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End 2017 Where YOU Want
Happy new year. The turn of the calendar marks the beginning of the next chapter of your life. For the next 12 months, your activities and pursuits will take you somewhere. And at the end of 2017, you will be somewhere else. But where will you be? Will it be where you...
Guard Your Credibility
Only serious professionals value and work on their credibility—doing what they say they will do, when they say they will do it. It doesn’t just happen or everyone would have it. Since it takes focus and effort, not many have earned the confidence of others that their...
Knock It Out Of The Park
I write these weekly messages to motivate, inspire and challenge you to focus your energy and actions that will make you the professional you aspire to be. The goal is always to stimulate you to assume responsibility for your progress and your career. After all, it's...
Turn Fear To Anticipation
You know that feeling you get when you have to do something you’re not looking forward to? It’s a dull, sickening sensation that makes you want to ignore it or run away—anything but take it on because you fear or dread it. Yeah, that feeling is bad news. Now, you may...
Assess Your Leader Progress
It’s fairly difficult to assume a career as a professional and not take leadership seriously. Even if you don’t aspire to a leader role, you are or will be elevated to lead your clients, client work and younger staff. That being the case, you need to invest in your...
What Do You Tolerate?
I just returned from a counselor’s continuing education conference. Besides being able to geek out with my colleagues about behavior theory and practice, I co-presented an ethics seminar with a complaint investigator. Yes, I really did enjoy it. One of the concepts we...
Balance Your New-Biz Activity
If you are like most professionals, you didn’t get into the business to sell your services, but to perform them. Yet your career success is dependent on finding new clients for whom you can do your work. Here is a simple tool you can use to coordinate, prioritize and...
What’s In YOUR Belly?
One of my favorite actresses has earned a lot of money asking me on a regular basis, “What’s in YOUR wallet?” So I decided to use her question and ask you a slightly different version, “What’s in YOUR belly?” Not literally, because I really don’t care about your...
Clean The Crud From Pearls
Jimbo Fisher, head coach for the Florida Seminoles, passionately described to one of his players something he did wrong. The player seemed to shut down and stopped listening, which frustrated his coach. Jimbo had something important to say but the player refused to...
The Question Never Ends
If your career success were represented as a target, what would you label the bullseye? How much money you made? The degree of status you achieved? The depth of expertise in your discipline? The complex problems you solved? The number and quality of relationships you...
