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3 Questions to Ask When You Can’t Decide What to Do
Have you ever laid awake at night stressing about the “right” answer to a tough decision? We’ve all been there. Especially when it comes to deciding what to do with your career, a lot of big questions come up that can feel hard to answer. Here are three questions to help you get unstuck. 1) Do I need to make this decision? I know on the surface it might seem like the obvious answer is yes, but I see so many clients trying to make decisions that they don’t need to (and actually really can’t) make right now. Are you trying to decide what your answer is to a job offer you haven’t gotten yet? Or worrying about how you’ll find a new job in a year or two if you take some time off now to be with your baby? Or stressing about how you’ll manage it all if…
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Feel Stuck By Fear? Read This.
All of us feel fear at one time or another. Fear of failing, of having regrets, of not fitting in, of not being good enough, of being alone, of being judged. The list goes on. When it comes to finding work you love, fear tends to crop up big time. As soon as we start to dream of or take steps toward a life and career that’s more fulfilling and HAPPIER, fear steps in and tells us all the reasons why what we want won’t work. Fear used to paralyze me. I knew I was unhappy in my string of corporate jobs but I didn’t know what to do instead. I was scared that I’d never figure out what I wanted to do with my life, scared of taking a leap only to realize it was the wrong choice, scared of running out of money or disappointing those I loved…
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How to Survive Your Job
At one point or another most of us have a job we want to escape. Not surprisingly, many of my clients come to me wanting out of their jobs ASAP. But as important as it is to do work you love, it’s not always possible to leave that old job right away. You might have financial obligations, want to build up some savings before you take the leap, or you just might not know what you want to do instead. So what do you do in the meantime, when you dread going to work and feel like your soul is being slowly sucked from your body every day that you’re there? As someone who was unhappy in more jobs than I’d like to count, here are some strategies for not just surviving but finding some happiness in your day. As a side note, if your job situation is truly toxic…
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5 Signs You’re Undervaluing Yourself
I spent much of my life playing it safe. I jumped from company to company, taking jobs that I had little to no passion for because of what they represented: a “respectable” option, and an escape from the last job. So many people around me seemed dissatisfied with their jobs too. Eventually I accepted it as just a fact of life. I told myself that some people got lucky & found work they loved and that maybe I just wasn’t one of them. I told myself I should be grateful to have a job at all and to stop complaining. I told myself that I couldn’t afford to make the kind of dramatic career change I longed for, both because of the fear of screwing up my resume and becoming unmarketable and because I was literally scared of taking a pay cut, running out of money, and ending right back…
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What To Do When You Feel Like a Failure
“We’re putting you on a performance plan.” When I heard those words my face flushed and I instantly felt sick to my stomach. It was all I could do to sit there and listen to my manager detail out the ways in which I had failed to meet expectations. I had been working for nine months at what I thought was a dream job, as an Associate Brand Manager for Haagen-Dazs. When I got the job it seemed too good to be true. It was a coveted position in the Bay Area, where there are so few brand management jobs, many of which involved working on a product as exciting as canned tomatoes (literally). I had tried for two years to break into brand management with no luck, and would have killed for a job managing canned tomatoes! When I got the job at Haagen-Dazs I couldn’t believe they had…
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