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 [...]
There many strategies you can use to select and plan a career path, but perhaps the two most basic patterns are bottom-up and top-down.
Bottom-up career planning
Bottom-up career planning means figuring out how you can best take advantage of the career building blocks you already possess. It’s a low-level, objective method of planning.
Perhaps the simplest form of [...]
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 [...]
Erin recently decided to start offering consulting services on her web site. You can visit her consulting page for details and topics, or read her recent blog post about it.
Technically she’s been doing consulting for a while. Some people would book a reading with her and then use their reading time to ask her questions [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What if you hate your life? Or maybe you don’t quite hate it, but you’re just not happy with your current situation? Perhaps you’re depressed, bored, or apathetic. Or maybe you just don’t see the point in living at all.
If you don’t see the point in living, then you’re missing the point of life entirely. [...]
Several people have asked me about the origins of the polarity concept I began exploring last year. Where did it come from? How does it relate to personal growth?
These ideas actually stemmed from some journal entries I wrote in 2002. At the time I was asking myself questions like these: What is the deepest source of ongoing motivation, such that if we tapped [...]
As I see it, your best long-term outlet for making a meaningful contribution to the world is your career. Yes, you can contribute by donating money and volunteering on the side, but that’s not as efficient as being able to give through the work you do each day. Most of the time when I see people overly concerned [...]
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