"Bring Your 'A' Game" is a common expression in athletics which means to arrive with your top attitude and ability because with today's competition we're going to need it. In life, every day is game day. You simply can achieve...
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50 Ways to Stay Motivated
The initial energy that you put into your job search will end. The longer the process drags on the more difficult it will be to stay motivated. You may not even recognize that you are losing momentum until you're in...
8 Thoughts That Are Really Bad for Your Career Development
The #1 barrier to achieving career success is you. You are standing in the way of your own success with negative distortions. I am often my clients' best cheerleader, while they act as their own worst enemy beating themselves up...
The 50 Career Books You Must Have
I have read and collected dozens of career books in my over 20 years as a practitioner. Recently, I was thinking that if I had the task of building a career library of only 50 books, which ones would I...
The 4th Stage of Career Development: Career Management – Part 2
As I did in a previous article, I want to continue to outline some career management strategies that can keep you in solid career shape. 11. Obtain New Skills/Education/Certifications - Never stop learning. Take advantage of all the training resources...
50 Ways to Be Healthy and Happy
Just like success, happiness can mean many things to many people. Often we think of it as a mental state filled with positive feelings. In order to live an authentic life, the time you spend must be in alignment with...
The 4th Stage of Career Development: Career Management – Part 1
I tell my clients there are three sequential stages of the career development process: 1) Self-Assessment, 2) Career Exploration and 3) Action Plan. Each stage has a question to be answered. They are, respectively: 1) Who am I?, 2) Where...
The 6 Stages of the Job Life Cycle
Most jobs are not set up to satisfy us for a lifetime. A job has a life cycle characterized by various stages. This movement from Idealize to Devalue is different for everyone. Some employees even skip stages. Moving through each...
12 Steps for Climbing to the Top of Your Career
I have been climbing mountains across this country for more than 30 years. There are plenty of analogies between climbing to the top of mountains and climbing to the top of your career. Here are some lessons from the top....
The Five Career Stages
I always ask my clients their age. I don't mean to make them feel bad about how old they are. But someone that's 55 is at a different stage in their career and life than someone that's 25 or 45. ...