Got Fear? How To Overcome Fear of A Career Change.
June 1, 2011 by Charlene · Leave a Comment
You’ve been in the same job for 30 years and it looks like there is no end in sight to the dread you feel going to work everyday. You know there’s more to life but you can’t seem to put your finger on it. It’s beginning to look like it will take a catastrophic circumstance [...]
Career Change Fears and HOW to Get Over Them …
May 31, 2011 by Charlene · Leave a Comment
Change is scary. Changing Careers is scarier. There I said it. But because it’s scarier, doesn’t mean its something you have to avoid forever. Fear often stands between us and our ability to make decisions, take action, or even ask for what we want—even to know what we really want. It is the gatekeeper of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Career Change Advice | Develop a Kangaroo Attitude!
July 13, 2010 by Charlene · 9 Comments
Changing Careers always seems to desirable when you are marveling at the in-effectiveness of your superiors. It’s the middle of the week and you’re feeling like you’re about to blow a gasket or get a heart attack. The boss has asked for yet another impossible task to be done and you are quite sure there [...]
Practical Career Change Advice|Pursue Lasting Happiness
June 30, 2010 by Charlene · Leave a Comment
Changing Careers when you get right down to it is about happiness. It’s really about a new income level, new status, new hours. It’s all in the hope that life would get better. That you would be happier. Happiness and its pursuit is a life time work. Will the new car, or the flat screen [...]
Career Assessments – Who Needs Them? And Why?
Career Assessments have long been the foundation of choosing careers. The reliance on these tests can sometimes be over-emphasized and the results -misleading. One bad mood or bad day could change the results unintentionally. Even over thinking the answers could lead you the wrong way. I’ve provided 4 assessments for you to choose from. Mostly [...]
Why Bother With Job Satisfaction?
June 18, 2010 by Charlene · 4 Comments
Why Bother? Have you ever said that to yourself? I know for me, I say it when I think of all the “work” that’s involved in completing a task and just throw my hands up and say “WHY BOTHER” when I don’t see the progress I like. For you is it usually when you’re facing [...]
Dream Career -Are you Rationalizing (Ration-a-lying) It Away?
June 16, 2010 by Charlene · 3 Comments
Do you rationalize Your Dream Career Away? How often have you gotten a good idea only to be explained away by “reasonable and valid” excuses? Have you not taken action on that deeply embedded inclination you’ve been feeling? While in La Jolla, CA on a training conference, I learned a thing or two about rational-lying. [...]
