Uncertainty
Career Planning – Lean Into the Unknown
Some of the most challenging parts of career planning involve facing uncertainties and unknowns. Many of these simply involve things we do not know yet like which organizations will be hiring, what will they want to know about us and which of our skills and experiences we should highlight in our applications and inquiries. However,…
Your Post Pandemic Life Direction Choices: Happiness, Meaningfulness, or Experiential Richness (or some of each)?
There is a powerful sense (if you pause quietly and look for it) that we are all very close to getting a “normal life” restart opportunity. While we will have to wait a bit for the Delta variant to rage, we will be able to get back to things again soon. We could simply breathe…
Smartphones, Social Media and Loneliness
What comes to mind when you read or hear a statement that starts with the words “young people these days….”? There has been a lot of press over the research finding that young people (born around 1995) are expressing and experiencing significantly higher levels of stress, anxiety and loneliness even when compared to the generation…
Understanding Anxiety: Coping with Terror Threat
As you explore yourself you will also be exploring the world, which will result in increased exposure to outside events, good and bad. Some of these events will be terror events. It is to be expected that knowledge of the occurrence of these events, even if they occur at a great distance, will create additional…
When You Are Identity Building the Right Steps to Take Could Be Really Small Steps: Meet Seth Godin
You can work on building your identity out into many, many areas but one of the biggest areas involves figuring out your education, training, and career pathways. Thinking about this work can be scary because it matters so much… you are going to invest a lot of time, energy, money, and other types of capital…