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I am a Passion Catalyst (sm), helping people identify their passions and create careers that ignite them.
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How to get Wild About Work
Want to get Wild About Work? Check out my new blog at www.wildaboutwork.com. It's aimed at helping you create an energized, impactful, heart-based career. What's not to love about that?? Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2014 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Come join the Ripple Revolution!
Do you want to change the world? Want to live an energizing life? Then you just might be a Ripple Revolutionary! Come join me at the Ripple Revolution blog. The Ripple RevolutionTM is a movement to change the way we... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2012 at The M.A.P. Maker
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What's your multidimensional profit?
Ask most anyone why they work, and their answer is most likely to be some variation of "for the paycheck." Money is clearly a huge motivation for those of us who forgot to hit the independently wealthy button on the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2012 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Open the door to possibility: Challenge your first no
For most people, saying no to possibilities seems to be an ingrained response. "No, that won't work. No, that's not realistic. No, I can't do something like that." In the last 10+ years of helping people create careers that energize... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2012 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Positive change: The BIG power of small
As you embark on the new year, you might be tempted to use it as an occasion to make wholesale change in your life. My advice? Don't! Wholesale, grand scale change almost never works. You run at it fueled by... Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2012 at The M.A.P. Maker
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New year's resolution success: Make it a 1-year project
If you're like most people, your new year's resolutions are anything but a path to long-lasting positive change. You make a resolution, stick with it for a couple weeks before letting it lapse, and then beat up on yourself for... Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2012 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Employee retention keys: Passion and career planning
Companies invest a lot in finding top talent. Unfortunately, they often don't seem to invest as much in keeping them once they're on board. A recent Forbes article offers up the top ten reasons why large companies fail to keep... Continue reading
Posted Dec 15, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Unplug to energize yourself
When was the last time you slowed down and got out of your daily grind? When was the last time you unplugged and let your daily distractions fall by the wayside? Most of us stay plugged in for way too... Continue reading
Posted Nov 29, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Are you killing your forward momentum?
As I write this, I’m sitting on a friend’s boat near San Francisco. It’s a cool, grey, slightly misty day. I’m up top, bundled up in a blanket with a hot cup of coffee and a laptop. A perfect spot... Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Reduce stress by eliminating negative self-talk
A couple weeks ago I posted about the impact of your self-talk on your ability to stay positive. Here's an article from the Mayo Clinic taking a look at that idea and offering some suggestions for how to manage your self-talk and steer it in a more positive direction. Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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Start a stress journal
With stress management, as with so many things, awareness is key. You can't do anything about what you're only vaguely aware of. Without that awareness, your only choice is to sit back and let stress drive. You become a puppet, and stress becomes the puppeteer. To take back the steering... Continue reading
Posted Aug 29, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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Is lack of self-kindness limiting your potential?
What if you knew someone who, every time you tried something new and wobbled a bit, or expressed your perspective less than gracefully, got in your face and started berating you, yelling like a drill sergeant, red-faced and spluttering with... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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25 self-confidence boosting actions
If the job search has your self-confidence a little frayed around the edges, here are 25 things you can do to give it a boost. Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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Use questions to create a positive perspective
The way you experience the world is shaped in large part by how you look at it. When your perspective goes on autopilot (which for many people is most of the time) there's a danger of creating a self-reinforcing negative loop. This article (from my main blog, The M.A.P. Maker)... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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33 ways to keep yourself motivated
The job search can feel like an endless long slog through the muck. Part of staying positive during that time is staying motivated to keep plugging away. Here's a great post with 33 ways to keep yourself motivated. Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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Stress wrangling: How to tame your stress
Face it. You're going to experience stress. It's just a part of life. And while there's nothing you can do to avoid stress entirely, there's a lot you can do to change your experience of it. There are two kinds... Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Positive thinking for pessimists
OK, so you've heard about what a great tool positive thinking is. You've read how it can shift your focus and even your perception of what is and isn't possible. There's just one glitch - you're a natural pessimist, and... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Share your survival story
When the shit hits the fan, it can be challenging to believe that we really have what it takes to make it through. As this article points out, one way to reinforce the belief that we really do have what it takes is to share your survival stories: If you... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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Secret sauce for job search positivity: Your self-talk
You spend hours crafting your resume, practicing for interviews, and creating just the right elevator pitch. But how much time do you spend working on your self-talk? For most people, the answer would be, "not a lot." And that's unfortunate, because how you talk to yourself has a huge impact... Continue reading
Posted Aug 21, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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Take a free-range approach to your internal voices
If you're anything like most people, you have multiple voices in your head competing all at once for space. Some of them you like, so you welcome them out in the open. Others you want to keep hidden away. Not... Continue reading
Posted Aug 19, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Forget work-life balance (go with work-life flow)
Do you want work-life balance? Good luck. It's a mythical beast based on one hugely erroneous assumption - that you have control over the world. The reality (and you probably don't need me to tell you this) is that you... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Develop a stress management ecosystem
The posts in this blog tend to link to specific ideas for relieving stress and feeling more positive, but in reality it's not a one-shot deal. There are many things that affect both the stress you feel and your ability to cope with it. And those things are often interrelated,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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One small question that can change your life
If you want to know what will life look like for you in five years, or even next year, look no further than the choices you are making and the actions you are taking today. You're manufacturing the future through... Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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Job Search Happy Hour (new blog)
I started a new blog recently aimed at helping job seekers minimize their stress and maximize their positive outlook. It's called Job Search Happy Hour. I decided to start the blog as a public service of sorts because so often... Continue reading
Posted Aug 11, 2011 at The M.A.P. Maker
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No arms, no legs, no worries
Next time you feel like life is giving you a big fat smackdown, watch this. Continue reading
Posted Aug 11, 2011 at Job Search Happy Hour
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