A bad career choice can serve up some major emotional consequences. First comes discontent and dissatisfaction. Next comes frustration and overwhelm. Then comes depression and learned helplessness. And finally you get numbness and apathy. This pattern normally plays out over a period of years, although the rate of progression is different for everyone.
It’s sad to see people stuck [...]
There are so many choices today that it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the vast array of career possibilities. Paradoxically the more choices people have, the more they paralyze themselves trying to find the right choice, and the less satisfied they are with their eventual decision.
Too often people approach career decisions with a mindset that [...]
How committed are you to having a career you absolutely love?
Your level of commitment plays a key role in the process of creating a fulfilling career. When people are undercommitted to their careers, they tend to get lousy results. When they get clear about what they want and commit themselves to creating it, however long [...]
If you’re already on a stable or semi-stable career path, this article will help you determine whether your current career is really the right one for you, using a very simple assessment process.
Career fulfillment defined
What does it mean to have a fulfilling career? Here’s how I would define it:
A fulfilling career is an effective outlet for [...]
How to create a fulfilling career has been one of my most requested topics lately. Career development is such a rich and complex subject, however, that I can’t do it justice with a single article. Consequently, I’ve decided to devote a new series of articles to it.
Over the next several days, I’ll be writing specifically on the subject of career, especially [...]
Our feelings are a natural response to our thoughts and intentions. We don’t really choose our feelings directly. Our feelings are a feedback mechanism. They indicate whether we’re moving into alignment with our true desires (positive feelings) or out of alignment (negative feelings).
Simply put… we feel good when we’re moving towards what we want, and we feel bad [...]
John Assaraf is an international best-selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur. You may have seen him as one of the experts in the popular movie The Secret (as well as in The Secret book), talking about how he manifested his dream house. What’s most amazing is that he lived in that house for quite a while before discovering it was the exact same house he originally posted on his [...]
Authenticity has become the modern currency of blogging.
Unlike traditional media sources, most bloggers aren’t beholden to any puppeteers. To some people this is a whole different kind of problem, but it’s also clearly a key strength of the new media. With 175,000 new blogs launching every day, blogging is becoming a popular alternative to the filtered, agenda-driven drivel that passes as news [...]
I recently read a book called Life on Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life by Dr. Brad Swift. This is a truly excellent book on how to discover your life purpose. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to gain clarity with respect to their core reason for being here.
On Amazon.com this book currently has a [...]
Last night a thunderstorm passed through Las Vegas. The thunder was so loud and the lightning so bright that I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to get up for a while. Around 3am I went downstairs and enjoyed a banana and a cup of herbal tea. Then I went outside and sat in the backyard [...]
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