Tag Archives: Career

Disorder In Life And Back Again.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ~John Milton Where is my white picket fence? Disorder and unexpected change are a part of our lives. There’s a shift occurring… in society, in business, in spirituality… […]

So, Who ARE These Monkeys, And Why Do They Keep Telling Me What To Do?

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt It’s been seven weeks since I decided to find out what […]

Reevaluate Your Work.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue – I repeat myself over and over again with this – to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we’ve got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we’re not always presenting the same thing.~ Patrick Warburton […]

You Gotta Love What You Do.

Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. ~Johnny Carson Who inspired you? Who encouraged you to dream about a […]

Do Your Past Job Skills Point To Something New?

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~Helen Keller Combine Your Skills Into Something New Doug and I learned a lot about our current marketable skills when we reviewed our job history. We discovered that we possess […]

Have You Ever Had A Career Path?

Basically, we’ve grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we’re living in a time where we’re going to […]

What Is Your Work Style?

I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave. ~Joseph Campbell Where do you fit in? Do you fit in? Doug and I decided to focus on our work style. Career-wise, we all know what we’ve done […]

Interview With The Roadblocks

If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ~Michael Jordan We’re all ready to strike […]

Make A Decision And Run!

Looking back and introspection are valuable for discovering why we think and act like we do. Who we are was determined by the input of others and our own thoughts. Paths we traveled in life were chosen using a faulty and incomplete sense of self. Doug and I were going through life on autopilot. we […]

Doug At Work.

Doug is busy working on artsy stuff for our blog…