Tired of Giving Up On Your Resolutions? Make This Year’s Resolutions Powerful
Every year, through an infinite number of processes, we all sit down, review the past year, and set resolutions for the next year. Some of us write them down, some of us share it with our loved ones, and some of us just ring in the new year with a glass of champagne. No matter how we go about it, we all have some way of acknowledging that the past year has ended and that a new beginning awaits us with the coming...
Read MoreConnect the Dots…Have a Possibility Oriented Mindset
Think about those few people who are treated universally with high regard, congratulated as thought leaders, and who one can say has truly “made” it. What makes them so different from us? Are they so different? Or did they all start here one day: where we are at now. These leaders are people who have consistently challenged themselves, motivated themselves, to break beyond the proverbial box. They...
Read MoreWhat Should My Career Be: Step 2 - Top 100 Things To Do In Your Lifetime
After determining what you truly enjoy from Step 1 of the What Should My Career Be series, the second step is to determine what does a meaningful life look like for you. Some of you may recall in the 15 Strategies of Work/Life Balance post, I mention making a list of 100 things to do in your lifetime. Jim Lafferty, who introduced me to the 15 strategies, talks about this list in a very unique way. Time after...
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What Should My Career Be? - Step 1: Growing Self Awareness
This is the first of a series of posts on answering the key question “What Should My Career Be?” Doesn’t that sound like a doozy of a question? Let me define doozy for you: if you do a Google search, you will find that there are 1.5 billion competing domains for helping a high school student find a college major. And that just talks about high school students. If you add in college students who...
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“I’m sorry, but I just don’t like what I liked yesterday…”
“…I’m a tough client.” If you’re wondering what I have been up to, I’ve been spending a lot of time training myself on various tools and developing my coaching model by practicing with friends as clients. Specifically, I’ve been reading up on Myers Briggs and Rockport Institute. I’ve pushed myself to take this to the next level through integrating these assessments...
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Untwist the Garden Hose
I had a great conversation with Tim Webster, the author of Technically Social blog and one of the owners of Ingenu, a company that develops Android products. Besides providing amazing customer service and freely sharing a broad collection of social media tips, he’s developing apps for Android devices, getting married soon, living his 9-5 full time job. The even more awesome thing about Tim is that he has...
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15 Strategies for Work Life Balance
In my last post, we talked about prioritization and assigning higher importance to the tasks that take you to the next level in your goals. This allows you to move your focus from the small details of life to the details that matter. Recently, I helped to facilitate a workshop on the currently hot topic of work/life balance. The workshop was based on the 15 strategies championed by one of the great gurus of...
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The Single Easiest Tip to Prioritizing
One of the great benefits of coaching is being able to surround yourself with brilliance. As a student, one of the most effective ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else. As I go through sessions with clients, it is so wonderful to hear someone talk through their thoughts and arrive at a brilliant conclusion. These brilliant conclusions can be applied to my client’s situation, as well as in...
Read MoreInternal vs External Validation
“Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” I read this quote on a friend’s profile today and it struck me – how many times have I not moved forward with something because of needing everyone’s validation that it is the right thing to do? The Need For Validation I managed to strike up a 30 min conversation with the cashier at FedEx this past week – her friend had just lost his job...
Read MoreBack to Basics
Today, I want to start talking about making key changes in your life. This process is composed of three steps: 1. The realization that you desire change in your life 2. Defining what change you want to make 3. Developing and executing a plan to make that change happen sooner rather than later I’m assuming you are already at step 1. Steps 2 and 3 are broad ideas that are composed of many sub-tasks. Today,...
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