How many things are on your "to do" list today? How many times/day do you check your email and social media accounts? Get control over your day again by choosing 3 things to do each day that "must get done" and then look at your list of 25 things. Check your email 3 times/day...bunch them up so you are not chasing emails all the time. And...consider taking a day, or a half day, retreat to slow down and rediscover your creativity. Listen to this Peak-Careers Interview … [Read more...]
Tech Free Retreat
Tech Free Retreat and The Benefits of Turning Off the Tsunami of Information What I love about taking my tech free retreat day each month is the ‘cognitive dissonance” it causes me. An out of my comfort zone kind of ‘cognitive dissonance’. I leave the house as close to 8:00 a.m. as possible and drive to a friend’s office who so graciously lets me use it for my tech-free retreat day. And then it hits me - WHAM! It’s different. Feels different. Looks different, smells different. It will be a … [Read more...]
3 Reasons to Practice Mindfulness at Work
In our ever-busy world that we live in, it is important that we find ways to slow ourselves down as a way to better serve ourselves and clients. Our ability to manage the tsunami of information coming into us daily and hourly is inversely linked to the quality of services we provide. If we are constantly chasing emails, tweets, and other social media messages, we are not taking the time to slow down and “think”. Yes, just “think” instead of reacting. “Mindfulness is deliberately paying full … [Read more...]
Journaling: Taking ‘Fuzzy Thinking’ to Concrete Ideas in Career Development
As a career coach/counselor, do you ask your clients to journal? I do occasionally because I believe the process of taking ideas out of their heads and putting them on paper can be a very powerful activity. “A goal not written is only a wish.” I believe this is true in the career development process...write it down and think it through. Personally I try to journal every day, first thing in the morning. I choose to free-style it and just write about what is important to me that day. It … [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...]