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Jobless rate hits 7.2% - yikes!

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

In reading the headlines from the New York Times today I saw this: Jobless Rate Hits 7.2%, a 16-Year High
 
This is very disturbing news, especially if you are one of the 7.2%.  It makes me wonder how many people see this as an opportunity vs. a curse.  
 
I remember a lady who I worked with at [...]

Waiting Is OK

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

One of the time mastery experts from whom we heard during our recent Time Experts Telesummit talked about the way we are conditioned to react to stimuli.  He asked listeners to reflect on how they react to things such as a newly arrived email, a ringing phone, a doorbell, a fire alarm.  And I noticed [...]

GraceWorks

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I had the privilege of spending some time with the folks at GraceWorks yesterday.  As described on their website, GraceWorks was established by Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in partnership with secular resources, and exists to provide job search and career transition support for unemployed and underemployed professionals of the San Francisco Bay Area. GraceWorks [...]

Paying attention to the coaching

Monday, November 24th, 2008

 
The coaching is around you always …it’s your job to pay attention to it.
 
This means that life is always giving you information, and the more you pay attention to what the messages are, the more you can navigate through it with ease.
 
My time in TX has been a reminder of this concept, to be open [...]

Jamie

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

I have a client and let’s call him Jamie.  Jamie has a job he can’t stand, except for the fact that he is allowed to do it half a world away from the organization’s headquarters.  So even though he now rolls his eyes so much during conference calls that he’s in danger of going cross-eyed, [...]

More Fun With Johnny B.

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I shared with you earlier this week about Daniel Pink’s Johnny Bunko career guide “comic” book and what it has to say about making plans and following them (or not).  Another concept I wanted to share with you from the book has to do with why we choose to do the things we do when [...]

The Gift of Our Discontent

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

“The most precious gift God has given to this land is not its great riches of soil and forest and land, but the divine discontent planted deeply in the hearts of the American people.”
–Newspaper editor William Allen White
Political pundit Chris Matthews closed his Sunday show this week with this quote and shared the following about [...]

Big Experiment

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

I’m conducting a big experiment this month.  I’ve decided to put my idea of independent work to the ultimate test, and leave San Francisco to spend a month in Dallas.When I worked for Corporate America, aka ‘the man’, I used to fantasize about being able to take off for extended periods and still earn a [...]

What is Your Why?

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
–Friedrich Nietzsche
In our Time Experts Telesummit today, Dr. Jim Loehr reminded us of this quote as he talked about time—and energy–management.  And I immediately wanted to share it with you here on our LICA blog because I think it speaks to why many of [...]

Brain in a blender

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

This is what my brain feels like this week; like it’s been blenderized.I’ve just gone through a workshop entitled, “Become an Inspiring Speaker”, and I’m in the process of preparing to leave San Francisco for a month of working from my parents house in Dallas…Both of these endeavors require my utmost attention, both are revamping [...]

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