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 you do it, but the real WHY you do it. The authors show how to do this work for individuals and also for teams or companies. There is an extensive facilitator section if your company or team were to work with an outside … [Read more...]
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 interview Skip after attending his series of three webinars called, Reclaim your soul: Making choices that honor your authentic self. Watch this interview where we … [Read more...]
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 self. Your authentic self. He presented how by getting in touch with your “soul” you pay more attention to intuition, imagination, relationships, … [Read more...]
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 of much of his current thinking. This is deep. Very thoughtful. Even historical. And at times a reflection of Gregg’s own pursuit of passion in life. The biggest difference in this book from Callings is that … [Read more...]
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 are and doesn’t change as we get older; it should only get clearer. Fairly recently, within the past 5 years, my dad told me that he knew I’d be great at … [Read more...]