boyfriend or husband. Or, quite possible, she's just having one of those days. Whatever the reason, taking workplace hostility personally is an unnecessary distraction that will surely stymie your climb up the ladder.

2. Not asking enough questions - Judy Woodruff, a senior correspondent for NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, put it like this: "College didn't teach me how to be a reporter, so I asked a ton of questions and learned that way." In addition, ambiguity is often the source of many office issues. Therefore, ask questions, clarify expectations, and don't be afraid to clarify your clarified expectations. Your boss would rather answer a question than correct a mistake.

3. Shrinking

Article originally appeared on WomansDay.com.

You Might Also Like:

10 Uses for Leftover Halloween Candy

9 Things You Didn't Know About Dreams

4 No-Carve Pumpkin Ideas

8 Bizarre Beauty Tricks

8 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex

Once upon a time,people would hold mass demonstrations and protests against,injustices shared by everyone.By organizing a protest or demonstration,many believe that action speaks louder than words.It can be complicated if you consider insurance issues,if not.....first pick a time and place,carefully consider how will folks get there,where they can park(no sense getting a parking ticket!),is there shade? Are you ready to deal with children?Remember they're curious too! How about advertising? Didja contact the media,nearby shops, the public? Be prepared for the fighters,as they will try to provoke ya! Make contact with friendly lawyers,they do exist! It goes smoother if ya don't have contraband,so no weapons please.Don't create more work for a busy p.d.! Have your folding table with your literature secured from da wind,close by.Ask speakers to be careful,there are troublemakers in the crowd.Yelling makes ya hoarse!Put up your flyers in friendly places,but DON"T forget to take them

Heidi Brod and Lisa StolovBy: Heidi Brod

In August 2005, I walked out on a dream. I was certain that there was no such thing as having it all.

My 20s were defined by an insatiable desire for success. I wanted a voice not just an image. I became obsessed with telling stories and I worked at a studio that valued heart, soul and passion above all else. A radical feminist in college, with a minor in Camille Paglia, I took pride in becoming my own "witty controversialist." I was ready to take on any institution and more than happy to settle into the front lines. As a woman in a man's world, film and the arts in general, most boardrooms are like a battlefield. If you fall, you've got an army of eager graduates ready to trample you and take your place. In short, you had to be good or you were just another casualty. Appropriately, I went to work for Harvey Weinstein at Miramax Films, a cowboy in his own right, at a time when Independent Film was on the rise. It was here I found my voice in story and learned

Mean Betty gives Miley Cyrus a lesson in Internet security.-Mean Betty, BettyConfidential.com

Miley

A question for you, kittens: How good is your Internet security? Are you passwords longer than the minimum recommended length? Are they a random collection of letters and numbers? Do you use a different password for each username you have? And perhaps most importantly, how likely is it that a random stranger would be able to guess your security prompt?

In all likelihood, your Internet security isn't as strong as it could be. But Meanie doesn't blame you, kittens; after all, she has just as much trouble as you do remembering random strings of letters and numbers! But Meanie, at least, isn't famous-well, not as famous as, say, Miley Cyrus. Meanie isn't a teen pop sensation, and she is perfectly fine with that (as the butler can attest, Meanie has very little patience for the teenybopper set. They're just so… bright. Ugh!). But dear Miley, you see, lives quite a public life, so

"Crazy like a fox" Casey Anthony on TV with Barbara Walters: A ratings bonanaza!-Mean Betty, BettyConfidential.com

barbara walter casey anthony

Casey Anthony's been in hiding almost since her trial ended. Mean Betty thinks she's like a groundhog, except that when Casey finally pops up out of her cave, there won't be a celebration.

It looks like Barbara "tell me what type of tree you'd be" Walters is dying to have an exclusive one-on-one with the alleged child murderer. Saturday night, she was spotted leaving Orso, a ritzy New York City resto with Casey's lawyer, Jose Baez, his wife and actor Frank Langella. Why was Frank Langella there? Meanie knows he's a great method actor, but she doesn't think he could pull off doing Casey Anthony in a movie- he's too tall.

The truth, lambkins, is that La Walters pulled out all stops trying to persuade Casey's lawyer to let Barbara do the first interview with this newly-minted celeb. Kittens, she even went so far as to take him and his wife to a show starring

Scary news: Selena Gomez has received a death threat-and it's serious.-Lucia Peters, BettyConfidential.com

Selena

Scary news for Selena Gomez: She's received a death threat so serious that the LAPD's Threat Management Unit has been called in.

According to TMZ, a 46-year-old man named Thomas Brodnicki told his therapist that he was going to kill Selena. Brodnicki, who has a criminal history of stalking, reportedly said that not only did he travel all the way from Chicago to L.A. to meet her, but moreover, that he has had conversations with God about killing her.

Unsurprisingly, Selena has said that she is in "extreme fear," and worries that Brodnicki will carry out his threats if no intervention occurs. Brodnicki was picked up for mental evaluation in September after allegedly threatening to "scratch people's eyes out on the street;" he made his threats against Selena to his therapist during his evaluation.

Hang in there, Selena-the cops are on the job, and they're taking