If you want to advance your career, you need a plan and to develop some daily habits to help you execute your plan. Join this episode as Jenn first pays tribute to the late great Canadian Gord Downie, and then shares 9 things you can do to advance your career….all during a wind storm!

There are lots of really good reasons why resigning from a job in a professional and graceful way is a good idea. You maintain your reputation, your dignity and your relationship. Find out what to do before, during and after resigning in this podcast episode…and find out also who Garth Vader is and why he’s SO darned cute!

You might say, it depends on your career-choice, and what choices you make in your life. Join Jenn and guest Jurgen Schmechel, a relationship coach with loads of corporate experience, as we talk about how to do both well.

Goal-setting is something I think everyone should do, and surprisingly, lots of people actually don’t. (I’m not talking about New Year’s resolution-style either…I mean goals of every kind for all sorts of areas of your life.) When you do get around to actually setting a goal..what happens next? Often, the goals are “derailed” by our own mistakes.

In this episode, I walk you through 7 mistakes that commonly appear when you decide to do something…when you set a goal, whether it’s a career goal, a personal goal, a dietary or financial goal…a relationship goal…whatever it is…these are some of the mistakes that get made that end up derailing the goal so it doesn’t happen…which is sad!

Join me to go through them and then see how you can avoid or counteract making them in the first place.

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Overwhelm is that feeling you have when you just want to get off the spinning world for a while…when there is too much to do and you don’t want to do any of it…when it’s too much that it paralyzes you and you spend time procrastinating because there is too much to do that you don’t know where to start.

Have you ever experienced this?

You can experience overwhelm when your work life and your home life are too full, when you feel the pressure to perform or when you are a perfectionist and things are not going perfectly…when you set your own super high expectations and then have trouble living up to them…when you are a control freak (and lots of us are) and you feel like you are losing control…when you have to learn a TON of new stuff and you feel like your brain is full and you can’t retain one more tidbit of information or your brain will explode…when you are running out of energy for things that require energy, when you are full of worry and anxiety…when you are fed up.

Any or all of these things can be signs of overwhelm and it’s very, very common. Life is stressful sometimes, and even the most together person…or rather the person who appears to be the most together on the outside…can be suffering from overwhelm.

Join me in this podcast where I walk you through an exercise that will overcome your overwhelm and turn it into an organized plan of action. Get from overwhelm to organized FAST. Grab some sticky notes and a pen, clear a space on the table, give yourself a block of time to spend with me, and I will get you from overwhelmed to organized in short order.

What is Laser Focus?

I’m not sure when this term first came into my awareness…but it’s been around for a while now, for about 5 years or so anyway, and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me explain:
the idea behind the term “laser focus”  is that you focus in on something with the same intensity as how a laser points its beam at one small point and how all its energy is aimed at that one point and nowhere else. That’s what laser focus means.

How can it be helpful?

There are ways in which it is not helpful. Being laser-focused doesn’t mean to the point of ignoring other important things in life, like your health or your family and friends. That would not be cool. What it does mean is that by finding your laser focus, I am talking about how to focus on the task at hand or the goal in front of you IN THE MOMENT…and not get sucked into that rabbit hole of distraction, because when that happens, you become unproductive. You waste time, and you can become even more stressed later when you realize how much time you’ve wasted or how you haven’t accomplished what you first set out to do. This can lead to feelings of dissatisfaction, to negative self-talk, stress and regret.

“Why didn’t I just get it done when I had the chance?”

“Why can’t I use my time wisely?”

“I wanted to get so much done today and I didn’t. I’m so disappointed.”

Sound familiar?

And then sometimes, there is guilt. Guilt is a wicked ghost, my friends.

5 Strategies to Help You Find Your Laser Focus

In this episode I share 5 strategies you can use to get you to your goal fast. Tune in to hear more about these 5 strategies:

1. Make a conscious decision to get focused.
2. Purposely ignore distractions.
3. Schedule it.
4. Do it.
5. Once you’ve done whatever your one task or action step is, celebrate!

Thanks so much for tuning in and for sharing this show with your friends, family and colleagues! If you’d like help with 5 concrete action steps to help  move you closer to a new job or career, click here! 

It’s free and fun, too.

Until next time,

~ Jenn

Make the Most of Your Every Day.

Some days just fly by…or zoom by…or crash by, and when asked, “did you have a good day?”, I don’t know how to respond. Has this happened to you?

Other days are magnificent. Not in a “that was the most awesome, life-changing experience” kinda way, but in the way that I end them feeling satisfied, accomplished, and full of gratitude for how it went.

I want more of those.

You probably do too. In this podcast episode, I offer 8 steps to help you make the most of your day. Of course, these will only work if you actually DO THEM…so it might be best to start with one or two, and work your way up to doing all 8.

These are not earth-shattering…

but they are effective.

Try them out. Let me know how you do.

If you apply these steps, you too will be able to make the most of every day.

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In this SHORT episode, I give you eleven signs that might mean you would be wise to start looking for a new job. These 11 signs are not the only ones, but they are good indicators that all is not well and that you might want to take some time to reflect on what is going on.