Wake Up. Caffeinate. Hit the door. Already late. Swear at that traffic. It sucks every day. Honk at anyone who gets in your way. Slide into your rat hole and look all around. Your fellow rats, right there to be …
Career Crossroads
Maybe it’s being in my mid-50’s, maybe it’s the changing seasons or maybe it’s because it seems like I have had so many conversations with college students lately. Whatever the reason, I have been thinking a lot about how our …
Do You Still Want What You Thought You Wanted?
We go through life envying the certainty that some people seem to have. They know what they want, they declare it and march forward with a confidence that can make us question ourselves, wishing that we could just get a …
5 Painful Truths About Your Career
No matter what your job or career is, you undoubtedly have good days as well as ones that you wish you could get a do-over on. Join the club. But when the bad starts to outnumber the good, it may …
The Leadership and Management of Y.O.U.
I am not sure our numbering system goes high enough to count the number of blog posts, books and articles that have been written to help you improve your leadership and management skills. There are apparently quite a few of …
Are You Willing To Put On “Rebel Career Pants?”
As you might imagine, as the self-described Chief Career Happiness Officer of the planet, I love Career Rebellion! I have no data to back it up, but it seems like the “Career Happiest” people I know have had either one …
Kaboom!
The best relationships that we build, the ones that propel us forward both personally and professionally, often develop in the most unexpected ways. In January, I was in the audience to hear a speaker. The speaker began his presentation by …
Are You Career Happy? Do You Wanna Be?
And by Career Happy, I mean, “Skipping to the Shower on Mondays” Happy? On a scale of 1 to 10, let’s call that a 10. Or are your Sundays an exercise in the knot in your stomach building, a sense …