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To see
how our career help can start in the first,
free coaching consultation, take a look at a few success stories, or some
recent breakthrough
coaching
conversations. We'll see if your current situation
is beyond salvage or if it can be fixed, and if it
can't, we'll work with you on everything from
career
change advice to guidance into a new career. Whatever
the case, coaching is
the single best vehicle for developing your career --
and encouraging a happier and more balanced lifestyle.
TREADMILL
Do
you often feel the need to apologize for letting down
your friends and family? Are you unable to settle on
whether to slow down at work or to reach higher for
goals you've long had in mind? Are you frustrated
because no matter how much time you invest in career
management, no matter how hard you work, you still can't
get to the top? Do you go full-bore at work and then
collapse at the end of the day? Do you have a hard time
sitting still on weekends, or even during a weekday
lunch?
You
probably think you're a high performer. More likely, you're an addict. Some might call you an adrenaline
junkie, but even that may be a euphemism, as if all you
enjoy is the good high of life in the fast lane, a job
well done. It's more likely that
you're addicted to work because it fills an emptiness in
your real life. Here's one place where
career coaching
really boils down to life
coaching.
What
are You Running From?
If
you're running really hard, the question you need to ask
yourself is, What are you running from? A career
counselor won't ask you; we will.
Because, as one
well-known career help coach puts it, you'll need to "GET A LIFE! A real life. If you're running on a never-ending
treadmill, you are not living a life; you're running a
marathon, and you will burn out." It's not healthy, it's
not sustainable, it's not even enjoyable. Why do you do
it? You think you want to. You think you have no choice. But as with any such unhealthy lifestyle (and unhealthy
motivations), you've set a limit on your career success. Exceptions whom you may know aside, unhappy people don't
really succeed, or not for long.
If you really
still want to get up that career ladder, you need to
step back from it and get a clearer view of the entire
surroundings. You need to be a visionary, and not an
overworked lunatic. You need peace, a calm and creative
mind, passion, vision. We'll help you work smarter, not
harder.
If you are an overachiever, your success
contains in it the seeds of your demise: you define
yourself by your work. You unhelpfully measure your inherent value
by what you do. How unhappy. We can give you all kinds
of advice on how to continue on that road. But we'll be
much more successful in
personally coaching you if you're willing to admit that you
are far more than what you do, and that you are valuable
independent of your work, and then if you are willing to
try on new ideas and new things.
You may need to
start your self-administered career help by simplifying your life
-- clearing the slate,
cleaning out the closet, etc. Get rid of all the drags
on your mental space, your inner Feng Shui.
There
are several areas our clients typically work on in order
to clear their heads and hearts, which then allows them
to see and feel much, much more clearly:
1.
Simplifying your life
2.
Eliminating or re-framing your adrenaline
triggers -- gossip, politics, caffeine, deadlines,
phone interruptions, home or office melodramas, needing
the rush of the big win (find other sources of
satisfaction too, and other ways to celebrate)
3.
Recommitting to a fitness regimen (reducing
stress, feeling more energy, balancing and calming body
and mind). See
Career Life Coach:
Rev Up Your Energy Level.
4.
Improving relationships with bosses and
subordinates, especially those whom you resent, feel
competitive with, or deal with rarely (what, you wanted
miracles and no work?) -- all in order to reduce your
resentments and enhance your visibility and
effectiveness -- and even lead to raises and promotions.
Learn about
relationship coaching.
a. Valuing others and including them in your
success -- which will in turn lead to your own
greater success (just have to get past that ego, like
all great leaders) -- and not just for what they can do
for you (I know, I know, you think you don't do this).
But:
if you define yourself by what you
do
you measure others on that yardstick too
5.
Ceasing your attachment to having problems (the
hero complex, whatever) or letting others bring them to
you -- and thus ceasing your identification with what you
do, rather than who you are
Related Pages for Career Help:
Life Coaching
Career Coach
Attorney Coaching
Career Change Coach
Individual Coaching - Career Resources
Recommended Books: Career Resources
Free Career Test
Career Aptitude Test?
Skills Testing, Schmills Testing!
Career Coaches
Washington DC
Career Coach
Career Development --
Stuck in Mid-Career?
Life and Career Coach
Career Coaching: 14 Early
Warning Signs of Career Trouble
Assessment Tools
For more career help, you might also try
out the Baggage Obliterator exercise for career
development.
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