Making A Mid-Life Career Change?
June 13, 2011 by Charlene · Leave a Comment
Midlife is a lot like being a teenager again–only with more wisdom. Making a career change is a lot different than meeting with your career counsellor and scouring the various college catalogs. You may not stay out all night and run with a wild crowd, but many in their 40s and 50s experience the same [...]
A Meaningful Career Path Begins With Your Unique Ability
May 16, 2011 by Charlene · Leave a Comment
Whats the most important part of your life? In an interview late in his life, the psychologist Sigmund Freud was asked to expound on what he felt were the most important constituents of life. His answer? “Liebe und Arbeit.” Love and work. This is hardly a surprise: For most of human history, the meaning of [...]
Career Reinvention – 7 Tips to Get You Started!
Are you an employee, who suddenly finds it necessary to reinvent your career due to the economy, a layoff or being downsized? Or, do these uncertain times simply inspire you to make a change? Or have you been thinking it’s time for you to have more control over your time, schedule and your life? If [...]
Use ALL Your Interests To Create The Life You Love!
April 11, 2011 by Charlene · Leave a Comment
Could you have too many Passions or Interests? Don’t choose one, use them all to create the life you love! Meet Jane. Jane is nearing 50 and has followed one career path her entire life. Although she hated it 5 years into it, it’s what she knows, it’s what she’s comfortable with but now the [...]
Green Career? Shorten Your Path in 5 Steps
April 8, 2011 by Charlene · Leave a Comment
There’s no doubt about it. Making the transition into a green career can be a long, drawn out journey. If you aren’t clear where you are going, it’s extremely hard to arrive at your destination. If you don’t know what actions to take to get where you are going, you can invest a lot [...]
Earn Green by Going Green (…without sailing across the world)
Imagine you’ve left your marriage, you’ve left your job, you’ve left your house and even your beloved little red sports car for one thing. To sail the Pacfic Ocean? Your satellite phone is broken and you have not had human contact for weeks. The oars are busted and are held together by duct tape. Your [...]
Leaps of Faith? Key to Having More Control Over Your Life.
Some people go their whole life without taking a risk, without straying from the path they’re on, no matter how unpleasant it is. Others leap from one adventure to the next, seemingly with no need for security or routine. Most of us, though, fall somewhere in the middle. We choose our leaps of faith carefully, [...]
Dream Jobs Are Created (7 tips to Start Creating Your Dream Job Today!)
February 21, 2011 by Charlene · 2 Comments
Dream jobs (and their creation) are as unique as your DNA. Where you want to work? How you want to work? There are all sorts of dream jobs. But you’re the only one who knows which dream job and which career choice will make you happy. Maybe your dream consists of hoping that a position, [...]
Need A Career Change? Boost Your Creativity in 7 Steps!
July 27, 2010 by Charlene · 2 Comments
Career Success without a Real Job by Ernie Zelinski is founded on the principle that “we’re never at a shortage for money only for good ideas”. It’s true that we stay on the job we hate or the career path we despise because the “good idea” avoids us. Or do we avoid the good idea? [...]
Career Change Begins With A Change In Your Environment
July 19, 2010 by Charlene · 3 Comments
Want a Career Change but not sure which way is up? You may benefit from a change in environment. Do you feel like you just don’t belong? Maybe you don’t dislike your boss or your co-workers, but you’re bored? Maybe you find the tasks you’ve been assigned not only boring but quite frankly annoying? You [...]
