Job Hunting Requires Artistry and Science
It’s helpful to be both artist and scientist as you navigate the choppy seas of work transition. Artists are creative, spontaneous, imaginative, sensitive, entertaining, and innovative. Scientists are...
View ArticleThe Web is Only Part of the Solution
Photo by Osman Rana on Unsplash It’s a tool of course. Yes, you have to continually use pertinent to your field search engines and bang away on the best job boards and employer websites for you. But...
View ArticleLosing and Finding
Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash At age 70, I’m (no surprise to anyone), feeling the hurt of friends, colleagues, and relatives dying. Or as I call it in lighter moments, making the big...
View ArticleReinventing Yourself
Photo by Peter Lewicki on Unsplash Career Counselors/Coaches hear clients who are dissatisfied with their existing work say a lot, “I don’t know what it is that I want, I just know I need something...
View ArticleAs You Start Upon Your Way…
Photo by Alex Siale on Unsplash “AS YOU START UPON YOUR WAY, THE WAY WILL APPEAR.” -Rumi Rumi, 13th century Persian poet, scholar and theologian, said it and it never ceases to astound me how ancient...
View ArticleIn Calling Me To Live My Special Qualities and Characteristics..
“In calling me to live my special qualities and characteristics, God planted deep in myself an original purpose---what my concrete self ‘adds up to’ and to live out." -St. Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius...
View ArticleAn Amazing, Beautiful Gift
It’s the rare occasion when you request a favor of a friend that he (she) gives you an amazing, beautiful gift. I asked my good friend and co-founder of the Center for Life Transitions to review my...
View ArticleThere is Nothing More Joyous Than Being Able to Truly Make Use of Oneself Again
“There is nothing more joyous than being able to truly make use of oneself again, whether in the service of plans or memories; and what is most beautiful is the moment when plans and memories coincide...
View ArticleFalling and Getting Up
In these challenging times, we fail and succeed with the things we need to do to be safe and keep others safe, and act on compassion to those who need us. Like most good, hard things, this is a work in...
View ArticlePreparing for Transitions
These challenging times have more and greater transitions than we dreamed possible. Ordering groceries online, opening our homes to family as safer places, saying good-byes because we can’t travel or...
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