Upgrade Your Career Game During Uncertain Times with These Essential Tools

Upgrade Your Career Game During Uncertain Times with These Essential Tools

Layoffs.  Inflation.  Economic instability.  It can seem like change and uncertainty is all around us.  As unnerving as this can be, we have a choice.  We can accept uncertainty as a part of life and persist through it, or we can let it paralyze us with fear.  “The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” [...]

How Countless Leaders Achieve Mammoth Success with Mentors and How You Can Too

How Countless Leaders Achieve Mammoth Success with Mentors and How You Can Too

Mentors are one of the biggest accelerators to success.  So much so that Donald Perkins, Chairman and CEO of the Jewel Companies said, “Everyone who succeeds has had a mentor or mentors.”  While I’m sure there are some that succeed without mentors, there is no denying that having a mentor can provide a huge boost [...]

Manage Work-Life Balance Like A Boss

Manage Work-Life Balance Like A Boss

The Mindset Shift One of the top questions I get asked is, “How do you manage work-life balance?”  It comes up in 1:1s, when I’m speaking, coaching sessions, and in everyday conversations.  There’s good reason, this is a big challenge for those of us in technology.  Tech companies are known for their demanding cultures, a [...]

How To Increase Levels Of Achievement With A Growth Mindset

How To Increase Levels Of Achievement With A Growth Mindset

Two kids take a math test.  Both get a “C.”  One kid looks at his grade and thinks, “I’m just not good at math.  I don’t know why I bother studying.” The other looks at her grade and thinks, “I should have studied more.  Next time I’ll study harder and do better.”  Both have the [...]

5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Career Without Being in The Office

5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Career Without Being in The Office

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since many of us began working from home full-time.  Over the last 12 months we’ve seen a rapid change in how and where we work.  We’ve moved from offices to working on kitchen tables.  To setting up sit-stand desks, webcams, microphones, and backgrounds for video calls.  Some [...]

Jeff Bezos On The Roots To Amazon’s Success

Jeff Bezos On The Roots To Amazon’s Success

Jeff Bezos rocked the world when he announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Amazon.  Jeff founded the company in 1994 as a small online bookstore.  In 27 years he turned Amazon into an unrivaled tech powerhouse selling over 350 million products and growing it to a trillion-dollar business. In Bezos’ email announcing [...]

The Secret to Setting Goals For Massive Success

The Secret to Setting Goals For Massive Success

Less than 10% of people achieve their goals.  They lose focus, they become overwhelmed, they find excuses, and they give up.  For the longest time the way I set goals was completely wrong.  I had too many, they were ambiguous, they were too big, and they were incomplete leaving huge holes in my life. So [...]

7 Ways to Practice Gratitude to Quickly Improve Your Mood and Life

7 Ways to Practice Gratitude to Quickly Improve Your Mood and Life

Why is it that a person who can seemingly have everything be miserable, while another who has very little be happy?  We all know someone who has all that it would take to be happy and yet are not.  The friend who has so much, but constantly complains.  The manager who is never satisfied no [...]