by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Speaking at a session of “Lives in Transition” a networking and support group north of New York City, I was inspired by the resourcefulness of the participants. Many had started businesses or were charging for services to make money knowing that waiting for their respective industries to…
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What’s Energy Got To Do With It?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang Feeling stuck stinks. Nothing’s working. Everything weighs heavily on you and clarity just doesn’t want to come. As the anxiety grows and you try harder to make decisions or force answers, the worse things seem to get. So what do you do? Here’s what I’d ask you…
GIVING THANKS GIVES WAY TO SMOOTH CAREER TRANSITIONS
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang We all know to say please and thank you and send those post-interview thank you notes. We all know that Thanksgiving is the time to give thanks for all we have. These are good habits and fruitful ones. However, there are more ways that gratitude can make…
COMMITMENT In A WORLD OF FAST CHANGE
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang In our short-attention-span, instant-gratification, electronic world, it gets increasingly harder for people to stick with something. Everything changes so quickly—our amazing new gizmo will become obsolete in two years or less, as will our initiatives in the workplace or at home. So many changes, at ever increasing…
SUSPENDED REALITY
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang THERE COMES A TIME, in almost every career transition, when clarity comes and a sense of determination kicks in despite every logical reason for it not to. There comes a suspended reality where you almost can’t believe you are moving forward in this new chosen direction yet there…
WHAT MAKES LUCK FLOW?
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang It is often debated whether you can make your own luck or not. Personally, I find my luck-making skills to be seasonal but fundamentally in place and ever-improving. However, through 20 years of clients and hundreds of Now What? ® Facilitator anecdotes, there is enough evidence to…