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July 29, 2015 by Jim Peacock 3 Comments

Four Things You Can Do To Keep Your Clients Out of Their “Panic Zone”

“Get out of your comfort zone.” We’ve all heard this but some people think that there is only one zone beyond “comfort” and they call it “panic” or “freakout”.  Bryan Murphy who recently took a seminar from me explains to his students that there are actually three zones to think about. Comfort zone, where no learning takes place. People are complacent here and often go through the motions that they are doing something. Freakout or panic zone, again, where no learning takes place. When you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: comfort zone, embrace serendipity, failure, fear of failure, getting out of your comfort zone, panic zone, serendipity, stretch zone

June 1, 2015 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

No Regrets. Only Lessons to be Learned.

Regrets are wasted energy. I had a person in one of my online seminars post that she was an oncology nurse early on in her career and was often the last person people spoke to before dying. Many of them shared their regrets with her about: Not taking risks in their lives Not doing jobs they wanted to do Not doing the education they wanted Long held grudges She had to leave nursing because this was such a depressing part of the job. But what she learned was to live a life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: career, chance events, embrace serendipity, failure, finding meaning, learn from failure, no regrets, purpose in life, regrets

December 21, 2013 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

Why we all need to “fail forward”.

Failing forward is an entrepreneurial philosophy embracing and learning from failure.  Thomas Edison, Wayne Gretzky, Albert Einstein, and Jim Peacock have all had many great failures.  The key is to "fail forward".... learn from your mistakes and don't be afraid to try something new again. In a recent Inc. magazine, they wrote about a "Failure Church" where one company encouraged its employees to proclaim their failures out loud. Some failures were small, some big, and after the person … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: advising, career, career advising, career coaching, fail forward, failure, happenstance, intentional serendipity, serendipity

January 2, 2013 by Jim Peacock 6 Comments

Failure Makes Me Happy

Failure #1.   My very creative son who has been drawing since he could hold a crayon. And at 4 years old on an Etch-A-Sketch created a multi-sail pirate ship that was jaw dropping, and in college majored in Advertising, and who took every new career assessment I wanted to try out and always came up “creative”, has taken a job as an analyst working with medical electronic records.  Hardly creative.  I blew that one!  Out of the 1000 occupational titles this would have been 985 just above … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: failure, failures, happenstance, learning from failure, unexpected opportunities

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