Give yourself the same career advice you would give your children

Stacy relayed her career dissatisfaction. She went through the motions at work. “I rotate between bored and anxious. When the work is routine, I’m bored. But when something is different – which means there is a problem – I get anxious.” Stacy’s children were teens and beginning to think about college-career issues. As she continued, […]

Career JOY

Let me start by distinguishing “happiness” versus “joyfulness”. Both are wonderful but happy-sad are part of the same continuum and both are viewed as transient: happy in one moment, sad in the next. The ups and downs of external events, such as a victory at work (promotion) followed by a defeat at work (bad review) […]