Does Your Definition of Success Make You Happy?
How we define success will determine to what degree we are happy, so it’s important to know what really makes you happy. And more than anything, researchers are finding out...
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Facing the People-Pleasing Dilemma
When I do things because I want to look like a hero (and who doesn’t like a hero?!), I often turn into a very unlikeable person—one who is bitter, resentful...
What If You Didn’t Need to Retire?
How much of your life is being dictated by your future retirement? First of all, are you sure retirement will make you happy? Just like in life, some people are...
How to Conduct a Job Search that Doesn't Completely Suck
Anytime I’ve had to look for a job, it seems fraught with gut wrenching anxiety from the first time I edit my resume to the time I finally hear the...
Is It Time You Took Your Own Medicine? (I did and it worked!)
This past Saturday I led a free workshop in which I taught participants to use one of my favorite "make the crazy in the brain stop" tools. The workshop went...
How Karaoke Taught Me a Lesson About Decision-Making, Leadership & Perfectionism
The more I pay attention to what makes good leaders, I see how trapped many of us are by our perfectionism without even realizing it. In fact, what they found is...
Stop Avoiding Your Resume: 5 Reasons People Procrastinate and How to Overcome It
Here are the top 5 reasons I’ve heard from clients that cause people to procrastinate, and why they shouldn’t. People procrastinate is that they are uncomfortable talking about themselves, they...
Why Trusting Your Gut Is More Efficient than Analyzing Data
I don’t know about you, but it has taken me a loooong time to find a career I love. Figuring out what I wanted to be when I grew up...
From Healthcare to Smoothies: A Fresh Look at Retirement and “Security”
Have you ever been on vacation and said to yourself, “I could live here. Why don’t I just move?” And then reality smacks you in the face: you have RESPONSIBILITIES and...
From Corporate Marketing to Personal Training: The Ordinary Tale of an Extraordinary Career Change
My mission is to help people identify and pursue work they love. Many of us dream about breaking free from our office cubicles, but find the “golden handcuffs” — the...
The Two-Pound Ripple Effect: How One Little Itty-Bitty Goal Can Change Your Life
Have you caved in on your 2018 New Year’s resolutions yet? Or, did you not bother to set any?
The Culture of Busyness: If You Stopped Being a Human Doing, Who Would You Be?
When I am acting like a “human doing,” my self-esteem comes from what I DO, rather than who I AM. I equate my self-worth with how much I get done...
Are You Living Your Practice Life or Your Real Life?
I’ve been trying to find the perfect formula for my life; the perfect set of rules to live by so that I never have to be uncomfortable. Life really, really...
Re-Thinking Self-Care
When did “self-care” become synonymous with getting our nails done? For the record, I love having my nails done, but it’s not self-care. My Self doesn’t need pretty nails; my...
Why I Hate This Job Search Advice
“Treat your job search like your job.” This conventional job search advice makes me cringe.
What's behind an upset?
The team with the best thinking wins. Teams that believe they can win, will. Missed shots and sloppy passes won't get in their heads.
What It Really Means to "Think Outside the Box"
Everyone has a box that confines our thinking. It’s defined by our experiences and how we interpret them; what we were taught by the adults who raised us; the society...
Confessions from a Career Coach: Does Goal-Setting Really Matter?
Confession #1: I don’t like setting goals. They scare me.
Giving 80%: Perfection, Procrastination, and the Beauty of Action
Here’s the problem with perfectionists. We try to figure out all the steps, rabbit holes, potential problems before we take a single action. We want to know everything ahead of...
How Doing Arts & Crafts Is Fixing My Business
Here’s the beauty of taking a break: perspective.