When was the last time you heard someone who makes his living in the personal development realm encouraging people to think small? Well sit back and buckle up, because that's exactly where this post is headed! Since 2001, I have made my living helping people figure out how to change their lives for[...]
In part 2 of this post on finding meaning via career passion, we looked at how to create an internal compass, a tool you can use to point the way towards passion in your career. In this post, we're going to look at how to use that tool to sculpt your current job, generate ideas for possible [...]
In my first post on finding meaning through career passion, I looked at a definition of passion that makes creating a career you love more doable and within reach. In this post, I want to take a look at how to identify your "energizers," the basic building blocks for building a career that lights [...]
A career that energizes and engages you can bring a powerful sense of meaning to your life. Sadly, it's only a small percentage of people out there who love their work. Why is that? I'm convinced that part of it is that people have an unnecessarily small picture of what finding passion in their [...]
[Back to How to stop stressing so you can change the world] If you want to show up for the long haul, if you want to be as effective as possible and maximize your potential to make the world a better place, it’s vital to take a conscious approach to staying energized. It’s just common [...]
Would you like to feel more energized? Are you tired of dragging butt, and wish you felt more engaged and alive? In this post, I want to share a straightforward approach to consciously, intentionally shaping your life to feel more energized more of the time. I call it "maximizing the Gain-to-Drain [...]
If someone waved a magic wand and gave you the opportunity to create a career based exclusively on what lights you up, could you do it? What would it look like? What inner source of energy would it tap into? One of the two core continuums of The Aliveness CODE TM runs from drained to [...]
As your focus turns to a new year, it can be a useful time to stop and do a tune-up on your life. Here are ten questions to help you energize, prioritize, and focus as you move into the coming year. To start with, try asking each of these questions in each of the following areas: Work [...]
"I'm feeling a lot better," she said. It was a welcome change. The week before, my client had been feeling stressed and overwhelmed at the state of the world. The feeling was seeping into her days, coloring her experience of life and weighing her down. As we talked about that, I suggested that she [...]
Are you blocking positive change in your life by thinking too big? I don't mean thinking too big in terms of dreams and aspirations. I'm talking about the scale of change you think is necessary to improve your life. Over the last fifteen years of helping people feel more energized and alive, I have[...]