Eat Your Career
OCTOBER 18, 2010
Career fulfillment (or, as I like to call it, career nourishment ) can often seem like an elusive beast. Figuring out what it is and how to find it is a difficult process for many. The first thing I tell my coaching clients is that career fulfillment isn’t something you FIND, it’s something you CREATE. And the process, while different for everyone, involves five essential steps: 1.
Lateral Action
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Image by Hugh MacLeod Drink and drugs. A writer’s key to inspiration? Or a demon to your creative success? One of the hottest debates surrounding inspiration is that of the effect of drink and drugs. Some firmly believe they are essential for great creations. Even German philosopher Nietzsche stated that: For art to exist, for […]. The post Don’t Let ‘Inspiration’ Kill Your Creativity appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
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Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 15, 2010
Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Start recognizing patterns in problems Posted to: Knowing yourself October 15th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I think each person struggles with one, singular thing. I learned this when I was a graduate student in English.
Eat Your Career
OCTOBER 5, 2010
I spend a lot of time sharing information on how to love your career. I talk about making thoughtful decisions , establishing a path and actively managing your goals. But, equally important, is avoiding those roads that will lead to inevitable career unhappiness. Sometimes, they’re hard to spot. But I’ve found five that are clear, unmistakable danger zones.
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Eat Your Career
OCTOBER 11, 2010
I’m a compulsive over-analyzer. Rarely am I able to just “let things go” when I should. Instead, I dwell. I pick apart. I dissect until whatever it is no longer resembles itself. I think way too much. The human brain has a remarkable ability to find order in chaos. I blame my need to over-analyze on this biological fact. I think, ultimately, I’m searching for some sort of reason in an unreasonable world.
Eat Your Career
OCTOBER 12, 2010
A good friend of mine once told me that every soul is for sale. He said it’s just the way the world works, that we do what we can to stay whole but sooner or later, we let pieces of ourselves go in exchange for what we need. It’s a matter of survival, he said. His is a cynical view of the world but, after years of reflection, I think he’s right. To get ahead, we all have to make sacrifices.
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Lateral Action
OCTOBER 18, 2010
Image by losmininos In 2005 I began puzzling over the success of some elite professionals I was fortunate enough to meet. They did not match any of my categories and yet they were more successful than anybody else in their field. I solved the riddle two years later after reading Harriet Rubin’s book, Soloing. Rubin […]. The post The Four Stages of Freelance Success appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
Lateral Action
OCTOBER 15, 2010
Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. These are the words that swam into my mind when I learned about the theme of this year’s Blog Action Day: Water. They come from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s great poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, at the point where the Mariner and his shipmates have lost […]. The post Everybody’s Drink Problem appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
Lateral Action
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Mind maps are a powerful tool to get yourself unstuck, focused and organized to do your best creative work. Tony Buzan is the person best known for coining the term mind map and helping to educate the world at large about the concept. Mind maps are a form of visual mapping, where you use a […]. The post Four Ways Mind Maps Make You More Creative appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
Lateral Action
OCTOBER 4, 2010
As you read these words, your brain is being changed. Every day, as you surf the internet, clicking on hyperlinks, opening new tabs and windows, flicking between e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and whatever it was you were reading just now, your patterns of thought are changing. And neuroscientists have amassed solid evidence that when we change […].
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Lateral Action
OCTOBER 20, 2010
“If you only read one book about getting creative work done,” I tell my coaching clients, “make it The War of Art“ Regular Lateral Action readers will know I’m a huge fan of Steven Pressfield’s approach to overcoming Resistance and getting on with your biggest creative challenges, as described in the text and audio interviews […].
Eat Your Career
OCTOBER 12, 2010
A few weeks ago, I hosted a free teleseminar with my good friend Sydni Craig-Hart (of Executive Assistant to Virtual Assistant ) and she was kind enough to record it. For your listening pleasure, I’ve loaded it in here. Please take some time out of your busy day to sit back, relax and learn all about how to manage stress and emotions in the workplace.
Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog The science of love at first sight Posted to: Interviewing | Networking October 4th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook This is what the farm looks like when you drive up to it. For a while, I thought that the farm is really what I fell in love with.
Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 6, 2010
Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Brazen Careerist opens an office in DC Posted to: Entrepreneurship October 6th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Brazen Careerist is opening offices in Washington, DC. Our CEO lives in DC, so Ryan Healy is moving there – along with Photis , the developer (who I convinced to move from Philadelpia to Madison by telling him that his life would suck and
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Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 3, 2010
Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog BNET Column: Why hunting for a great job hurts your career Posted to: Job Hunt October 3rd, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook One of the hardest things about being unemployed is worrying that you will not end up in a good job.
Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 9, 2010
Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Snapshot of the new workplace: Karen Owen's PowerPoint Posted to: Women October 9th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook For those of you who missed it, Karen Owen, a student at Duke University, sent a summary of her sex life to some friends, via email.
Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 18, 2010
Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog BNET Column: Perfectionism is a disease. Here's how to beat it. Posted to: Self-management | Time management October 19th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It’s amazing that people admit to being perfectionists.
Penelope Trunk
OCTOBER 12, 2010
Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Generation Y in Politics: Krystal Ball's candidacy Posted to: Diversity | Women October 12th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I have been waking up at 4am to work. And I like it. Not only have I been writing more regularly, but also, as soon as I became committed to waking up at 4am, I became committed to going to bed at 8:30pm.
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