Sunday Night Again… Are You Anxious Or Excited About Work On Monday? 

I’ve written about the Sunday night blues before. I used to get a feeling of anxiety that built into dread in between late afternoon and late Sunday before bed thinking about going to work. Fortunately, this was almost 20 years ago. I bring this up to assure you that I know… I really know… what […]

Why we help new entrepreneurs succeed

Years ago when I first started The Learning Consultants, a much older entrepreneur told me to get a partner.  I wondered if he was going to follow with conventional reasons: “to spread the risk”; “to have someone with different skills”; “to have additional stakeholders who care as much as you do” etc. But he said […]

What process have to put in place to take control of your career?

“I sometimes look at online job sites.”“I talked to a friend of mine about his business.”“I thought about going back to school but I didn’t know for what.” I do my very best to be understanding. But I want to shake some of my career counseling clients. Many had just finished telling me that they […]

Career Mindset Shift For those over 40 (or 50), 

When I started Career Counseling Connecticut, I thought that most of my clients would be twentysomethings. That’s not the case. My career counseling clients are pretty evenly distributed among twenty, thirty, and fortysomethings.  Fiftysomethings are also not that far behind. I soon realized why. The work world has shifted for everyone.  Those in their twenties are […]

Jobs Are Coming Back… Maybe 

Jobs are coming back according to recent data.  The article paints a very accurate picture of the cautions surrounding good facts. I am an optimist by nature and by philosophical training.  Yet, I can’t help but realize the structures of the new economy will be brilliant for some, challenging for many, and brutal for a bigger […]

Inspire yourself for career change

Abraham Maslow, the great psychologist of self-actualization fame, claimed that the story of the human race is the story of people selling themselves short. “People have a tendency to settle for far less from life than they are truly capable of. Many people are spinning their wheels in careers where they should be moving rapidly […]