Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You This book’s title piqued my interest – “Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals” by Steven J. Stein and Paul T. Bartone. What is “Hardiness” and what is its impact on me? Stress is usually perceived as something to avoid – i.e. risk aversion. The key […]
Are You Prepared for Career Disruption from the Coronavirus?
Career Disruption from the Coronavirus? There will be career disruption from the Coronavirus. Now is a good time to take a moment and do some career planning. The career disruption for the coronavirus could be short term career disruption OR it could permanently change your career for the worse or the better. This is not […]
Next for Me: A Guide to Startups for Dreamers [Book Review]
Next for Me While targeted to entrepreneurs over 50, Next for Me is really for anyone creating a new business. The authors and business partners, Carole McManus and Jeff Tidwell, are two self-described “time-tested Silicon Valley professionals” with careers spanning startups to Fortune 500 companies. They don’t claim to know the secret formula for success. […]
Never Too Old to Get Rich by Kerry Hannon [Book Review]
Never Too Old to Get Rich: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting a Business Mid-Life by Kerry Hannon Never Too Old to Get Rich by Kerry Hannon is a guidebook for people in the second half of life who want to start a business. The book is dense with information, presented as a series of case […]
What will be Your Focus Word for the New Year?
Focus Word for the New Year I want to introduce you to a new concept, at least it is new to me. It is about picking a focus word that will be a guiding light throughout the next year. For the last few years, I have taken the last 2 weeks of the year to […]
A Redesigned and Refocused CareerPivot after Attack
A Redesigned and Refocused CareerPivot A new redesigned and refocused CareerPivot website has been launched. There were multiple impetuses that caused this to happen but the primary one was that the website was attacked. This was not something like a denial of service attack (DoS) which is most commonly associated with a website attack. Someone went […]
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition is Now Available
Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition is Now Available Repurpose Your Career 3rd Edition is finally available in both paperback and Kindle ebook formats. The paperback will be available through Amazon’s Kindle Digital Publishings (KDP) Expanded Distribution. What KDP’s Help page says is as follows: Booksellers and libraries purchase paperbacks from large distributors. If you enroll […]
The Death Of The Relationship Sales Career
Relationship Sales Career The relationship sales career is not dead yet but it is on life support. This is not a career you would want to start if you are graduating from college today. I cannot tell you the number of relationship salespeople I have talked to in the last 5 years who are struggling. […]
Dealing With Uncertainty In The 2nd Half Of Life
Dealing With Uncertainty The word uncertainty keeps on popping up in my discussions with people over the last few months. Last week I published the post The Stress of the Being an Economic Refugee Expat which was all about the uncertainty that comes up when we make bad decisions or mistakes. I was referred to […]
