Getting and Keeping Going!

“If you want to be truly successful, invest in yourself to get the knoweldge you need to find your unique factor.  When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.” ~ Sidney Madwed The task of finding or changing work can seem like a long and dauntless task.  The incentive to start [...]

Why Do You Want a New Career?

Why are you thinking about changing your career?   Do you want to create and grow, step up, or just survive?   We all have reasons for doing things.  The most successful people have the strongest reasons why they do what they do.  If one of your children needed a medical treatment that would keep them healthy [...]

Gratitude for the Journey

The Path that Leads to Me I gave a presentation yesterday on the power and energy in our words.  This is an important subject to me because I believe that words are very precious things and should be used with care. One of the reasons why I discovered the power in words was because of [...]

Scary and Exciting Steps

BRAVE OR CRAZY?! I made a commitment to complete the rough draft of my book by May 3rd!  Yikes!  Scary and exciting at the same time.  I have no doubt that I can do it, but whenever I make a big commitment like that, something inside of me seems to wake up, curl its lip [...]

Seeing the Change

How clear is your journey? A client of mine recently lamented that she has not landed another position, despite being laid off for nearly three months. “I feel as if I haven’t accomplished a thing during this time and I’ve gotten no where.”  This made me chuckle a little.  This client is hard extremely working [...]

Sometimes it is Necessary to Let Go

Ever had one of those days when you were sure nothing would go right?  My day started when I pasted a new worksheet into a large Excel workbook, and faithfully saved, only to click on another worksheet within and find that my paste job had pasted itself onto every worksheet!  Because I had saved, I [...]

Staying Positive Through Difficult Change

A wolf must be fed to be strong As you are out, on what may seem to be an endless job hunt, in a difficult economy, what things are you saying to yourself? There is an old story about a boy who was attempting to improve his archery, but was not doing well.  In frustration, [...]

The Right Career Can Influence Your World!

Is what you do for a living truly a reflection of you? While standing in the grocery line the other day, the woman in front of me asked the cashier how she could stand just ringing groceries all day.  The cashier looked at the rude questioner, smiled and said:  “I like to meet real people.  [...]

Spring into Action With a Plan

Spring is here! The shortened daylight, colder weather, festivities, concerns and added burdens of the winter months have come to an end. The brighter weather has lit a bit of a fire under me and given me new energies to put into my goals.  This is perhaps because spring is the season of change and [...]

A New Career Takes Time

I recently had the priviledge of teaching at a business expo sponsored by Military SEEDS (www.militaryseeds.com).  The purpose of the group and the expo is to expose miltary spouses to alternative careers which may be transplanted with them as they are re-assigned to different bases and provide mentoring and assistance to make the new career [...]