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Those Dream Jobs Don’t Just Happen, They’re Created

Those Dream Jobs Don’t Just Happen, They’re Created

A Los Angeles Times headline today reads: Bernanke sees a jobless ‘crisis’. Here is an excerpt from an article by Valerie Young related to meaningful job-creation: While traveling in northern California a few years ago, I happened to tune into a local newscast. The newscaster was telling his co-anchor that the speaker at that morning’s [...]

Your Life in the Arts – Part 2

Your Life in the Arts – Part 2

In his new course Your Best Life in the Arts, creativity coach Eric Maisel, PhD provides “real answers to the challenges that confront you” as a creative person. Below are excerpts from summaries of the second seven topics of the course, running for 14 Mondays starting October 3. For each topic, I have added some [...]

Diversifying in a Challenging Economy

Diversifying in a Challenging Economy

What if you aren’t getting the acting jobs you want, or the writing assignments, or not enough people buy your paintings? What do you do when your primary creative endeavor does not support you enough emotionally or financially? Psychologist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel, PhD warns that this can have emotional consequences: “We get anxious [...]

Marie Forleo on Living in the Moment

Marie Forleo on Living in the Moment

“I don’t know if any entrepreneur ever feels like they truly made it, because entrepreneurs in general are people that want to create something new.” “One of the things that I teach people is to not live in their mind, but to stay very engaged in the moment and stay engaged in action. “When you [...]

Questions to Jumpstart Your Dream Career

Questions to Jumpstart Your Dream Career

By Allison Maslan As a life and career coach, I’ve helped thousands of people discover a new direction full of passion and meaning. One of the best tools is an inward search. The following questions can help you see your life and its possibilities through a completely new perspective. Write your answers in your journal [...]

Business Creativity and Innovation – Always Positive?

Business Creativity and Innovation – Always Positive?

“Everything you do as an entrepreneur, whether it’s writing, speaking, coming up with innovative ideas, etc… is sourced from your creativity.” Entrepreneur and coach Katie Freiling – from post (with video) A Powerful Strategy To Unleash Your Creative Genius. Business may thrive on innovation, but there is also research indicating that leaders should not be [...]

Katie Freiling: Unleash Your Creative Genius

Katie Freiling: Unleash Your Creative Genius

Entrepreneur Katie Freiling notes, “Your business is your art… And you are the artist, the creator. “Everything you do as an entrepreneur, whether it’s writing, speaking, coming up with innovative ideas, etc… is sourced from your creativity. “Unfortunately, many of us have lost our connection to this infinite source of creativity within us… and it’s [...]

Taking the leap to become an expert

Taking the leap to become an expert

Are you a psychologist, coach, artist, baker, clothing designer or someone with specialized knowledge? You can be even more helpful to a wider group of people as an expert. The photo is psychiatrist and brain imaging specialist Dr. Daniel Amen, who gives PBS presentations such as “Magnificent Mind at Any Age.” Maybe he is your [...]

Personal growth as an entrepreneur: Katie Freiling

Personal growth as an entrepreneur: Katie Freiling

Internet entrepreneur, coach and speaker Katie Freiling mentions a number of issues that can affect anyone, but may have particular significance for entrepreneurs: • Self-limiting beliefs • Fears and insecurities. She admits, “I know what it’s like to be severely limited by fear.” • Freiling notes when she was in college, she could not commit [...]

Publish your expertise to help people

Publish your expertise to help people

Share your expertise effectively to help others. Millionaire expert marketing leader Brendon Burchard notes, “Information marketing is a mystery to a lot of people. “But when you discover there are only 12 kinds of products and programs you can create, it’s not so intimidating and you can finally tackle them to start making money and [...]

Coaching Business Secrets

Coaching Business Secrets

Ali Brown on her free Coaching Business Secrets report: “I’ve included a ton of specific information in this report…from my years of becoming a successful coach, and from the hard lessons I learned on my way to building my multimillion-dollar business. “In the report, you’ll learn: the most POPULAR types of coaching programs that are [...]

Being a Right-Brainer in Business

Being a Right-Brainer in Business

Coach, artist and entrepreneur Jennifer Lee is author of the book The Right-Brain Business Plan, and the founder of Artizen Coaching. She thinks “The left-brain analytical skills that used to get people ahead in the knowledge economy are no longer enough. In the creative economy, right-brain skills like big picture thinking, play, emotional intelligence, and [...]

Commerce and Creativity

Commerce and Creativity

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” – Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was able to develop art-making into a very successful business, but we’ve heard of many great artists who sold hardly anything in their lifetimes. Stories of starving artists seem to have more currency in literature [...]

Gifted adults in the workplace: Nerds or heroes or misfits

Gifted adults in the workplace: Nerds or heroes or misfits

I’ve always been embarrassed by my history on the job. So many failed idealistic attempts to change things. So many years working at jobs where I didn’t fit and wasn’t using my talents. If I’d understood a bit more about giftedness, I might have sought out more appropriate situations. The research of Roland S. Persson, [...]

Janet Attwood on making a living doing what you love

Janet Attwood on making a living doing what you love

Janet Attwood: In our society, people have been taught that you can’t make a living and do what you love to do at the same time. People are waking up to the realization that – to the extent you are living your passion you’re happy and successful. I’m talking about being happy and successful in [...]

You’re smart enough for a PhD. Where’s your career? Or even a job?

You’re smart enough for a PhD. Where’s your career? Or even a job?

When I achieved a Master’s degree about twenty years ago, a PhD (or other doctorate degree like EdD, and PsyD) seemed to be a pretty certain entry into prestigious and durable careers in academia. Not these days, according to a new Los Angeles Times article. Here are some excerpts from Universities are offering doctorates but [...]

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