A Practical Guide For Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team. With David Mead and Peter Docker This book had been recommended to me by a number of people and is all about how you figure out your WHY. In other words, WHY do you do what you do? Not WHAT you do or HOW […]
INTERVIEW: Dr. Spencer “Skip” Niles talking about being your authentic self in career development
Dr. Spencer “Skip” Niles, President-Elect for National Career Development Association was at his summer camp here in Maine recently about 25 minutes from me. So I decided to interview him at his camp on Great Pond about his work on being authentic in career development and weaving hope into our work. I was inspired to […]
Time Management with purpose
Time management with purpose. Be true to yourself and manage your time to reflect it. Recently I participated in a three-week webinar series by Dr. Spencer “Skip” Niles called “Reclaim your soul from work: Making choices that honour your authentic self.” This was very thought-provoking. Skip describes your “soul” as your highest, best, and truest […]
Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life. Gregg Levoy
Maine Career Development Association brought Gregg in for our conference May 2017 and he was our best speaker in years, maybe of all ~12 years we have been chartered. I was fortunate to pick him up at the airport and a few of us went out to dinner with him. Vital Signs is a reflection […]
Finding Our Purpose begins with Being Authentic
Working with clients I typically begin with helping them identify their skills, but as I finish teaching my 5 week online seminar, Finding Purpose, I think it is more about being “authentic” and finding our true selves, which includes identifying our skills, but much more than that. Being authentic is finding the core of who we […]
Ahhhh…retirement. Hey WAIT A MINUTE!!!
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi Berra “Retirement ain’t what it used to be.” Jim Peacock First off, ‘retirement’ is clearly not the correct word. I don’t think we have found the right word yet but they also didn’t know what to call young people in their teens in the early 1900’s […]