So… Can you create luck? In Gregg Levoy’s book Callings, he devotes a chapter to synchronicity, another way to create luck in your search for your new career path. Synchronicity is a coincidence…a meaningful coincidence that can inform us, primarily through intuition. Chemist Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” Yes, you can create […]
From Chaos to Creativity and Careers. William H. Stone
Chaos. Serendipity. Happenstance. Luck. This IS how people find work throughout their career development. I am a huge fan of the Happenstance Learning Theory and my personal philosophy is what I call “intentional serendipity”. You need to be “intentional” and take action and the open t opportunities that you create. Chaos theory has many crossovers. I […]
Four Things You Can Do To Keep Your Clients Out of Their “Panic Zone”
“Get out of your comfort zone.” We’ve all heard this but some people think that there is only one zone beyond “comfort” and they call it “panic” or “freakout”. Bryan Murphy who recently took a seminar from me explains to his students that there are actually three zones to think about. Comfort zone, where no […]
Fail Fast, Fail Often. Babineaux & Krumboltz
Fail Fast, Fail Often. How Losing Can Help You WIN. By Ryan Babineaux, Ph.D., and John Krumboltz, Ph.D. I saw John Krumboltz speak at Maine Career Development in June (2015) and he and a colleague of his had just come out with this book. As a believer in “all things serendipitous” and that failing is […]
Undecided? Or open to opportunities? 5 things you can do to be “open to opportunities.”
Here are some points I try to keep in mind when working with undecided individuals. Are you really “undecided” about your career choices or are you “open to opportunities?” If you are not sure what you want to do, the first step is to change your mindset. I truly believe most people are NOT undecided. […]
Why we all need to “fail forward”.
Failing forward is an entrepreneurial philosophy embracing and learning from failure. Thomas Edison, Wayne Gretzky, Albert Einstein, and Jim Peacock have all had many great failures. The key is to “fail forward”…. learn from your mistakes and don’t be afraid to try something new again. In a recent Inc. magazine, they wrote about a “Failure Church” […]