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9 practices for being authentic in your career
Authenticity isn’t easy. I won’t lie and tell you that it is. Especially in your career. Everything is fine on the weekend. You’ve recovered from a week of coping because being inauthentic depleted your energy reserves. And then you go to work and deplete yourself again being less than your ideal or authentic self. (You’re…
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why a personality assessment can’t create self-awareness
You are oriented to life differently than some and the same as others. No, it’s not an overly insightful statement, but in moments you do forget. You need to make yourself right so that someone else can be wrong (or vice versa … yes, that happens). You can’t figure someone out that you want to…
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when to quit and when to persist
“I don’t want to work,” John* said. “Good. I don’t want you to work either.” I said. He looked surprised. Like I was a weirdo or something. “Aren’t you a Career Counselor? Aren’t you supposed to help people find work?” “Yes, I am a Career Counselor, but if I thought my job was what you…
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how to make believe for real
Intention is usually thought to be a goal or purpose, yet that’s not what I mean with the use of the word. I imagine us as artists who influence our lives with the paintbrushes and colors of our energy, outlook, desires, and attitude toward our role in the creating (our life) process. Whether aware of…
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credentials for career bliss come from real life (an untold story)
It feels like a lifetime ago now, but once upon a time I was once in a relationship with someone that I was terrified of. Career bliss was a dream, a fantasy, a fairy tale. An unrealistic concept. This is because I had accepted ‘stupid’, ‘loser’, and ‘slut’ as alternatives to my name and the…
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19 career advisor wisdom bites for your own career bliss
Being alive is a charming experience, isn’t it? You grow up and are deeply fearful of things that make you think that it’s just better to stay where you are. And while you’re at it, maybe stay how you are too. Hey – I bet sometimes you feel just like the people who were afraid…
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a portrait of career bliss
I had finished showering and was mostly dressed before I realized that I couldn’t find a pull over I wanted to wear. It was definitely in the pile of unfolded laundry in the guest room. Down the hall. I half jogged and half walked out of the bedroom door passing by our long corridor that…
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a prescription for job bliss
Here’s what I know about you: You spend time and enormous amounts of energy wishing that the process of finding job bliss were different than it is. Especially when you’re on the brink of want for that next career stepping stone to appear. If you are getting frustrated with the online application process in particular,…
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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…