Career Change

Have you ever noticed that authors of “how-to” best-sellers created their own rituals? They design their own form of visualization, affirmation, or just walking outdoors. Creating a ritual adds energy and purpose to your goals far more powerfully than following someone else’s. What are the ingredients of a ritual? 1. Up to three clear goals. […]

Consultants and coaches constantly urge us to, “Focus! Stay with one project at a time. Don’t get distracted.” Usually that’s good advice. But during a career change,  it makes sense to run on two tracks. And sometimes you have no choice. (1) Exploring a new career or business? During the exploration phase of career change, […]

Research shows that talking to strangers — not people in your comfort zone — is the single most powerful key to a creative career and business move. Yet many people resist. Sometimes they don’t understand the concept of networking. At other times, they set impossible goals. Here are some guidelines for network for your second […]

When your friend decides to start a business by Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D. Etiquette books, as far as I know, will tell you how to behave when your friend gets married, buried, graduated, or hospitalized. But let’s say your friend, who always seemed sensible and predictable, tells you she’s quitting her job. Sure, it’s a good […]

Clockwatchers is about living your life on someone else’s time. Four temporary office workers meet in a featureless building. We meet the heroine, Iris, as she spends much of her first day sitting in a chair where she was told to “wait till someone comes for you.” The building, with its square corners and cubicles, […]