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...
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How to Write Succinct & Powerful Bullet Points for Your Resume
The hardest part of writing a resume is often coming up with your achievements and condensing them into a bullet point. Watch this (entertaining?) video for a quick, mad-libs-style tutorial...
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...
How to Overcome Resume Writer's Block
week, I am providing a video that goes into more detail about how to overcome resume writer’s block. It’s my first-ever video (yikes). Let me know what you think.
Want a Nonprofit Job? How to Get Your Foot in the Door
Last week I had the pleasure of attending an event, “Piloting Your Nonprofit Career” put on by macslist.org. The panel discussion provided helpful insight about how to get into a...
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...
Don't Quit 5 Minutes Before the Miracle Happens
To be honest, life has thrown me some curve balls lately that have put me smack-dab in the middle of a big pity party. Since life is not all unicorns,...
5 Tips for Finding a Career That Fits
I am lucky. I have the best job in the world. For me. I get to help people. I get to write about whatever I want. I get to teach...
When “Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough
In my experience, we often sell ourselves short. We are our own worst critics. What we think we can get is much different from what’s actually possible for us. We...
What Is the Easiest Tip for a Better Life and Career? Set an Intention
Setting an intention is a real thing. I mean, it actually works.
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...
What’s the SINGLE-BEST Way to Get Your Resume to a Human?
Let me start by saying that I don’t really like networking. At least, not in the typical ways we may think about it. Loud rooms full of strangers smiling too...
Why Work With a Coach When You Can Just Buy a Book?
The reason to work with a coach is because your current thinking is what got you stuck in the first place. To get un-stuck, you need a different perspective and...
Is it Time to Give Your Resume a Spring Cleaning?
We often make the mistake of thinking that a resume crammed with skills and information detailing every task during our tenure at a company is necessary to get us a...
Job Search 101: Sometimes It's Darkest Before the Dawn
One of my clients was having a difficult finding a job. He was doing everything right – networking, reaching out, following up, applying, customizing his resume and cover letter for...
Does Your College Major Really Matter?
A friend and I have long debated the purpose of college. I’ve always believed in the universal value of a liberal arts degree. I prefer the idea of a classical...
Living His Mission: Why One Engineer Chose Art Over HVAC
Below is an interview with Rick Huddle that shows how he evolved from being a project manager for a construction HVAC company into a children’s storyteller.
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?