Jul
28
2010
Born in 1950 and country grown outside of Pittsburgh where I naturally went deep. The space program was a big deal when I was 11 and 12 years old but I can clearly remember it not holding a lick of interest for me.
I was into digging and dirt. I built dams in farmer’s streams. My buddies and I built earthen forts and tried tunneling. One of the best stand-by-me adventures was following a gas line excavation for miles, all day long.
At 12 I took my first job on a farm and my love of gardening grew from there. I worked on the farm for 5 years and loved every bit of it but I especially loved digging up spuds and stacking the wooden crates high in cool, dimly lit storage rooms.
When I was 17 I took a job going deeper into the earth and worked with a backhoe operator installing sewer pipes. I loved carrying those 80 lb. terra cotta sections and jumping in and out of ditches. Can you see the developing theme? Can you see what my life was trying to tell me, even then? 
At 19, on summer break from college, I worked as a United Mine Worker in a deep shaft coal mine.
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May
17
2010
Confidently making a career change comes first from you knowing and believing in yourself. Assured action then kicks in to confirm the right move for you. Use these ten tips to move from confused, doubtful and uncertain to enthusiastic confidence.
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Mar
12
2010
You have powerful points of wisdom within that when expressed could be your authentic edge in the marketplace. That wisdom represents better business ideas than anything your conscious mind realizes.
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Mar
08
2009
There’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
27
2008
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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Jun
30
2008
This is the commencement address you probably won’t hear.
It’s my life’s work to help others find their work life freedom. I believe that work life happiness and work life freedom go hand in hand. In terms of the work choices available to new graduates and their willingness to seize their work life freedom, not a lot has changed in the 35 years since I’ve graduated college.
New graduates with technical skills can generally find higher-paying entry-level employment. But this message is for well-rounded, right–brained, Bachelor of Arts grads – the modern day generalists and renaissance men and women.
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Sep
12
2007
Some are born with such a compelling drive that their true calling surfaces early and they pursue it their entire lives. For others, it may take decades of active pursuit.
We complicate the process way too much because of our fears. It can be far easier than we make it.
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