Archive for July, 2007
Have you written your lists of skills, likes, and desires? Last week’s article gave you three areas to focus on to help give you clues about your next possible career. If you missed the article, you can check it out here on my blog http://www.segaric.com/blog/.Now what do you do with these lists?Introspection will only get […]
3 Simple Ways to Narrow Down Your Next Career
If you’ve ever worked with me or heard me speak, you know I don’t use assessments like the DISC, Meyers Briggs, etc. with my clients. I think they can be great but I prefer to help you find your best career through a combination of some self-introspection […]
It’s happened to me.I set the most sincere intention to accomplish a project–update my website, develop a new seminar, or work on my new career change product (actually coming soon!)–and life gets in the way. I catch a cold or my daughter does. My computer crashes–horribly. Or I seem to get a burst of inspiration […]
Career changes–or really any big change for that matter–involve a measure of fear and doubt. This is normal. What is also normal is for a career change to attract critics to us like a magnet. UGH! It’s frustrating to have to deal with people questioning your decisions and actions when you yourself are trying to […]
What’s your purpose? I bet some of you are plagued by this question. When you’ve decided it’s time to stop settling at your job and start doing work you love, you can’t help but ask yourself, “What am I supposed to be doing?” But for different reasons, many of you can not come up with […]
This past weekend, Memorial Day Weekend, marks the unofficial beginning of the summer season. In honor of the first weekend that most beaches open up in the US, I’m sharing with you my must read summer book list for career changers. Ok, so they may not be your typical beach reads but they are the […]
I’ve heard it all…“I should have figured this out by now!”
“Now is not really a good time for me to change careers. I should have done it before I bought the house/had kids/took this job/turned 40/etc.”
“Why didn’t I change careers years ago when I didn’t have so many responsibilities?”
“I’ll have to start from the bottom […]
Throughout the years, I’ve met lots of people who seemed to want so desperately to change careers but couldn’t get out of their own way to make it happen. I thought I’d share with you the lessons learned by one such would-be career changer who after some coaching realized how she had been leading herself […]
It seems everyone around me is working longer and longer hours. My husband used to have the occasional early morning conference call when he needed to be in by 7 a.m. Now, that seems to be the norm everyday. My brother is on the first train into Grand Central each day and can usually be […]
I’ve heard from a ton of you who feel you need a break when it comes to finding the money to change careers. While you don’t need to hit the jackpot to make your dream change a reality, you do need to re-frame how you see your career change happening in the first place.Most people […]
