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How getting comfortable with your feelings leads you to your career purpose
If you want to know your career purpose, you have to get comfortable with feelings. Gasp – I know – feelings! They can have such a negative reputation sometimes, but the truth is that path to finding your career purpose is not a logical one – it’s an emotional one. To...
Three Ways Myers-Briggs Can Help Teams
While nearly any personality assessment can provide value for understanding self and others, I find the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) to be particularly helpful for teams. Here’s why: the core of the theory is how we each prefer to take in information and make...
When You’re Not Sure If You’re Enough
“I am not enough” is easily the most common limiting belief I’ve come across with my coaching clients. While I don’t know how common it is in the overall population, I can tell you it is holding a ton of people back on their paths. I’ve been reading a lot about...
What’s Holding You Back from Fulfilling Work?
I haven't yet come across anyone who has zero desire to enjoy the work they do or find fulfillment in it. The degree to which this is a focus for people certainly varies, particularly across generations, but even those who are hard-wired to "just do the job" still...
What the Myers-Briggs Can Teach Us About Making Better Decisions
The third letter in the Myers-Briggs (MBTI) type preference -- T or F -- is a critical one for teams. This is the preference pair that determines how you prefer to make decisions, and while you can exercise using the opposite preference up to a certain degree, your...
Tips for Enhancing Your Personal Brand
We all have a brand, whether we actively manage it or not - and if we don't actively manage it, others will decide what our brand is for us. If you've ever had that jarring moment happen to you where someone introduced you as something that felt totally different than...
Who Are the Members of Your Tribe?
“In life, there are people who will ultimately add to you, and people who will ultimately take away from you.” -My late father What is a “tribe?” Whether you need to enhance your environment to help you get out of a difficult situation, or you’re looking to get...
Why You Should Go After Your Dream Job
“Mark Twain once told a story about a man who scoured the planet looking for the greatest general who ever lived. When the man was informed that the person he sought had already died and gone to heaven, he made a trip to the Pearly Gates to look for him. Saint Peter...
3 Tips for Successful Negotiations
When asked what word “negotiations” reminds them of, most people say “conflict.” This is why I love teaching win-win negotiations – because it doesn’t have to be that way! There are, of course, times when a competitive strategy is very appropriate, such as when you’re...
What story will you write for your life?
The world is full of sayings like “carpe diem” and “do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.” Ask anyone who's lost someone to an untimely passing can tell you that there’s a lot of truth to these sayings; we only have one life to live, and we don't...
How I Found My Career Purpose, Part II: Tips for narrowing the choices
Last week, I shared an overview of my journey to find my career purpose to help demonstrate the importance of relentlessly following your leads and their associated emotions. This week, I will dive into the second half of this story, which is the more...
How I Found My Career Purpose, Part I: Follow your leads relentlessly
This blog comes to you more out of necessity than intention. I can’t count how many times I’ve been asked a question like “How did you get where you are today?” or “How did you know what you wanted to do in life?” My answer typically involves sharing some or all of...