Details, Details
Piecing together your life’s work Argh! Cringe. That is my first response to the word “details.” When I hear sayings like, “The Love is in the details”, the first thing I want to do is hire someone to take care of them …. Whatever they are! Yet when it comes to piecing together the elements […]
Career Uncertainty (Certainty) in Today’s Climate
Disclaimer: This is not a political article. It is an article of hope and clarity. How many times have you heard stories about folks who thrive during the darkest times in our history – 2008 economic crash perhaps comes to mind. There were companies and individuals who lost their shirts. Then there were individuals and […]
How to Love Your Means-to-an-End Job
In my twenties I worked for a large corporation in San Francisco as a legal secretary. Imagine, if you will, an off-the-chart, inattentive ADDer doing this job in the first place. This is a job that requires organizational skills, minimal ego, ability to take direction with a smile, learn new processes and technology, whether I […]
Why I Love to Lose A Client
Before you read this, you might be wondering what the heck I mean by why I love losing clients. There is a caveat – and a big one. Let me explain. There are certain kinds of clients that I love to work with – those that are unconditionally Ready to receive a specific type of […]
You Are Not the Boss of Me … or Are You?
How to Shift the ‘Attitude” and Have More Fun In Your Job In my twenties I worked for a big corporation as a legal secretary. Now imagine an off-the-chart ADDer doing this job in the first place. After being shuffled around the legal department to various attorneys who the company thought I could work with, […]
Life/Work Planning – Revisited or How the Pieces of My Life Fit Together to Create An Awesome Career
When I first trained with Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute, back in 1991, I was introduced to the concept of Life/Work Planning. I put the term to rest many years ago. Now I want to pull it back out of my mind closet, and talk about the piece that has […]
Effortless Workplace Management with ADHD
Effortless Workplace Management with ADHD Traditional office workplace environments can pose quite the challenge for those of us who deal with ADHD. There’s a ton of stimuli being thrown at you at any given time, and it’s your responsibility to prioritize and maximize your workload efficiency. Sounds like a nightmare for someone who has problems […]
Excel In Career and Life with ADHD
A Few Career Fields of Fascination that Can Be Magical To Us Some of our peers in the workplace may view ADD/ADHD as a curse, placing us at a disadvantage because we may not always methodically perform otherwise menial tasks. Depending on the career path, though, some may say the opposite: that ADHD can be […]
The Focus Blueprint – What’s Yours?
What is really important to Focus on these days? Why is Focus critical to Our Purpose and Our Livelihoods? Are we chasing so many shiny objects that we accomplish nothing or very little in the way of navigating new pathways, frontiers and connections that lead us to joyful, happy work that makes a real difference […]
Career Coaching for ADHDers v. Traditional Career Coaching
Why ADHD-Specific Career Coaching Is Vital While the value of career coaching is underestimated in our society, the need for it is vital to anyone who is not clearly focused on a direction that resonates with the heart. That would be something like 70-80% of the world’s population, according to any statistic on the working population unhappy […]