How to use negative life experiences to uncover the truth of your right work
How to Write Your Way into Your Right Work
July 19th, 2010 No comments »Do you think about changing jobs? The power to do so is right under your nose…well, behind your nose actually! Stored in your brain are memories about events and activities you truly enjoyed in life since childhood. Here are some tips for analyzing your life history for key success factors that reveal work [...]
Brain Food for Career Change
June 15th, 2010 No comments »Science has learned a lot about how the brain works during the past 50 years. For example, the physical brain, made up of brain matter, blood vessels, nerves, neurons, and so on, can be repaired, even rewired, and circuits regenerated. The brain is capable of creating new structures that can make it more [...]
Beating the Peter Principle
May 15th, 2010 No comments »If you watch the popular TV comedy The Office, you may find it hard to believe that Michael Scott–branch manager of paper company Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, PA–was ever competent at anything! He appears to have no talent whatsoever for managing others.
He is the embodiment of the Peter Principle, first formulated in a 1969 [...]
Do our brains want to work or win lotteries?
April 16th, 2010 1 comment »Do you work hard for your money? If, yes, then you get more satisfaction from your cash than Paris Hilton!
I know it’s hard to believe but researchers who study the pleasure center of the brain say that lottery winners, trust-fund babies like Paris, and others who get their money without working for it, do not [...]
When Career Change is not like a Diet
March 16th, 2010 1 comment »I recently lost 16 lbs in the space of 6 weeks. We live in a sit down culture
and much of my work is performed in a chair in front of clients and computers.
The middle-age pot belly is an inevitable result for many modern workers.
Because I am not an exercise machine or gym membership or fad [...]
Blow Your Horn
February 13th, 2010 4 comments »Job search studies regularly show that it is not the best qualified candidate who gets the job most of the time. Instead, it is the strongest communicator. Why?
We live in a storytelling culture. We learn about each other and the world around us through story. Think of all the time you [...]
Danger of Success
January 15th, 2010 4 comments »Some of the most “successful” people in the world hate their jobs.
In the first pages of his new autobiography, former tennis star, Andre Agassiz, writes: “I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion.” Turns out that Agassiz won eight Grand Slam titles with a [...]
A Lesson from the Grinch
December 8th, 2009 4 comments »This is the time of year when various versions of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ appear on television. He’s a mean one, Mr. Grinch—that ol’ sourpuss who had his heart broken as a young man (he lost his girl to his rival, the mayor of Who-ville.)
Misery loves company, and the Grinch tries to [...]
How to Inoculate against job flus and blues
November 16th, 2009 2 comments »The current economic recession has resulted in millions of layoffs for workers across North America. On top of that, there is an H1N1 pandemic forcing millions to lay down from work for a week or more, jeopardizing good health, or even job security.
Learning to adapt to changing circumstances in life is a necessary skill. Being [...]
