The Personal Journey

Tonight, I went on an unexpected car ride. I was retrieving my wallet from a restaurant I had been to less than an hour earlier. It was a 15 minute drive. As I re-traced my steps, I began to think about how many other times I had taken this road. It was the same way…

I just had the hard drive on my laptop replaced. After the Geeks on Call guy was finished, he gave me the old hard drive. It’s no bigger than a thin pack of playing cards. When I saw how small it is, I pointed to it and said, "My whole life is right in there."…

“It’s your destiny to do this work. You are the complete package.” My coach wrote this in an email to me today. She is talking about work that I had largely abandoned after I left my last corporate gig (Avaya), over three years ago. I started on this coaching path back in 2003, learning what…

I just finished the book, “Working Identity” by Herminia Ibarra. The author was on the faculty of Harvard Business School for many years and in her research on how young professionals advance or don’t advance in up-or-out firms (e.g., consulting firms), she noticed another population. One that was actively seeking to move to new careers.…

I’ve been wanting to write about getting old. I see the signs that I’m not 25 or 30 anymore and I don’t like it. I look in the mirror and see more white mixed in with my thick dark hair. I notice dark streaks under my eyes—well-hidden with glasses but clearly evident when I’m putting…