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Career Guidance – Staff Motivation

May 18, 2012 in Career & Business with 2 Comments

Career Guidance You Don’t Want To Use — How To Motivate Your Staff!

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for career guidance that isn’t helpful, but it sure is funny.

This week’s one-minute video is both hilarious and painful. Enjoy!

If you are truly seeking career guidance, we’d love to serve you. Check out Live It Forward Coaching and our Home Study Course. Each is designed to help you discover your Vocational Calling and equip you to strategically pursue the work and life that you love!

Also, be sure to check out past Career Guidance You Don’t Want To Use posts. Here are two of my favorites!

 

Go Ahead, Do What You Want To Do!

May 4, 2012 in Career & Business with 2 Comments

Career Guidance You Don’t Want To Use — Actually…This Time You Do!

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for career guidance that usually isn’t too helpful or insightful, but it sure is funny.

This week our short video actually contains a golden nugget of truth: your career is your thing, so make sure you do what you really want to do for work. 

Now that’s some outstanding advice!

If you are truly seeking career guidance, we’d love to serve you. Check out Live It Forward Coaching and our Home Study Course. Each is designed to help you discover your Vocational Calling and equip you to strategically pursue the work and life that you love!

Also, be sure to check out past Career Guidance You Don’t Want To Use posts. Here are four of my favorites!

 

3 Entrepreneurial Roadblocks

May 3, 2012 in Career & Business with 6 Comments

Keys for Success for Entrepreneurs — 3 Roadblocks to Avoid!

Keys to Success for Entrepreneurs As most of you know, Live It Forward LLC provides several services. First, I do a lot of keynote and seminar speaking, primarily in the youth and educators market. Even though these services are listed on a different website, they are technically part of my Live It Forward business. Second, we host a lot of teleseminars and live conferences like the Speak It Forward Boot Camp. Third, one of the primary services we provide is individual life and career coaching. Every few months, I work with 3-4 clients helping them discover their vocational calling, map out their life plan, and create a strategic, step-by-step implementation plan for making the move to the life and work they love.

Interestingly, during the past few years the number of clients that choose to pursue the entrepreneurial road continues to grow significantly. What’s more, every single one of these clients is hungry to discover the keys to success for entrepreneurs.

If you fall into this crowd, CONGRATS!!!! The entrepreneurial path is exciting, freeing, and an absolute blast! Additionally, if you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you know I’m passionate about being an entrepreneur myself, and that I’ve written quite a bit about the keys to success for entrepreneurs in past blogs like this one.

But don’t kid yourself, the entrepreneurial road is not only challenging, it can also be frustrating and downright scary. Therefore, if you are considering jumping onto the entrepreneurial path, here are 3 roadblocks you definitely want to avoid. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that one of the keys to success for entrepreneurs is avoiding each of these major roadblocks.

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Career Guidance – Really?

April 27, 2012 in Career & Business with 6 Comments

Career Guidance? I Don’t Think So!

Yup, it’s Friday, and that means it’s time for career guidance that is neither helpful or insightful, but it’s bound to put a smile on your face. Enjoy!

 

Stay The Course – Key to Success

April 25, 2012 in Career & Business with 6 Comments

Stay The Course - Key To Success

Key To Success — Stick-to-it-tive-ness

I received an email a few days ago from a career coaching client who made it to the final cut for a job she really wanted only to find out that the company decided to pick the other person instead. Although her attitude was great (she wrote: “I gave everything I could and have no regrets”), I could tell she was really disappointed, and rightfully so.

I sent her an email in response, and while I won’t share all I wrote to her with you, here is one key to success that I hope will both challenge and encourage you along your journey as well:

I’m proud of you! You WILL make it simply because you are continuing to “live it forward.” I know it’s hard in the midst of this experience, but once that break comes your way, you’ll realize that your stick-to-it-tive-ness has been one of your greatest advantages because 99 percent of the people out there don’t stay the course.

In another email I wrote:

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