by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang When one goes to Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, like I did this month, you are given repeated instructions on how to deal with a Grizzly Bear should you encounter one. You don’t run. That would trigger the bears’ chase instinct and they will outrun…
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What My Kid’s Summer Job Can Teach You
What does a 12-year old’s summer job have to do with you? It may reflect a critical point where you have strayed from your Life Blueprint®*. In considering what your next career move might be, it’s important to consider the critical pieces you left behind long ago that might come back into your life now…
Protect Yourself from Yack, Yack, Yack
Have you ever been sitting in the waiting room for an interview or other important meeting where people start yacking? Some are bragging, some are just answering questions from the braggart, and some are trying to stay out of it but suffering through the noise unable to block it out. Sound familiar? Which one are…
Does Burn Out Mean Get Out?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Do you suffer from burn out? Dreading waking up in the morning to face another workday? Sick of dealing with people and their issues at work? Feeling like you can’t get on top of work no matter how much you try? Wishing you’d get sick, just to get…
HALF-TRUTHS KEEP YOU STUCK
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang People operate in half-truths. Being polite often means not communicating how we really feel. We swallow the truth to keep our jobs, our friends and to maintain the peace in the family. It’s likely better that way, but when it comes to figuring out next career and…
Eight Ways to Beat Hibernation
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang In the United States, we have a ridiculous ritual on February 2nd where we wait for a groundhog, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to see (or not) its shadow as an indication to how soon spring will come. This year, he did not see his shadow and the prediction…