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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Start Taking Mini Actions

My career coaching and mentoring work is guided by what I wrote about in just five rules. But isn’t it ironic that Rule #1, “Take Action”, is the one which often causes people to hesitate! Maybe because they’ve been conditioned over many years by the advice of such popular wisdom as:

Still Think You Can Manage Time?

The time management material starts about 2 minutes into this 7 minute video. (This is an excerpt of module 6 – from the IT Career Engineer Special Report. Now available on CD (This post updated Oct 2011). But it’s very relevant to anyone making choices over how they spend their time each day. The fundamentals [...]

Introducing the Provider of Fear

Two quotes from the end of this marvelous ESPN Tough Guy video: “I’m a provider of fear for those who want it.” “If you’re mentally tough, you can stand up against the world.” So why do apparently sane people do crazy stuff like that – and in the bleak mid-winter, for crying out loud? For [...]

You Can’t Manage Time

Time management is such an irresistible topic for personal development authors and career change coaches! It’s exactly like that Oscar Wilde quote about temptation; “I can resist everything except writing about time management”! But, as we know all too well, the plain truth is that you cannot manage time – you can only choose how [...]

Successful Career Change Using Goals, Coaching and Mentoring – Q & A

There was one question submitted on the topic of successful career change using goals, coaching and mentoring: http://markmccluretoday.com/question-and-answer-time 1-Fred Friedman wrote: Q1-Isn’t career change just running away from problems you’ll meet again anyway? A1- Let me start by reminding you that there are no such things as problems – only opportunities Sorry for that helpless [...]