Tag Archive 'career choices'

Jan 18 2010

Live Big or Die Small

Published by Tom Volkar under True Callings | Email This Post Email This Post | 757 views

No matter who you are or what you do for a living there is an excellent chance that you’re playing too small.

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Aug 24 2009

Ripening Bliss

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Discovery | Email This Post Email This Post | 1,132 views

tomshawiianphoto This is a pretty much off-the-cuff report on what’s been going on with me in the last week. I’ve identified a very big objective and I’m working through a gestation period to allow my ideas to fully form. Realizations are coming rapid fire and my certainty and confidence are growing daily.

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Mar 08 2009

How To Get the Best Career Advice

Published by Tom Volkar under Career Guidance | Email This Post Email This Post | 1,510 views

istock_000007706240xsmallThere’s a source of the best career advice available to you but you don’t trust it. You don’t trust this outstanding career advice because it doesn’t seem like a valuable, little know secret. Will you trust a career coach, with 10 years of career coaching experience, if I tell you the secret?


You are the source of your own best career advice.

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Oct 16 2008

Got It?

Published by Tom Volkar under Life Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 837 views

We ask this question to check for understanding. We can also gain insight by questioning ourselves. When grasping new knowledge, it’s useful to both discover what we are newly aware of and then to express that realization.

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Sep 24 2008

How to Beat the Work Life Blues

Published by Tom Volkar under Life Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 1,306 views

Working in a job you hate kills your spirit and drains your energy. But you’ll never escape the hell you’re in by bitching and moaning about it.

What we focus on, expands. What we give our attention to; we get more of. What we look at, whether it is pleasing or upsetting, becomes our focus point of expansion. When considering a career transition, everything we resist persists – because we are giving it our attention. It doesn’t matter if your boss is stealing all your good ideas; by complaining about it, you are keeping yourself locked in the same prison.

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Apr 16 2008

Massive Inspired Action – a Recipe for Success

Published by Tom Volkar under Life Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 2,001 views

BullAs we seize our work life freedom, it’s often necessary to achieve measurable progress so that our confidence catches up to our intentions. The most effective tool to jump start momentum and insure success is massive inspired action – because it increases the probability of success.

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Apr 03 2008

Hard Truths, Whole Truths and Nothing But the Truth? Bull!

Published by Tom Volkar under Life Coaching | Email This Post Email This Post | 640 views

It’s all bull. We make it all up. (Image by mrchriscornwell on Flickr, via Creative Commons license) Bull
What a wonderful adventure self-employment is. I’m laughing at myself today and I want to share that laugh with you. What’s cracking me up? Just that I had a truth to tell, and hemmed and hawed about telling that truth – which is soooo not who I am. Temporarily, I forgot an essential truth of life.

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