Call to Adventure
My career's next chapter.
Posts tagged: Career Growth
15 posts
The Five-Year Cliff
Nobody tells you that you hit a career cliff every five years - here's how to overcome it.
Beyond Time Management: Balancing Energy and Productivity
Six months into my dream job, I had a nervous breakdown.I just started getting the hang of things, trying to be productive and friendly in an ocean of...
Podcast Episode: Career Growth and Creative Expression
In today's podcast episode, we take a break from The Trillion Dollar Coach and reconnect after a break. We touch on several topics:Adjusting to recording...
Rim Rocked: Overcoming a Stalled Career
One of my favorite shows growing up was Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls - to this day, I still don't know why. A couple of weeks back, while discussing...
The First 10%: Why Intentionality Beats Distraction Every Time
In today’s episode we discuss how intentionality is the key to success. For starters, 10% of 2021 has already passed. As a collective, we constantly...
Accelerate Your Career with the Talent Stack
The idea of a talent stack is that you can combine ordinary skills until you have enough of the right kind to be extraordinary. You don’t have to be the...
Humble. Hungry. Smart.
Exceptional teams change the world. Dysfunctional teams don’t.One of my favorite movie scenes is from Apollo 13 after the crew realized they didn’t...
Sabbatical
I've regularly been posting articles - at least once per month - since 2010. This year, a few things came up that took my attention away from creating...
DiSC
I spent the first several years of my career as a software developer with an incorrect understanding of my default behavioral tendencies. I thought...
Be the Worst
When I was in college, I took a particularly challenging Probability and Statistics class - most of the subject matter was new to me and it took me all of...
Grit
Every summer before going off to college, I worked with my dad at his Powder Coating business. For those who aren't familiar with the trade, a typical day...
Begin With the End in Mind
I remember writing a code generator early on in my career to accomplish a very boring programming assignment. When finished, I was very proud of what I...
Board Games Improve Leadership and Decision Making Skills
In Inc.'s June 2013 issue there is an interesting article about how board games help hone leadership and decision making skills. I was a bit skeptical at...
Work Yourself Out of a Job
Some of the best advice that I've received in my career is that whatever job position you find yourself in, you should always be trying to work yourself...