Remember when you were first learning to drive and the driver’s ed movie talked about taking in “The Big Picture?” It taught us to scan the whole world around us so that we wouldn’t miss anything (and potentially get in an accident.)
When you’re driving, the last thing you want to wear is blinders. [...]
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Have you ever been reading a book and suddenly realized that although your eyes have been moving the whole time, you haven’t really read any of the last two pages? Somehow your brain went on reading “automatic pilot.” If you care about what you’re reading, you’ll usually go back and re-read the section.
I’ve been told [...]
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Feeling a little uninspired? Not enough creative umph to get you through the day?
When’s the last time you took your inner artist on a date?
Years ago, I worked through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.
Artist Dates are one of the tools she recommends to help keep your creativity flowing.
Simply choose a new place to explore or [...]
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People have been asking me to share a bit about my own personal career epiphany. So here goes…
I like to tell people that I “escaped professional misery” in 1997.
But believe me, it was a long road getting there!
After graduating from college, I struggled to find a professional job. Eventually, through a temporary help [...]
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Time and time again, as I’m teaching classes, I hear the frustration and desperation of countless talented people who simply can’t find a job playing by the old rules of job searching. Wallpapering the town with dozens of resumes seems to yield few, if any, actual job interviews.
It’s not that the work isn’t out there. [...]
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Please read this blog post by Matt Cheuvront the next time you say something along the lines of,
“Yeah, but, you have to be realistic!”
Dare to be Bold
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Is it possible that you, like me, are a bit of a complication junkie?
Today I am considering the merits of simplification.
What would it be like to spend a few months making decisions based on this single criteria:
“What’s the simplest way to approach this?”
How much easier would your work and your life become?
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It’s hardly a big secret: The world is changing rapidly. Not just the world of work – but the entire world.
For example: just 15 years ago, the internet was an unknown quantity to most of us. Today, most of us organize our worklife – in fact, our life in general – around this ubiquitous, invisible, [...]
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Here’s an unusual question for you…
How far are you willing to stretch your wings with your talent?
Do you play it safe most of the time – flying under the radar?
Or do you actively seek out new opportunities to see if you can cause a flap?
Take a moment to see what happens when two men from [...]
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Feel like you could do anything if you only knew what it was?
I have a few important ideas up my sleeve and I’m getting ready to share them with you…
In April’s Free Teleclass, you’ll learn about all the clues you have to find and put together to solve your career puzzle!
Don’t wait to discover:
* How [...]
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