Where in the World is Waldo (Your Career)? Part 1 of 3

Have you ever had your best-laid career plans derailed? Or wondered why you are fantasizing about a career change? Or found yourself dealing with the consequences of the poor judgment of your employer? If so, you glimpsed a portion of The Cycle of Career Change. The Cycle is a...

Job Interview Got You Unnerved? A Little Emotional Clarity Can Help

To cross the threshold from unemployed to working, you need to travel through Interviewland. It can be a wild, disorienting place without direction markers. Some people go there and are never heard from again - at least that's what it can feel like that when you are there.

The ONE Question You Need to Ask Yourself to Avoid Being a Zombie

This question can help you avoid wasting years of your precious life that you can never get back. If you feel stuck in your life or job and want to make a change but are fearful of making a mistake, then this post is for you. This ONE question might help you clarify what is truly important and what you are willing to risk for the chance of a life worth living.

Exit Strategy: Dealing with Unethical Requests from Your Boss

This circumstance is one of the most stressful ones you can experience at work. Maybe you have been lucky during your career to have had great leaders. They display themselves in situations such as treating

How to Be a Star at Work with this One Proven Strategy

Leave the whine country. I have seen this lesson work wonders on the first day I learned it. It is so simple and obvious as many profound ideas are. The bad news is that people who are unaware of this strategy will drive you crazy.

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying and What We Can Learn from Them

Minimize regrets at the end of your life. In this post, I'm going to take on a weighty subject that most people don't want to face and that is the fact of our mortality.

7 Startling Reasons Why You're Unhappy and What You Can Do About It

Awareness is the Key. In this post, we'll explore seven reasons why so many people are unhappy and unfulfilled in today's world. Imagine you are driving your car and it just isn't working right. The wheel is pulling to the left, the engine is making a strange sound, and there's some power lacking.

Don't Like Your Life Story? Change it!

You were born innately healthy…then what happened? You developed early in life what Transactional Analysist Claude Steiner calls your "life script". The content of your life script comes from the negative and positive messages you received from the people close to you. To survive, you arrived at an early decision.

What Would You Do for Free?

How to align your true self with what you love to do by knowing your basic nature and your signature traits. In this post we're going to unpack what It means to live in alignment with who you are and what you love to do. We'll describe what signature traits are and what your basic nature means.

Save Half a Million Dollars by Using This Strategy to Lead You to Fulfilling Work

Knowing your motives and your basic nature are the keys to finding fulfilling work. In this post, we're going to explore the correlation between a person's motives and their basic nature and how that can be a huge insight into finding work you love and avoiding time wasted and incurring the chains of student debt.

Your Current and Your Unlived Life

You can never get back the time and the opportunities you've wasted playing it safe listening to resistance.

The Jedi is Wrong - May the Force NOT Be with You

Force is draining your motivation and you don't even know it. The seemingly current worldview is that the way to make things happen is by force. Force comes in many forms. Manipulation by social media, psychological force, economic force, physical force, unethical marketing force and so on.

Purpose: The Foundation of Motivation (Part Four)

Technically speaking, Purpose is not considered a Motive per se. We would argue that It's a sustained life of motivation and have included it as a foundation of motivation. One of the most potent examples of Purpose is Viktor Frankl's horrific experiences in four Nazi Concentration camps. His purpose was what kept him motivated.

Mastery: The Foundation of Motivation (Part Two)

Discover how mastery is a critical part of motivation. In this post we'll cover how and why Mastery (sometimes called Competence) is an essential element in Motivation. We'll describe the 5 keys on the path to Mastery and you'll understand how that builds our sense of Autonomy.

Autonomy: The Foundation of Motivation (Part One)

Discover the critical parts you need to know to determine what will motivate you. The foundation of motivation begins with Autonomy. Let's face it; nobody does anything without motivation. Scientists, psychologists, and philosophers have been trying to answer this question for millennia: “How can I figure out what motivates me?”

Motivation: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Every action you take is dependent on motivation. Everyone is trying to figure out how to be successful. The foundational element of being successful is finding out what motivates you.

The Importance of Learning New Career Skills for Building a Career You Love

Being able to learn new skills quickly has always been useful. But, increasingly, it has become a necessity. In this essay, I'd like to outline some of the evidence that the economy is shifting in ways that are going to make being able to teach yourself hard skills an imperative. I'd like to argue why developing a skills-based perspective towards your career is the key to fulfillment and satisfaction. Finally, I'd like to tell you how you can develop the ability to learn hard things faster.

How to Create a Life of Purpose

Learn to identify purpose by identifying a skill to master. Few of us have ever been taught how to create a life of purpose and therefore end up living a life by default. Living a life on purpose seems like it just magically happens to exceptional people like Viktor Frankl, Gandhi, Steve Jobs or the Beatles.

Does Your Personality Fit Your Career?

What to do if you find you personality and your job are out of alignment

Oh, Life! A Simple Tool for Chronicling Life Transitions

If you’re like me, you have probably started to keep a journal on at least several occasions, thinking that it would be nice to have a record of what you were doing

Finding Your Life Purpose (Video)

Best selling author Richard Leider talks about how to find your life purpose

The Three R's of Midlife Reinvention

Vivian Diller, a psychologist and blogger for Huffington Post, offers advice for personal reinvention in midlife

How To Make Work Life Balance Work

An inspiring video by Nigel Marsh on his efforts to manage his work life balance

What is Success?

One Man's Definition of Happiness

The founder of the Center for Well-Being offers a prescription for individual happiness, proposes an index of national well-being.

12 Steps to Work Sanity -- And Improved Life Balance

We are all encouraged to find work about which we are passionate.  This is the ideal:  to work at something you “love” and get paid, too!

Are You Happy?

A Simple Roadmap To Happiness

3 Questions That Could Change Your Life

At a certain age, many of us start to grapple with some tough questions about our future, and we start to focus more attention on the issue of what is truly important to us.

Ten Steps to Personal Reinvention

Career coach and psychologist Dr. Nancy Irwin offers tips for motivation, mission and goal-setting.

What’s It Like Going Back to School After 20 Years?

It’s been three weeks since I started school and my master’s in fine art education. My homework skills are rusty, but I'm really appreciating my teacher.

Three Questions That Could Change Your Life

With all the turmoil in the economy, many of us grappling with some very tough questions about our near-term and long-term future. This situation has reminded me of a book by Lee Eisenberg that I read a few years back called “The Number,” in which he focused on the whole notion of what it means to be financially independent.

Welcome To What's Next

Why We’re Here. No doubt about it -- we live in challenging times. The economy is in turmoil... unemployment is hitting levels not seen in decades... and eighty million baby boomers are moving rapidly toward a stage of life that used to be called ‘retirement.’

The PI Wears Prada: One Woman's Midlife Career Change

When her job in real estate soured and her kids got older, Jeanene Weiner followed a dream and started her own detective agency.

Into the Deep: From Real Estate Agent to Wet-Suit Designer

Debbie Davis was bored in her real estate job. Then she fell madly in love—with the ocean. At 55, she has an Internet business selling women-friendly wet suits, and a whole new view of life.

The Wigmaker

When this Wall Street executive beat cancer, she ditched her six-figure salary to start a company that makes wigs and helps women like herself.