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January 7, 2019 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: 3 Words, 3 words to guide me, career inspiration, gratitude, purposeful, reflection

November 20, 2018 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: focus, meditation, mindfulness, reflection, retreat, slowing down, tech free, tech free retreat

November 12, 2018 by Jim Peacock 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: meditation, mindfulness, reflection, retreat, tech free, tech free retreat, turn off technology

June 12, 2017 by Jim Peacock 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: focus, less is best, mindfulness, reflection, slowing down

May 8, 2017 by Jim Peacock Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Career Tagged With: focus, instincts, intentional serendipity, journal, journaling, reflection, slowing down, trusting your hunches, trusting your instincts

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