Over the next few weeks, I’ll be going through my process of reflection to close out the year. The way I like to reflect is through journaling. By writing out my thoughts on what has transpired over the previous 12 months, I feel more connected with my results, and the areas that I’d like to […]
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The last step in the career planning process is to lay out your roadmap. (If you haven’t already, please do the exercises in Step 1 and Step 2 before starting this last piece!) How are you going to get to that huge end goal that you have for yourself? This step takes some work! Some
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The next step in creating your career plan is to put down on paper what your big life goal is. Grab your journal and let’s get started! What is the huuuuuuge life goal that you have for yourself? Nothing is too big for this step. Want to be CEO of a Fortune 500 Company? Awesome,
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Another tool in the emotional adulthood in our careers toolbox is figuring out where you want to go next in your career. A lot of the women that I work with tell me that they don’t know what they have to do to get to the next step in their career, and more often than
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As discussed last week, I’d like to talk about some skills and strategies for your career and life that will set the foundation for a successful 2019! The first of these skills that I’d like to talk about is planning. I’m going to share some of the tips and strategies that I use for laying
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Let’s talk about emotional adulthood. This concept was introduced to me by Brooke Castillo, and it has so many applications across all aspects of our lives. Emotional adulthood, in general terms, means that we take complete responsibility for all of our feelings. We have control over how we feel. How empowering is that!? Those feelings
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“Well that didn’t go so well.” “This isn’t what I wanted.” “You’re just so…unapproachable.” How often have you heard this kind of criticism? As working women, we’re statistically proven to be given less concrete, actionable feedback than our male counterparts. So what do we do when we get this kind of feedback? How is the
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This week I want to talk about success mindset. I know we’re all ambitious, and we have big goals laid out for ourselves. But sometimes, we get in our own way! I know that I can get wrapped up in my own thinking and self-sabotage my way to not getting to my desired end point.
Just a few short years ago, I used to joke around that being an engineer stole a little piece of my soul. I felt that it made me hard, and slightly uncaring. That analytical piece of my mind was always on the go, and I rarely stopped what I was doing to really feel my
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In one of my favorite quotes from Tim Ferris, he says “A person’s success in life can be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have”. And oh how true I have found this to be! Early on in my career, I would try and avoid uncomfortable conversations. I
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