Exploring next career moves, doing a job search or starting a new endeavor like your own business are all daunting and often, frustrating propositions. Many times you’ll come up against a lack of results or clarity that dumps a heap of hopelessness on you in the from of “I want to quit!!” Should you? To…
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Seven-Year Itch
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang On the seventh month of the year, I am reminded about the ‘Seven-Year-Itch.’ If you’re not familiar with that term, it’s usually used in the context of romantic relationships or marriage where the newness is gone and there could be a growing restlessness to explore new horizons.…
You Asked, You Got, Then Came Trouble
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Have you ever had the experience of setting out to make a positive change in your life, only to have it start an avalanche of changes that scares and overwhelms you? A few of my clients have had this experience lately and I’ve seen it a lot over…
Are Your Knuckles White?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang white-knuckle: adj. 1. causing fear, apprehension, or panic 2. experiencing fear, terror, or apprehension When I hear the term ‘white-knuckling’ I get the image of someone dangling from a cliff or a building holding on for dear life. And it’s that image that comes to mind working…
Is It OK To Be Content?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang After speaking to one-thousand people at a conference complete with Q&A and spending a weekend with retreat participants who had life-changing ah-ha’s, one question that stuck with me in the two weeks hence was: “Is it OK to be content?” Asked of me by someone in my…
Got Dogg? (Dogged Determination That Is)
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang I live with four stubborn mules. They also happen to be my husband and children. (Whose idea was it to put a coach in the home of the UNCOACHABLESTM?) I have to use great skill to rally support for unpopular notions even if that notion is a vacation…