An excerpt from Exit Stage Right: The Career Change Handbook for Performers. A partial version also appears in Game Plan. There are a whole lot of people out there (and talk shows and magazines and, yes, self-help books) telling you to Do! What! You’re! Passionate! About! – and that’s lovely, inspiring even. After all, no […]
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Working the 9-5 is showing up simply in order to get a paycheck. Having a job is a survival mechanism rather than a thriving mechanism. So how do we take a job from surviving to thriving? By having a fulfilling career rather than a job we’re surviving. Career Thrive! A thriving career allows you, as
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I have become convinced that one of the most important things humans do in life is to be in relationship with one another. As a pastor and hospital chaplain, all I do is tend to relationships. Relationships are complicated, complex, messy, thrilling, incredible, sad, loving, full of drama, full of meaning, some are good, some
I’m always on the lookout for inspiration, and fortunately, I can find it almost anywhere. It’s one of the reasons I love to travel. Since the senses are heightened around new circumstances, it’s an opportunity to reconnect to the world sensorially. For this reason, one of my favorite destinations is Finland. It’s one of the
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A couple of years ago I was walking up Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It was the end of a long day and I was feeling and looking pretty drab compared to the impeccably dressed employees of Park Avenue’s Fortune 500 companies. As I approached the corner and was about to step into the street,
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Earlier this year, the Director of Development at my alma mater, the University of Oregon, reached out and requested a meeting with architectural alumni like myself who were still part of the industry and even appearing to thrive in it despite the recession of the early 21st century as well as the Great Recession of
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Want to know if you have a badass brand? Take this short quiz: Do you magnetically attract ideal clients? Can you charge a premium price (in other words, more than your competitors) and still win the business? Being able to charge a premium price for your services is the cornerstone for having a badass brand
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