Career Change can begin with some big picture goal setting.
Click the picture to see Winter give way to Spring.
- Mark McClure
The right hand side of my mouth is still numb as I write this post.
Yes, that’s right. I’ve been at the dentist.
After adopting an “out of sight, out of mind” approach for nearly 3 years, I finally plucked up the courage to go for a checkup.
Six visits later, 3 cavities have been drilled and filled!
At [...]
Today is Valentine’s Day and in Japan that sees the fair sex leaving small chocolate presents on the desks of selected male co-workers.
Over the years I’ve received beautifully wrapped and absolutely gorgeous gourmet chocolate - all anonymously of course.
And all above board.
Since receiving chocolate is apparently a gift of friendship and not of romantic intentions. [...]
Yesterday I introduced the idea of “big goals” as an indication of your broader career vision (or visionary blueprint).
But big goals (or “OG” goals as I refer to them) are only 1 of 4 types of goals I am aware of - each of which can be created in one or more major areas [...]
People sometimes ask me, when they learn that one role I play is as a career change coach, what gives with all this goal setting?
Now, these are ’smart’ (pun intended) folks who’ve learned to successfully use goal setting as a necessary “getting on” tool within the corporate world.
So why do I often get the [...]
What did you make of Scott’s “Do The Unthinkable” story I wrote about yesterday?
Any doors creaking open for you after reading it?
I was struck by two things from the video on his home page:
The life changing impact on Scott of watching Sarah Reinhartsen become the first single amputee to complete an IronMan Triathlon. This was [...]
While I was doing some online research for my upcoming series of posts on success and goal setting, I came across this incredible “Do The Unthinkable” interview of Scott Rigsby by Mark Hayward.
Ever put off setting a really BIG (aka ‘do the unthinkable’) goal in your life or haven’t discovered it yet?
Well, here’s a cool [...]
If you’re considering a career change you probably already know how useful it can be to create a basic plan and start following it!
Here’s a careers adviser whose blog I came upon by chance.
Thanks to the incredible shrinking digital world, turns out she’s from the same wee land as myself!
While the article below seems brief [...]
What did you have for lunch last Friday?
Too easy?
OK. Try this one.
Where were you on 1st April last year?
And what was the weather like?
Long term memory is a fickle thing, it seems.
Even what happened on especially important days like your birthday can fuzz and blur as time goes on. (I guess that’s why politicians and [...]
Many in the personal development world are fond of quoting this statement:
“Quitters never win. Winners never quit.”
But, in the context of work and careers, can a person sometimes win by quitting?
I think most would agree that there’s certainly risk in quitting a job or career path - sometimes quantifiable, often not.
From a career coaching perspective [...]
