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the most disliked career question that ever existed (+ a worksheet for your answer because it doesn’t have to be this way)
Most people (and clients) I know hate being asked: “So, what do you do?” The conversation is going great. You’re connecting and laughing and then suddenly the other person slips in the dreaded question. You tell them your job title: “Oh me .. um … I’m a Career Counselor.” And you hope the question is…
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your most meaningful career plan ever (as a poem)
Your career isn’t a job title – in fact, a job title is just packaging to say how you spend your day. A focus on the packaging keeps you away from meaningful career planning. So, let’s quickly plan your career. And I do mean quickly. Get ready to write it down and keep it in…
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whatever your work, let it be how you care (for you + others)
“Not ALL people can or will follow their passion even if they could find it … Someone’s still gotta take orders at McDonald’s, haul the garbage, answer the phones, install the cable. If all of us were destined for ‘living the life we were meant to live,’ nobody would do those jobs!” If you think…
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what are your career plans for 2014?
A career is a long and arduous thing when you’re not inspired. Retirement can’t come fast enough. In contrast: When you are inspired through what you contribute in your work, there isn’t anywhere else you’d rather be or anything else you’d rather be doing. Really. (And I know that you secretly know this already.) Since…
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getting in the mood … for career bliss
“Working on your career” isn’t the most inspiring thought to hold in your mind. In fact, it usually conjures up the feeling of rolling a rather large boulder up a big hill without really understanding the purpose of the task. So, my advice is: Don’t bother working on your career. Focus more on getting in…
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my top secret tips for writing thank-you notes that make you feel all sparkly inside + at peace with however life goes
The thank you note: the grand flourish that indicates your genuine interest in pursuing your candidacy for a job. Let’s set the scene first: The interview was magic and you’d really love to move things to the next level … … but you don’t want to sound creepy, clingy, cheesy. Right? I understand. When something…
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the one thing you can stop telling yourself to unblock career bliss
We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world so that we know what to do. As a collection, they helped us to create the path to now. They’re supposed to make things feel easier. Except when they don’t. And when they don’t, they need to be re-visited. Take for example, this painfully popular…
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what’s after your ‘happily ever after’ (exactly)?
Fairy tales end with the flourish: ‘happily ever after.’ And while that sounds like a nice way to live, most people I know are actually afraid of living ‘happily ever after.’ Here’s why: ‘Happily ever after’ sounds like a boring existence because in the fairy tale, that’s where the story ends. It’s everything before those…
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play with and in your career (plus a personal update)
I write about career bliss. You know that. Especially if we’ve kept in touch for a little while via my posts. But I think that you also know that I don’t write about career as being separate from life. Career and life go together and are together for best results at feeling alive. I believe…
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what does your soul want for you?
It’s common to watch someone else and wonder about their behavior. I mean, sometimes people seem awfully strange – especially at work. Right? And so, as a fellow human being you find yourself wondering or (better yet) making up stories for why they are doing what they are doing. Amusing, I know. I used to…