I Don’t Know What I Want To Be When I Grow Up!
Perhaps you think you’re the only one who says, “I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.” Actually, it’s more common than you think. I even...
Career
062: Intentional Career
Have you been intentional in your career choices? Peter Strand is a designer, dancer, opera singer, web programmer and much more with a compelling story. He’s driven a New York...
Disappointments
What do you do when life does not work out the way you hoped it would? Do you feel defeated and let it destroy you? Do you get bitter or...
I Quit!
“Quitters never win and winners never quit.” So said American football legend Vince Lombardi in what has become conventional wisdom. But sometimes, conventional wisdom isn’t very wise. In his little...
057: What Do You Want Your Career (life) To Look Like?
Jessica Gemm is Director of Talent (how cool is that title) for a group that helps connect people to non-profits. She has worked in various positions as an executive coach...
Personal SWOT
SWOT is an acronym for an assessment often used in teams; it stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. But a SWOT analysis is not just a business tool. It can be...
Effective Presentations
Perhaps you have sat through ill-crafted presentations with PowerPoints that just about killed you! Well don’t do the same to others! If you are one who has to give speeches,...
What Would You Do?
Would you kiss butt to get a promotion? Enjoy a guest post by Terry W. Blevins: When in high school, my son told me that his personal ethics prevented him...
Stop Saying You’re Fine!
According to motivational speaker, Mel Robbins, one of the worst words in the English language is, “fine!” We get stuck and fail to move forward because we tell ourselves (and...
Opportunity
You ended up grabbing the first thing that came along because you needed to pay the rent and eat. The job didn’t turn out they way you thought it should....
Symbiosis
The fifth growth force found in nature that we are exploring in this series is symbiosis. Each growth force, when applied to our life can increase the potential for health...
Being and Doing
Are you chronically busy? Or are you sometimes content to just sit, enjoy the moment, and be? The Western world has pretty much made an idol of busyness. Work is...
Spending Energy
Where Will Your Energy Go in 2015? As I get older, I am more aware of the limits of my energy. So when I think about having another year to,...
How Successful People Think
I saw a great movie. Well it wasn’t a great MOVIE, but it was a GREAT STORY about a GREAT MAN. The film was Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story....
Roles
We all have to fit into various roles in our families, careers and life. Here is an article about adjusting and making roles fit you rather just making you fit...
Reasons Resumes are Rejected
Are you looking for work? Not getting responses to your resumes? Statistics show that most jobs are obtained through interpersonal contacts. Your chances of finding a job by posting your...
Finding Your Why
What do Martin Luther King, Apple, and the Wright brothers have in common? They think, act, and communicate the same way–and it’s opposite to everyone else. So says Canadian, Simon...
Finding Your Jobs
As I watched the live broadcast of the recent Apple Developer’s Conference, I couldn’t help but think of the late Steve Jobs. He was the mastermind of Apple hardware and...
Why Getting Control Of It ALL Is So Important
“We like to pretend sometimes that we are made up of a system of buckets. We like to think we can live, ‘what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,’ moments...
Career Goals
“ If you don’t set goals for yourself, you’re doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.” – As cited by Dan Miller in EntreLeadership podcast, Dec 19, 2011 Miller...
