One unnerving aspect to career change is leaving safe and familiar territory to take a calculated risk in some unexplored field.
Even with years of experience and transferable skills, it can be an exciting but often nerve racking ride - as you find yourself (temporarily) “knowingly incompetent” in new skills others have already mastered.
Rather than being [...]
Well, I can truthfully report that Al Secunda’s 15 Second Principle works for me - in the form of using it to finally release the audio interview I did with him some weeks ago now.
Ever the latent perfectionist, I soon noticed the urge to do anything but publish the d^%n thing!
Such as:
editing it with Audacity [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Thinking about “following your passion” but not sure how to combine your “day job” with your “hobby”?
(Note: there is some adult content on Danny’s site and it may not be safe to access from work.)
Danny Choo’s story is worth spending some time on.
I like how he continues to use skills acquired in the corporate world [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
“I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it?”
Richard Bach, from his book, “One”.
An intriguing aspect of career change coaching is that while my primary role is one of service, I find that I am often challenged personally by the very same questions that my clients are dealing with.
Take, [...]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
From time to time I hear about big lottery winners and feel a wee touch of envy. Then, like a passing cloud, it’s gone and I think no more about it (helps that I don’t buy lottery tickets lol!)
And very occasionally a winner comes along who’s been in poor health for years and goes on [...]
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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 [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
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 [...]
Sunday, February 10, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2008
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 [...]
