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Do our brains want to work or win lotteries?
Do you work hard for your money? If, yes, then you get more satisfaction from your cash than Paris Hilton! I know it’s hard to believe but researchers who study the pleasure center of the brain say...
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Beating the Peter Principle
If you watch the popular TV comedy The Office, you may find it hard to believe that Michael Scott–branch manager of paper company Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, PA–was ever competent at anything! He...
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How to Write Your Way into Your Right Work
Do you think about changing jobs? The power to do so is right under your nose…well, behind your nose actually! Stored in your brain are memories about events and activities you truly enjoyed in life...
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Your Story, My Passion
We are born, live, and die. This is our basic life story. We can’t do much about our beginnings or endings, but we have a lot of choice about how we live. Stories can help us do life better. I have...
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Dry Your Eyes
A client walked into my office recently saying that she needed a new career because her current one was making her sick; so sick, in fact, that she could not hold back the tears. In this case, as in so...
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Lesson from Las Vegas
I just got back from Sin City, the one that never sleeps, where all vices are on display and easily procured! Las Vegas is an oasis in the desert built years ago by the Mob. That’s quite a story in...
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Loving Your Work More Fun Than Driving a Jaguar
I met with a young man last week because he was worried about being left behind in the job stakes. He was thinking of switching programs from a BSc in Biology to something “more practical” like nursing...
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Find my Dream Job? I don’t even know what it looks like!
When it comes to career change, we often focus on the blind spots. This is especially true if we have been recognized and rewarded for a particular skill, even though the skill might leave us cold or...
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S…t…r…e…t…c…h your ambition to succeed
Another year has started. Did you promise yourself that this is the year, now is the time to change careers? You feel ready to make a real change in your life. Changing careers requires some internal...
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How you learn naturally can lead to working effortlessly
The way we learn most naturally can help us find and fit into a new job, sometimes a better job! For example, I can think of several clients who worked for many years in construction, then sustained...
View ArticleMaking a big career change late in life as a single mom
Vera Adamovich was very motivated to make a career change when she showed up at my office. She had that day signed a contract with another career consulting firm, heard of me, and then signed up with...
View Article“Oh, what a feeling…what a career change rush!”
Everyone’s heard a story about some successful businessperson who dumped a 20-year career to pursue something completely different and is happier for it. The famous Impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin,...
View Article3 Tips For Overcoming Job Loss
In recent weeks, I’ve spoken with several people who lost their jobs after 20+ years with the same employer. One person is angry and bitter and takes every opportunity to vent about the unfairness of...
View ArticleHope Springs Eternal for Career Change
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. – Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man What...
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It’s a New Year: Are your career goals organized around solving problems or...
You have a job now, right? And maybe you don’t like it. Or you’ve been thinking about a midlife career change but you don’t know what else you could do and still make money. So, now your life is taken...
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Is job search a problem to be solved or part of your creative process? – Part 2
In my previous blog on this topic, I asked ‘Are your career goals organized around solving problems or creating what you want?” Whether you are pursuing a short term goal, like getting a new job in the...
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Are you ready for the new world of work?
It’s easy to manage your career when the world of work is stable and follows a set of rules that both employers and employees agree upon. This was the ‘cradle-to-grave’ job security that formed an...
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Career change as a halfway house experience
I am working this year with several clients who describe their work life as a prison sentence: five days in the big house with weekend parole (ankle monitor attached!) About 95% of offenders are...
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S…t…r…e…t…c…h your ambition to succeed
Another year has started. Did you promise yourself that this is the year, now is the time to change careers? You feel ready to make a real change in your life. Changing careers requires some internal...
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How you learn naturally can lead to working effortlessly
The way we learn most naturally can help us find and fit into a new job, sometimes a better job! For example, I can think of several clients who worked for many years in construction, then sustained...
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