“I know what I want to do, but it won’t pay the bills!” My answer to that is “It may not pay them all right away, but don’t let that be a reason to stay stuck.” One of the biggest obstacles to people making a change (when they DO know what they want to do)…
Now What? Newsletter Articles
When Doing What’s Right Makes Everything Go Wrong
A whistleblower losing their job and being black balled in their field. A politically active executive seeing no choice other than to resign after being harassed for their beliefs. A kid in school getting in trouble for trying to help the victim of a bully. One of the most confounding dynamics of being human is…
Let Darkness Give Way to Light
There is so much darkness in our world right now: repeated loss of life to the ravages of terrorists or racial tensions, and the polarity of approaches to the political climate in the United States. It’s not unusual for the events of the world to shuffle the balance of darkness and light within us. Big…
Were You Set Up for Success but Feel Like a Failure?
Doing everything right is no guarantee that you’ll be happy or satisfied. My Tedx Talk has been bringing me all kinds of interesting inquiries about coaching and people sharing their stories with me. Sometimes, a theme emerges from a rush of interest and lately, I’ve been talking to young men in their late twenties and…
Coda: The High School Senior’s Decision That Became A College Freshman’s Evolution
Employable, profitable, steady. Isn’t that what most people would want their kid’s course of study and career trajectory to be? For my eldest son, that path lasted less than the first semester of his freshman year and I couldn’t be happier. In honor of the graduation season and new endings and beginnings, I’m revisiting the…
How Long Is Too Long to Be Unemployed?
No one likes to be unemployed. Anxiety is high as uncertainty becomes your daily bread. Doing the hard work of securing a job is enough to make you want to take very long naps even on the sunniest of temperate days. You put on your “big boy/big girl undies” and get to the biz of…