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It may not feel like it at times, but you live in the most fortunate sliver of humanity.

When you’re a leader, giving feedback, both positive and negative, comes with the territory. But not everyone is comfortable giving it. Sarah Green, a senior associate editor with the Harvard Business Review, recently scoured HBR’s blog for the site’s best advice for how to give negative feedback. Here are her five tips:

As hard as we might try to accomplish everything we've set our minds to do, obstacles and roadblocks can stand in the way of our success. While we may normally take these obstacles and roadblocks in stride, some days it seems like nothing goes right for us. The result? We feel down and wonder what it's going to take to get ourselves back on track.

This is when it's time to take a step back from whatever it is we're doing, recharge our batteries, and inspire ourselves to try again and again--until we achieve our goal. Here are 17 super positive quotes that will inspire you to be exceptional--and to reach for the stars (and catch them!).

Working from home is everyone's dream, right? If that's true, then why did 60 percent of the employees who participated in a Stanford University work-from-home experiment opt to go back to corporate HQ?

The 2013 study offered a sampling of employees in the air travel and hotel booking industry an opportunity to work from home for nine months. Surprisingly, many of them had a very lonely experience. After only a few months, 50 percent of the volunteers and 10 percent of the non-volunteer group asked to return to their cubicles.

Loneliness and lack of social interaction were cited as the No. 1 reason for abandoning home offices, but these aren't the only drawbacks. How can you have your cake and eat it, too? Because I've successfully worked from home for nearly 16 years, I consider myself an expert on the topic.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack ObamaCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absense of fear. Mark TwainYour life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim RohnI've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. Maya AngelouThe only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them. Tony Robbins