“Your entire life is what you have imagined it to be. Everything you have or […]
Let Go, Terminated, Downsized or Fired? It’s Time For A Comeback
The empty office. It was once yours. What happened? Or better yet, what’s next? No […]
Avoid Unhealthy Procrastination
We all procrastinate from time to time—the annual check up, hitting the gym, the trip […]
Deal With It
I recently read an article with the same title: “Deal With It.” It shared the […]
Be Nice!
There are a lot of cynics out there who might think this is the worst […]
Practice Mental Toughness
This is one of the hardest things to do on a consistent basis. Mental toughness […]
Leave Your Network Wanting More
It’s an unfortunate fact that we remember negative events more than positive ones. There is […]
Avoid Career Burnout
Some people are super powered workaholics. Others are career engaged. While others are barley surviving. […]
Build Your Portfolio Career
What a great world we live in when you can have a full-time career and […]
Know That I’m Here No Matter What
Recently I had a client reach out to me after a bit of a gap […]
Purge Discontent, Frustration and Boredom From Your Career
There may come a time when you feel bored in your life and career. You […]
Stop Living In The Blame Basement
If you keep telling yourself and everyone else that you’re a victim, then you’ll be […]
Employ Some Purely Positive Intentions
“Your entire life is what you have imagined it to be. Everything you have or […]
Pout When You Feel Like It. Then Move On, Man!
There’s something cathartic about a pout once in a while. But when it rolls over […]
Snap Out Of It!
If you’ve ever seen the movie Moonstruck, then you know the impact of the exchange […]
Employ Email Etiquette: Get it Read and Get Results!
Crafting an email that gets results takes practice and skill. Yes, it’s not about just […]
I’ve Got All The Answers
Yup. That’s why you hired me to be your coach, right? Uh, spoiler alert… I […]
Why Chicago is Great For Career Perspective
I loved living in Chicago. It’s a great city. I have many clients in Chicago […]
Career Advantages to Being a Good Listener
Listening is all about making a conscious effort to be wholly present when someone is […]
Three Tips to Help Heal The Toxic Employee
Any employee with whom you have an ongoing challenge may be seen as a toxic […]
Can You Afford NOT To Have a Coach?
I have two coaches and my life and business are far better because of it. […]
March Madness – An NBA Career?
Professional basketball players know their scoring odds increase when they focus. In fact, “the most […]
Rise Above If You Value Your Career
There are more times than naught when we are tempted to react to a situation. […]
Career Complaint to Career Compliment
The last thing you probably want to do when you’re frustrated with someone is to […]
Live Deeply and Grow Your Career
“By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we […]
Career Confidence
I’m always flattered and honored when a client tells me that I’ve given them the […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: 30-Minute Sprints
I’ve been working hard to be more mindful. One of my big intentions is to […]
Career Power Fueled By Nature
It’s a fact that when people take frequent breaks from work to spend time outdoors […]
Career Connectivity
Connectivity is at the root of success—connecting with your circumstances, your work, your relationships and […]
Three Ways To Make Your Career Soar
While hard work is always at the base of any big change, career success requires […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: The Career Clutch: Are You With Me or Against Me?
When did everything become such a competition? How is it that we often find ourselves […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: It’s No Accident
I’m writing this with an icepack on my busted knee. Yup, that’s me. Fresh from […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Aware of Mindfulness
I can’t believe how many mindfulness practices are finding their way into everything we humans […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Visualization and Your Career
There is great power in visualization. Think about it. If you can’t imagine what your […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: I Surrender!
Mindfulness requires detachment and surrendering to the moment. So, I surrender. I try hard to […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Looking for Answers?
If you’re stuck and can’t find an answer, consider your emotions. If you’re in a […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Career Enthusiasm
Do you have enthusiasm for your career? Does it excite you? Do you love your […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Career Subsidization
Sometimes we subsidize others’ careers. We give them just what they need to keep going […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Are You A Career Shark?
I have a client who lives in New York City. He works in the journalism […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: One Day At A Time
Within this expression lies a goldmine. I would even add “One Step at a Time” […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Give Me a Break. A Career Break That Is…
Have you ever looked up into the sky and asked, “When will I get a […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Career Karma
Have you been told lately that you embody the best qualities of a human being? […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: The Root of Workplace Conflict
Internal fighting, meaningless meetings, gossip and turf wars are just a few of the roots […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Mood Music
Okay, we all know how great music makes us feel. When we leave work and […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Pull Back the Career Lens
When you pull back the lens and look at something from a distance, you gain […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Reducing Work Pain
I’m not a doctor, nor will I pretend to be one for this blog. But, […]
Career Happiness isn’t a Pipe Dream
Okay, promising career happiness is a bold move on my part. For one reason, I […]
Career Advancement Requires Saying “No”
For those who are seriously interested in advancing their careers, there is one required skill […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Redirect Your Wandering Mind (and Career)
I often hear people lament about not having a career plan. As your goal-focused coach, […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: The Past Is In The Past
Learning mindfulness practices helps you train your brain to focus on the present. When you […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Three Mindful Ways to Start Your Day
Before you jump out of bed and check your phone, take a few mindful minutes […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Steal Away And Advance Your Career
Did Robert Frost practice mindfulness? I wonder. His internal musings below are magical comparisons to […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Is Tomorrow Costing You Today?
Do you ever worry about tomorrow? Is there something that you must do that scares […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: How Mindfulness Can Advance Your Career
You know by now how much a mindfulness practice helps increase attention. After all, it’s […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Provide Peace For Another
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. – Dalai Lama One way […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Reduce Career Stress
A recent mindfulness exercise that I participated in challenged me to translate stress reduction techniques […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Is It Worth It?
As I grow older I am asking myself this question more often: Is it worth […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Do You Keep Commitments?
I take issue with folks who don’t keep commitments. I really have a problem with […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Concentration and Your Career
Have you ever had a conversation with someone and you knew they just weren’t listening? […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Build Your Leadership Muscles
When you exercise, you build muscles. It’s not always easy, lifting weights and doing cardio […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Exploring Restlessness In Your Career
We all feel restless on occasion. This also occurs in our careers. As someone who […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: The Mindful Resume
You’re probably thinking that I’ve gone too far this time, connecting the practice of mindfulness […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Building Trust For Career Advancement
Living a mindful life and building a mindful career requires you to build trust. First, […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Take Your Work Outside
While the weather permits, take your work outside. I had a meeting last week and […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: 15-Minute Mindfulness (For Your Career)
What would it be like to focus on a project for 15 minutes without interruption? […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Invest In Yourself
Hard Truth: Personal investment is not a guilty pleasure. Investing in oneself should never be […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Can You Hear Me Now?
There’s a lot to say about follow up. I could go on and on about […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Avoiding Analysis Paralysis
Too much too soon? Too many choices? Too scattered and distracted? We all have experienced […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Shifts at Work
Shifts at work reflect shifts in time. It’s no coincidence that when you feel change […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Front and Center
All too often we forget about our days. They fly by and blur together as […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Afternoon Success
By the time the afternoon rolls around, many of us experience an energy slump. While […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Be Mindful of Your Surroundings
I used to work for a company that used a “Blue Sky Room” to invoke […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Listen
Listening is a gift. It’s a gift when we are able to use this sense […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Blue Skies
What color is your sky? Blue or gray? Where do you dwell? Night or day? […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: A Bird’s Song
Do we go through each day ignoring the bird’s song? Are we so focused on […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Awaken to the Experience
A client recently discussed her concerns about her lack of a mentor. She felt that […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Feelings
Mindfulness is the art of paying attention. Feelings, thoughts, experiences and physical reactions are all […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Love After Love
Love After Love by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Three Ways To Embrace Unselfconsciousness
Have you ever sang in the shower or danced around your house? Sure you have. […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Desktop Zen Garden?
They’re not just for decoration. Nor are they designed to give the impression that you’ve […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Practice
“Only through practice do you attain the fruits of the journey.” This is a powerful […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Life
Life by Henry Van Dyke Let me but live my life from year to year, With […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Build a Better Body (And Career!)
“Yup. She’s out there again.” I can hear you saying it now. Kim’s really stretching […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Mindful or Mind “Full”
I think we all suffer from mind “full”-ness. We are expected to remember way too […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Still Water
Still Water by W.B. Yeats We can make our minds so like still water that […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: The Hardship of Accounting
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Mindful To-Do Lists
They’re awesome. I love my to-do lists. Especially the feeling of crossing each item off […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Hocus Pocus—Problem Solved
We don’t have magic wands. We are human. Despite the fact that we get into […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Silence Negative Self-Talk
Being mindful means being at peace and aware. This includes with oneself. When we’re aware […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Zero to Sixty
Why are we so unhappy? That’s a pretty bold question when, for the most part, […]
What’s Your Stress Trigger?
Did you know that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is much more than a tool […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Curse or Gift?
Building on my blog Social Media Fast, I’d like to add a few other insights. […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Energy Shift
Sometimes an “energy shift” is just what’s required to get over obstacles and on to […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Mindful Leadership
I routinely present a program that I call Mindful Leadership. While this explores the many […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Prada over Profession
This may seem like a strange commentary on mindfulness, but hear me out. Recently, I […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Stuck in a Rut?
Many professionals reach out to a career coach when they feel stuck in a rut. […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Good Habits
They say it takes 21 days to solidify a new habit. For some it may […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Brain Detox
Did you know that being silent helps detox your brain? During meditation, or periods of […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Break Through Self-Doubt
How have your “self-deprecating thoughts” hurt your career? We all have an inner critic but […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Are You Settling?
We can be anything we want. We can do anything we want. We can master […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Space to Learn
Many top organizations are creating space and time to learn for their employees. They see […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Learning to Forgive
I talk a lot about this subject because it’s very personal to me. It’s also […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Treat Others Right
“Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.” When we treat others right, they […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: I’m Going to Get You, My Pretty!
You probably recall this statement from the Wicked Witch of the West. Unlike Dorothy, I’ve […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Fresh Air Therapy
Did you know that a burst of fresh air does wonders for your mind? Just […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: The Optimistic Creed
Promise Yourself: To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Integrity
Integrity has a positive and uplifting connotation. It’s not a weapon to be wielded against […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Positive Forward Thinking
Why do we look back? Maybe to remember what it felt like to be younger, […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Sunshine on My Shoulders
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me smile. – John Denver There is just something about […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Simplicity a Cure for Materialism
I’m hardly one to talk. I’ve amassed more than I need to survive, but I […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Late Nights at the Office
It’s hard to say “stop” when the work doesn’t. Thankfully, or maybe not so thankfully, […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Leadership Transparency
Many leaders look at being transparent as an act of weakness. Still others see great […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Letting Go of a Team Member
When you are forced to dismiss a team member, it’s never easy. Some experience a […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Radiate Optimism
Sometimes people think optimism is reserved for those who aren’t focused or serious. On the […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Opportunities Abound
“Fine-Ances” We have entered an age Of financial downtrend But this is not the […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Vision and Opposition
When you follow your vision, you’ll encounter opposition. This is often a sign that success […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Setbacks Are Welcome
You might not think about hanging up this shingle at your workplace: “Setbacks Are Welcome.” […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: The Mind of the Accomplished
I’m always interested in neurology and how the brain works to motivate us and help […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: 5 Ways to Stay Positive
If you see the benefits of positivity, as they are enumerable, then here are a […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Is Happiness Overused?
My business is built on helping people Be Career Happy! The thing is we are […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Goodies Galore
“Giving is mindfulness in practice for both the recipient and the giver.” I love creating […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Nirvana
As we move through the practice of mindfulness we move closer to nirvana—the state of […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Good Failure
Successful people look for the good in every failure. That’s right and that’s how we […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Nourish Your Brain
Quieting all the mind chatter can actually nourish our brains. This mindfulness knowledge is one […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Fear of Failure
The single greatest obstacle to success and happiness is fear of failure. When we are […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Are You Self-Employed?
“The biggest mistake we can ever make is to believe that we’re not self-employed.” According […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Birthday Cakes and Happiness at Work
If you’re following my blog and articles in Forbes then you know that I write […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Sing As Loud As You Can!
You may not be Adele or Pharrell, but I bet you’re awesome. In fact, I […]
Interested In a Flexible Work Week?
Ahh, the flexible work arrangement. We want it but not all of us get it. […]
Want a Shorter Work Week?
If you’re a leader, team member, manager, entrepreneur or business owner, here are some startling […]
Turning Within
What treasures lie within Our fleshy vessel Bumping and winding Thru waves of past, present, […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: What is Your Career Purpose?
According to the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the biggest predictor of health and […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Where Will You Be In Five Years?
If you’re learning anything about mindfulness, you know the focus is on the moment—not five […]
The Year of a Mindful Career: Grow Up
This isn’t a lecture. It’s a challenge. I’ve asked myself how I’ve needed to grow […]
Career Coach Tips To Control Your Inner Critic
Every time Mary schedules a team meeting, a critical voice inside of her announces, “You’re […]
Career Coaching for Career Happiness
If you’re wondering whether or not you are in the right career, you might also […]
Gossip: The Career Saboteur
I’m frequently asked to conduct training on how to repair and move past gossip-rooted conflict […]
Good Reads for Your Career
The next time you visit the professional development section of your local bookstore, you might […]
What is Career Happiness?
Anything and everything that makes you happy and engaged while at work is what is […]
My New Job is a Mistake!
Before our career journey ends, we’ll all have made a mistake or two. This may include […]
Career Happiness: Making Your Work Meaningful
A recent journal article in the APA’s Monitor on Psychology discussed the importance of making your work […]
Saying “No” to Worry? Career Coaching Can Help
Saying “no” to worry is not easy. A Sage once observed that worry is almost […]
Visualize Your Success
Many companies use vision statements as a way of projecting success. Take Tom Watson, the […]
Don’t Tread On Me
I recently finished a best-selling business book which I found insightful and peppered with thought-provoking […]
A Philadelphia Story
The comparison struck me. “What do you think?” I asked my client. “I love it.” […]