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Is Work Life Balance a Bad Joke?
Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls– family, health, friends, integrity — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. ~ Gary Keller The subject of work life balance was a hot topic at a luncheon I recently attended. We discussed whether or not there even is such a thing. The main roadblocks to creating work life balance that came up as we went around the table were these: Not setting boundaries around what matters most Difficulty saying “no”
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You Can’t Fly into Learning to Fly
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche This month I celebrated my birthday. Nothing remarkable about that. It’s done every day by someone, somewhere. What makes this birthday special and worth noting is a present I received. You can see it in the photo. At first glance, you may not think it’s remarkable either. But it is to me. It will be a lifetime treasure because it was given to me by a client. On the inside of the
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Starting Your Business – Scary Excuse #2
“Instead of making excuses, why not make something happen?” Greg Hickman Nothing can be scarier when you are thinking about starting a business than believing that you don’t know how to do it. That stops many people in their tracks. We live in a culture where not knowing how to do something is grounds for a smack-down – at least in the media or on social media. Who wants to intentionally set themselves up for that? Nobody I know. The thing is – if you knew how to start a business, you would already be doing it. Setting yourself up to
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Starting Your Business – Scary Excuse #1
We can always work for less when we have more to live for. ~ S. Stephen McKenney Let’s face it. If you are in the thinking/dreaming phase of starting your business, money probably ranks at or near the top of your list of scary excuses not to do it. I get it. It certainly ranked at the top of mine when I dreamed of started my coaching practice. This concern weighs heavier if you are making a drastic change out of your corporate job into entrepreneurship, or if you are shifting into a completely different field. Here are a few questions
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How Do You Plot Your Next Career Move?
The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career. ~ Goldie Hawn People often ask me how they should go about plotting their next career move. Sometimes they act like I “should” have some secret formula for helping them make it happen. They think it should happen as easily and quickly as snapping their fingers. Sorry – I don’t have a one-size-fits-all formula. Finding one that does fit doesn’t usually happen just like that. Most of the time, plotting your Sexy Second Act career move is a marathon and not a
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Wanna Live a Sexy Life? Take Responsibility!
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~ Joan Didion In my book “Nail It”, I’m writing about the power of words and how you can use them as building blocks for designing your Sexy Second Act career or life. The words and phrases I chose for the book are ones that resonate with me. Each time a favorite word or phrase shows up, I have an opportunity to look more deeply into what it means and to share with you what I discover. Lately, the word “responsibility” is frequently
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Are You Heeding the Call of Your Inner Compass?
“Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.” ~ Julie Connor It’s easy to dismiss passion as something frivolous and impractical. But your inner compass knows better. The quote above reminds me of a woman, in her 70s, who came to a seminar experiencing a fair amount of chronic pain and illness. Like many people, she thought that by the time you reach a certain age, that’s just how it is and we should expect and accept pain and illness. She also had the idea that she had “been
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Are You a Creative Risk Taker?
Creative risk-taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. – Gary Ryan Blair Risk-taking and I have an uneasy relationship. To me, risk-taking generally means choosing between life and death with the odds falling on the side of death. Just thinking about the word makes my belly start doing flip-flops. I’m not going there – at least not willingly. Having my own business is teaching me to see risk-taking differently. Everything in life is a
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Why is Visioning So Dang Hard?
“Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision” – Anonymous Visioning a sexy-cool-bad-ass-off-the-charts-amazing second act life or career seems simple enough. Why then does it end up being so dang hard? Coaching and coaxing clients to design a vision for a Sexy Second Act career or life they can’t wait to get started living is a challenge. Sometimes it feels like I’m trying to pull an elephant’s tooth with a pair of tweezers. I know what you’re thinking. Tweezers are the wrong tool for pulling an elephant’s tooth. You’re right. And just
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