Fuel Your Inner Drive
How do you apply your skills and expertise? What support do you seek at work? At home? Financially?
We all would like some further explicit direction on when it is time to move on to new challenges at work. At least I would. As I was lamenting to one of my dear friends who also happens to be a life and career coach a month or so ago, I was sharing with her [...]
How do you maintain your femininity wearing a suit? I choose to feel like a woman, dress like a woman, act like a woman; I will get the job done being a strong, empowered, woman in or out of a suit. We might be working in a man’s world, but I am just fine showing [...]
For this week’s blog, I decided to scan the Huffington Post to check out the buzz in their Women / Career & Money section. I figured something there would grab my attention, and I wasn’t disappointed. Two prominently featured stories were Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It and When Women Feel Like Frauds They Fuel [...]
As with many folks, the downturn in the economy has hit my home. Long gone are the conversations of growing old together, sitting on the porch in our rocking chairs, smiling at the grandchildren! Oh wait….that was an AARP commercial! At the very least, I thought there would be time after my son graduated from [...]
Along with carrying away a diploma from college, the average college graduate carries away about $25,000 in debt, according to the New York Times. Our deteriorating economy is currently facing the largest student loan debt it has ever seen. To fuel the fire 11.2% of college graduates are unemployed. With upsetting statistics, how will this [...]
It is the beginning of April and I haven’t finished my taxes. Agh. What excuse should I use? The dog ate my taxes I don’t think the IRS would buy that one. But, I did have a co-worker tell me to file an extension because then I could put it off for even longer. No [...]
Recently, I catch myself thinking about all the money I’ve spent in the last ten years. I look at the Under Armour running capris that I have not one, but three pairs of. I pause as I sling my Coach purse over my shoulder; a thoughtful lip purse adorns my face in replacement of the [...]
Yesterday, I felt drained. All week had been go, go, go…run from one meeting to another—get some good insights in—then run on to the next meeting. I literally ran backwards in the hall when one of my co-worker friends said hello to me and I just kept on moving—places to go, people to see, and [...]
No matter what “they” say, times are still tough for many of us playing catch up from the Great Recession. In my house, we moved from two incomes to one (and added two more children to the mix during that time). So, how do I keep the finances in control without stressing out big time [...]
Are you feeling stifled in your career? Is it difficult to get out of bed in the morning and drag yourself to work? Do you return home from work exhausted and zapped of every ounce of energy in your body? If the above questions hit a nerve, read on. As a business consultant, I work [...]
