So many of us are frustrated by not getting what we want. We feel angry or disappointed that we have a vision of something that we want to have, be, or achieve but we’re somehow unable to manifest it into being. I think this feeling is a fundamental frustration for all of us- one of […]

Swarthmore Professor Timothy Burke, of Easily Distracted blog, has authored a couple of valuable posts for students. While Professor Burke most often posts about his area of expertise, Modern African History, he’s written some very insightful pieces for prospective and current College Students.

First is Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay . Professor Burke navigates […]

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, you’ve worked to identify a sense of purpose. Your next step is to use this life purpose statement to help find work that you love. How do you do that?
If you followed the previous exercises to the letter, you should have spent at least 7 days […]

In Part 1 of the Finding Work You Love series, you wrote down 10 or so of your most important life experiences and searched for some golden threads amongst them. Did you find some important themes? Did any new ideas come about? Hopefully, some of the words will stand out as important and invigorating […]

In my new series of posts, “Finding Work that You Love,”  I hope to share a process of finding a career that you really love.  Further, I’d like to stimulate thoughts and discussion around the way we express our true values and desires in our actions.  I believe this process is the same for reaching any goal or result […]

This year is a really big year for me. I’m beginning my second year as a full-time coach and am really looking forward to helping as many people as possible. So, without further ado, here are my resolutions:
Act with Compassion and Integrity
I will use objective, compassionate support with all of my clients. I will trust […]

Over the holidays, I came across a very insightful post on the goalsguy.com site. Titled ‘The Ten Commandments of Goal-Setting,’ the post is a perfect accompaniment to your New Year’s Resolutions. Goals Guy nails the most important point in his first commandment, ‘Thou Shall Be Decisive.’
Success is a choice. You must decide what you want, […]

In this week’s Carnival of the Vanities , Retire at 30 posted a very controversial piece about entitlement, work, delayed gratification, and today’s young adults.
Everybody would like $1 Million tomorrow, but how many people look at the world around them and ask what problems they could fix to create $1 Million in value? […]

Rosa Say is a wonderful Coach and Writer from Hawaii.  Her blog, Managing with Aloha, is written for Managers and Executives but often has wisdom that applies to all of us.  She’s written a wonderful post, My Aloha Virtue List, which is filled with a host of virtues she’s striving for during the month of […]

Purpose Why is what I’m working on important? What is the reason that I’ve chosen or been assigned this task? How does it fit into my larger sense of purpose? If it doesn’t fit, what can I change to make it purposeful?

Planning What are my general goals for my studies? What am I committed to […]