My guests today are….well me, Jim Peacock :) and Sabrina Woods, Holistic Career / Life Coach and we will explore mindfulness and career practitioners embracing it in their practice. My good friend Bob McIntosh interviews me and Sabrina on Using Mindfulness to Impact our Wellbeing & That of Our Clients. Bob McIntosh, SCPRW is a career trainer and coach and LinkedIn authority and asked if he could interview us as he wanted to learn more about mindfulness. WHAT WE WILL EXPLORE … [Read more...]
My Career Inspiration for 2019
My career inspiration for 2019 starts by choosing three words to guide me throughout the year. By choosing 3 words to guide and inspire me, rather than creating specific goals, I get career inspiration in a variety of ways, both personally and professionally. When I think about "career" it is in its broadest definition as defined by Donald Super. A career is defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime. It concerns … [Read more...]
INTERVIEW: Taking Retreats to Slow Down
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...]