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The Great Fear of the Twenties: Wasting Our Potential
How often do you think about the potential of wasting your potential? Once a year? Once a month? Once a day? Once an hour? If you’re anything like I was, that last choice rings the buzzer. If it comes...
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You Don’t Want Grad School. You Want Your Childhood Autumn Back.
When you think of autumn, what springs to mind? Crisp evenings? Shortening days? Earthy scents? Halloween pranks? photo credit: Elizabeth/Table4Five Oh come on, you’re holding back. Just try to...
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Work and Career Are Not Synonyms (And Only One Matters)
How much time have you spent trying to find your career? How much time have you spent trying to find your work? If you think I’m asking the same question twice, think again. Not only should these...
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Are You Getting Frustrated Productively?
photo credit: aphasiafilms What do you do when you’re frustrated? Not sure? Then consider what you’d do in the following situation: Last week you had an interview for your dream job. I’m talking, the...
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When it comes to career, do you feel like you simply have too many options? Did you believe so fully in the “you can do anything” mantra of childhood that you don’t know how to let it go? Can you think...
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Want Well-Being? Fix These Two Aspects of Your Career
One of my former students recently stopped by for a chat. An intelligent, eager woman in her mid-20s, she’s moved beyond the wide-eyed optimism typically worn by new graduates. Too far beyond it....
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Gen Y is in Charge Of its Own Destiny
This guest post is part of our Millennial Perspectives series. I met Rene through her blog Habits of Thought way back when my blog was called Career Avoidance 101. She has been a loyal and supportive...
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Staying Put Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Settling”
I never thought I’d say this: Contractual obligations are the best things that ever happened to my work life. From teaching college, to writing textbooks and supplements, to taking on odd jobs around...
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Why I Don’t Believe In “Fake It ‘Til You Make it”
This guest post by Mark-Anthony Smith of Entitled Millennial is part of our Millennial Perspectives series. Thrilled to have Mark on board today! (Psst – he’s a freshly-minted master’s recipient...
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Quit the Comparisons
See if you recognize yourself in this story: It’s a sun-drenched day. My two-year-old daughter is swinging before me on our town playground. She whizzes through the air for tens of minutes, the wind...
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Why Are You Listening to These People?
I’ve finally identified the common theme running through the lives of my career-conflicted students and coaching clients: They listen to the wrong people. Who are these “wrong advice”-givers? Anyone...
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How To Make Your Childhood – and Future – Self Very Happy
Here’s my big admission: I’m obsessed with Google calendar. Obsessed. It’s never not open on my computer. Sometimes I stare at my week’s schedule in wonder. All too often I’m tempted to enter “event”...
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Is Millennial Magnificence Misinterpreted as Mediocrity?
So excited to share today’s guest post in the Millennial Perspectives series, written by the terrific Tru Pettigrew of Tru Access. There are many stereotypes in the marketplace about millennials. We’ve...
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Make a Career Change – Without Quitting
Wish you could say “take this job and shove it”…but can’t? You don’t have to. It’s possible make a career change without quitting. Or, at the very least, make your job feel less misery-inducing....
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7 Habits of Awesome Millennials: A Guide to Understanding Gen Y
Today’s guest post in the Millennial Perspectives series comes to us from Debashish Das of Quit, Be Free. I had the good fortune of being placed in a triad with Debashish during Jenny Blake‘s Build...
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The Most Important Professional Decision You Need to Make Is Personal
There you are, making decisions about what’ll bring you a long, deeply fulfilling, I-made-a-difference-in-this-world-goshdarnit sort of career. You think you should be considering your interests, your...
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Attention Stressed Millennials: Don’t Forget to be Happy
Please give a warm welcome to today’s contributor to the Millennial Perspectives series, Lauren from Life on a Branch. She’s been a long-time supporter of my writing, for which I’m grateful, and I...
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The Best Time to Show Gratitude is In Our 20s and 30s
What if I told you we have a super power in our 20s and early 30s? What if you learned that this power is now at its peak and will recede with each passing decade? What if you discovered that because...
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What is “Meaningful Work”?
I can’t count how many 20somethings have said one of the following to me: “I wish I knew what my purpose is.” “I don’t know what I want to do, but I want a fulfilling job.” “I want my work to be...
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Millennials are Revising the American Dream
Today’s post in the Millennial Perspectives Series comes to us from Hailey Hirst of Go Forth, Explorer. Enjoy! The “American Dream” is dead. Okay, maybe not, but it seems like that’s what a lot of...
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