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10 Questions Worth Answering No Matter How Old You Are
One of my clients woke up a few months ago on her 40th birthday and decided to call me for coaching, as she put it, “so I can get some things sorted out.” She explained that she had been feeling adrift and unsure about what direction to go with her life. She had...
What’s Your Life Purpose?
The best career guidance I can give you if you feel your work lacks zest and meaning is to take the time to really get to know yourself and uncover your life purpose. Feeling restless at work - what I call “divine discontent” - is an internal signal...
Change Your Career and Go From Stress to Bliss
We work for more than money; work lets us cultivate our talents and interests, enables us to prosper, and contributes to our success in life. Work provides us with relationships that encourage our achievements which, in turn, stimulate good mental...
Ten Books that Shaped My Career
We often think of teachers as the kind that come with bodies and are found standing at the front of college classrooms. But teachers can also take the form of written words printed on the pages of a book. Some of my most important teachers have been this...
The Meaning of Life and How Happiness Ensues
It was1942 and Austrian authorities were rounding up and arresting Jews as part of their annihilation grand scheme. A young Jewish psychiatrist named Viktor Frankl and his wife,Tilly were among those who believed they would soon be among the missing. Viktor had...
How to Age Well and Live a Happy Life
There are many paths to successful aging and there has yet to be found one “right” way to grow old. But people who age well – who demonstrate “positive aging” – set an example of loving life and being grateful for everything they have. They are less depressed than...
Strategic Renewal: Naps and Vacations Help You Relax and Be More Productive
Consider your typical workday: do you wake up feeling tired? Do you take a quick peek at e-mails before you eat breakfast? Do you tend to skip breakfast on most days, or grab something lacking in nutrition on the drive to work? Do you work through lunch, eat at...
How to Overcome Obstacles in Life: Five Strategies that Life Coaches Use to Help Clients Succeed
Obstacles are what turn simple things we want to do into difficult things. Obstacles can be caused by external forces, like time and money, or by internal ones such as our own habits and fears. They require us to change, and that is universally something...
The Hidden Power of Your Heart and the Remarkable Role It Plays in Job Interviews
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, and forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ...
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put...