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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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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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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…
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claim your career bliss: interview with hannah brencher
“It was just getting more tiring to do the job I was getting paid to do. Eventually I felt that I was doing a disservice to the company. I needed to re-evaluate and [it took the most courage] to do what it would take to leap out … I’ve never had this much peace in…
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do you have a ‘poo poo’ person in your life?
You know what you want to create in your life. You know that if you headed in a particular direction that you’d be happy. You even have supporters, encouragers and people imagining your success. Wanting it for you. Career bliss is possible. But you’re stalling. You’re not growing emotionally towards taking the steps in creating…
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claim your career bliss: interview with sean aiken
“What job would satisfy that potential [in me]? … I’m just going to be vulnerable and say: “Hey look! I have no idea.” … There’s always this sense that you’re supposed to have a plan … It’s okay not to know and to not have an answer … [so that you then can] know what…