March 4, 2014 — Recommended Book: “Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win”

A practical and common sense review of why it makes sense to try things, experiment and be open to “failure” in the pursuit of career and related goals.  The authors Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, both Ph.D.s, provide many examples of successful career outcomes that only become possible after first eliminating options through trial and […]

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February 4, 2014 — How “framing” and language impacts our thinking.

Recently I worked with a young person who was planning to work in Europe as a teacher upon his upcoming graduation from college.  He was concerned that by working and traveling abroad he would be “behind” his colleagues and friends who were mostly committed to jobs in the USA.  He talked about the work as […]

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