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Are you experiencing a “Dark Night of the Soul”?
November 8, 2010
In 1974, a book by Frederic Flach, M.D., The Secret Strength of Depression, was important to me in understanding how to move through what was seemingly the unrelenting chaos of a “dark night of the soul”. In his later book Resilience, he is focusing on the necessity of developing resilience to deal with our world,
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Get Off the Career Treadmill: The Yo Yo Career Model Equals Career Success!
October 10, 2010
The 21st Century Yo-Yo Career Model Adults who come in to see me for career coaching often say that feel like their career is on a treadmill going nowhere fast or their career feels like a roller coaster ride. One day everything is going up and then the next day with no warning – it’s
Read ArticleHow to Negotiate Your Salary
June 22, 2010
To get ready to land that new job or position, ideally you “do your homework.” This includes updating and fine-tuning your resumé, learning about the companies you’ll target and interview with, and discovering how to best present yourself in an interview. It’s also searching to find a position’s salary range before you apply for the
Read ArticleMark Twain Quotes and What they Mean to Me
June 7, 2010
When I was rapidly barreling down the academic highway to reach the Ph.D. destination, I spent one entire semester studying Mark Twain. He was, and still is considered “the first” and most important American writer. And indeed, he’s revered throughout the world! As a sixth grader in the West Virginia mountains, I was totally connected
Read ArticleWill Future Trends Reshape Your Career?
May 21, 2010
Researching and studying future trends has been a master key for my success in the workplace! Of course, Toffler’s prediction of 3–5 career changes seemed, on the surface, to be both absurd and ridiculous in the early 70’s, and seemed to most to be just as odd years later when I started Career Design in
Read ArticleSharpen Your Crap Detector
January 15, 2010
Constantly sharpening your Crap Detector is an absolute necessity for career success today! As you know I remain deeply involved in the career/work world issues which are now reeling from “Future Shock” as predicted by Toffler. The workworld has entered a new age of heightened turbulence, dramatically different from the last 30 years. The demise
Read ArticleBlind Sided By the Chaos of Change
January 6, 2010
Published in the November, 2009, edition of the UTD Coaching News, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Management. In dealing with unrelenting change for myself and my career clients, I remember that I am a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks. “You can no more teach what you don’t know than come
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Free Agent/Entrepreneurial Characteristics Indicator
June 12, 2009
Entrepreneur is the Career Focus of Generation X, Y and Z Becoming an independent, free agent entrepreneur is the focus of millions of Americans, from corporate baby boomers (trying to move from misery towards meaning and money at midlife) to members of Gen X, Y, and Z with their “YoYo – You’re On Your Own” career
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