Music to Work By: Shad

Do you like to listen to music when you work? I do. It helps me to be more creative and enjoy myself. I have my favorites but I especially enjoy being introduced to new music. However, there are so many artists out there its difficult to pay attention to them all and still enjoy the old stand bys. So I want to introduce a new segment to the blog called “Music to Work By”.

5 Essential Steps to Landing Your Dream Job

The best way to open this post would be to have a meaningful story about how my ebook 5 Essential Steps to Landing Your Dream Job was inspired by the night I couldn’t sleep so I watched the J.K. Rowling episode on the Biography channel where she goes back to the apartment where she lived pre Harry Potter and breaks down in tears as she ponders how far she has come.

5 Ways To Know It’s Time For a Career Change

Last week I bought a new pair of shoes. I bought the same brand of shoes three years ago and I loved them so I was excited to get a brand new pair. Everything was going well on the first day I wore them. A little stiff here, breaking them in there, the usual with new shoes. However, at some point during the day I noticed some significant discomfort on the top part of my foot. I just chalked it up to the break in period of new shoes so I

How To Deal With a Boss From a Different Generation

I once knew of someone whose boss had them print out all his emails. Then the boss would hand write responses on the hard copy email. After that she had to respond to each of the emails with what the boss had written down on the hard copy. Wow. Painful to say the least. That is a pretty extreme case, but what do you do when your boss doesn’t appreciate…

How Throwing Up May Be Good For Your Career

Recently I had an exchange with someone that went like this.
“How was your fifty mile run?’
“It went really well. After I finished the run I threw up for three hours. It was great!”
It was great? I thought about that statement for a couple of days afterward. Here was a seemingly lucid man…

How to Escape Your Career Coal Mine

In southern West Virginia during the late 19th and early 20th century there was really only one good option for work. The coal mine. The coal mine meant hard work, black lung, and a steady pay check. If your granddad worked there, your dad worked there, and guess what? You were going to work there too. Seemingly there weren’t a lot of choices. In times past children were expected…

Are You Clark Kent or Superman?

Your inner Clark Kent isn’t a bad guy. He’s easy to get along with, he keeps his head down, doesn’t cause trouble and gets the job done. He shows up between 8 and 5 Monday through Friday and pretty much everybody likes Clark. The problem is Clark knows what it’s like to be Superman. You see your inner Superman shows up sometime after 5pm and on the weekends. Superman has a fantastic time doing everything else except…