Fear of Making the Wrong Choice
Fear of making the wrong choice is one reason we may not commit to a career, market niche, or organizational strategy. “What if I/we choose …
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Is Everyone Rowing In The Same Direction?
Here’s an exercise: Ask everyone at work today, “Who are we? What does our organization do? For whom? Why do we do that?” If your organization …
Nudge Your Career (and your organization’s strategy) Back Into Alignment
When we are in our SweetSpot, work ceases to be a stress or struggle. Where there is stress or struggle, we are out of our …
Meaning?
Is there an ultimate answer to the question, “Why?” Are life, the universe, and everything teeming with meaning? Or is it all particles and waves that …
Career Checkup
The criteria: Our work is successful and meaningful to the extent that it uses our talents, engages our passions, meets our needs/wants/desires, and helps others (individuals and/or …
Discover For Yourself
Don’t push yourself to do all the things on your growing to-do list. Don’t be driven by other people’s opinions. Trust yourself and others. Go for true …
The Simpler Way To Land A Job
Landing a job can be a hard and unrewarding endeavor. We can waste time and drain our psyches by trolling job boards, sending out résumés, …
Four Ways To Know You’re In the Right (or Wrong) Career
Work that doesn’t use your talents is work you should have others do. Work that doesn’t engage your passions is a dead end. Work that doesn’t meet your needs, …
The One Success Error We All Make
To be successful, we must first define success. Looking inside ourselves for definitions of success leads to satisfaction, creativity, energy, happiness, and/or meaning. Looking outside …
What To Do With All Those Great Ideas
We can come up with some pretty great ideas for projects, businesses, jobs, and adventures we’d love to do. They can occur to us in …