Archive for the 'Career Coaching' Category

Career Coaching articles on how to coach yourself in making the right career decisions.


Jul 29 2009

Fear Cripples Authenticity

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 1,284 views

iStock_000007626121XSmall Fear dilutes authenticity and once diluted it doesn’t hold enough power to sustain itself. Our dreams then become like kites without wind.

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May 11 2009

Your Best Career Is Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 1,509 views

colorful fireworks show silhouettes Is it inauthentic to do the things that you don’t like to do? Just because a career choice is challenging does that automatically mean you’ve chosen the wrong career?

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Mar 29 2009

Killing What Scares You

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 5,531 views

istock_000003792360xsmallDon’t kill what scares you. Embrace it!

What scares you the most is your raw, untamed authenticity.

What scares the hell right out of you is the crazy brilliance that you know you really are.

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Oct 27 2008

Clarity Empowers Progress

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 1,213 views

When we are crystal clear about where we are and where we want to be, we create less stress and more often hit targeted objectives. It’s darn hard to find our true calling when we aren’t willing to be clear and specific about how we want our life’s work to be.

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Sep 14 2008

Finding Your Business Sweet Spot

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 846 views

Vocation is where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need. Frederich BuechnerSince each of us has unique desires, values and strengths it follows that each of us also has a unique business in us that we could build better than anyone else. Discovering that business and then developing the confidence to launch it, is what stops most folks from enjoying the fulfillment, freedom and prosperity that was meant to be theirs. The absolute sweet spot of your business is where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.

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Feb 13 2008

You Are WHO You Hang With and WHAT Hangs Around You

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 744 views

Fork in the roadIt’s much easier to change our environments than it is to change our behavior. The first step to improving our environments is be aware of their existence and how they influence us.

One of the nine ingredients of finding delightful work is: Discover and create environments to thrive within. Read this post to see all nine ingredients. Like all the ingredients, our environments are constantly influencing our pursuit of delightful work; sometimes apparently and sometimes without our knowledge.

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Jan 08 2008

Four Ways to Awaken Your Hidden Advantage

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 576 views

Leading with your strengths gives you a natural, positional advantage that can make your work life easier, your business more productive and far more fulfilling.

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Sep 18 2007

Who Are You?

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 789 views

Good morning friends. I think it’s high time that I explain exactly whom I intend to serve with this blog. It starts with my mission: to increase the number of folks on the planet in active pursuit of their work life happiness and freedom.

But who among you has the highest probability of being helped by working with me? Those who have the following characteristics have a higher probability of getting desired results with my guidance. This post is a profile of those clients who have had the most success working with me in my ten years of life and career coaching.

You are curious, a life-long learner who is willing to look within and self-examine – even when you don’t like what you see.

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