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career bliss is close at hand + it’s my birthday
‘Cause it’s my birthday and because I want to celebrate with you, today is the first ever Bliss Kit Pay What You Can Day. ***Pay What You Can Is Over for 2013. Thanks for joining in on the festivities! xo*** For the next 24 hours I’m offering the Bliss Kit at the price that you…
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claim your career bliss: interview with alex baisley
“I think I know what everyone’s biggest dream is underneath all of the dreams. I think that it’s a great daily life … [therefore] our only real work that’s actually going to feel on track all the time is anything to do with designing, building and improving our daily life.” – Alex Baisley, Head Lad…
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a father’s influence on a daughter’s career
It may seem strange to write about how my father influenced my career because I haven’t seen him since I was 4 years old. En route to growing older, because he was absent, I wanted these circumstances to mean that he would therefore have no influence on how I would choose to live my life…
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how a cover story can help you create career bliss
Sometimes it’s hard for people to accept what you have in mind for yourself. Especially when it comes to creating career bliss. And other times it’s hard for you to accept what you have in mind for yourself. When I left my last “real job,” I wasn’t ready to reveal what I really, really, really…
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define “dream job” before you get it or it may become your nightmare
In 1999 I was a student on a practicum with the Canadian Government and the new Director of my program came for the site visit. I welcomed her to the role as I was her very first site visit ever, explained my position where I worked and introduced her to my boss. I thought nothing…
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career bliss is actually all around
Two tales of how career bliss came to be: I had arrived early to my interview and my hair was a mess. It was raining outside and my hair had configured itself into a a wiry helmet of frizz around my head. I needed the ladies room mirror ASAP. No such luck. Building security was…
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A to Z for finding your dream job
It’s a time of year when you’re reflecting on what it would mean to have, to do, and be in your dream job. But what does it mean to stop dreaming and start creating it? That is … to find it. What does your dream job actually look like? How can you make it happen?…
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your personality test can’t get you career bliss (here’s why not)
Have you got career bliss yet from your personality test (or as I like to call it, your ego test) result? Likely not. The thing is that personality tests aren’t really useful career decision-making tools. So don’t use or rely on them for that. How come? (So glad you asked …) From what I’ve seen,…
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claim your career bliss: inteview with alyson mead
“It’s not like everyone is ‘yeah!’ when they [the people close to you] find out that you’re a psychic … It scares people … [the profession doesn’t have a good reputation] … I helped someone escape from an abusive husband [I tell the story in the book] … To not claim my [psychic] ability was…
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what career bliss and being professional have in common
Fear isn’t nondescript. It’s actually very specific. If you ask. If you listen. If you care to know. Fear says that career bliss is not only improbable, it’s impossible. Because, fear says: Being the real you at work is unprofessional. So you have this fear that if you were really yourself at work you would…