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Synchronicity and Serendipity Can Be Essential in Life

September 23, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

Synchronicity and Serendipity Synchronicity and Serendipity came up in a discussion during a mastermind group video call in the Career Pivot Community when we were discussing a member’s success. Before I go further with this story let me define the terms. Synchronicity is defined by Dictionary.com as the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly […]

Reestablishing Life Patterns When You Return to Work [Updated]

July 22, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

Life Patterns When we are laid off, get fired, or leave a job voluntarily, often our life patterns suffer. This might include: When we eat What we eat Where we eat Exercise Sleep Bathroom (I will not discuss this but..) We are creatures of habit. Eating at the same time each day is healthy. Sleeping […]

The Death Of The Relationship Sales Career

July 15, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

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. […]

Introverts, Have You Scheduled Your Restorative Niches? [Updated]

May 13, 2019 by Marc Miller 1 Comment

Restorative Niches I learned about restorative niches from the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Many people who know me find it hard to believe, but I am very much a closet introvert. I appear to be very extroverted because I am a public speaker and […]

Top 5 Career Books that have Nothing to do with Careers [Updated]

April 22, 2019 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Top 5 Career Books You may wonder which books I recommend to my clients or what I have been reading. It may surprise you that none of the books I am going to recommend from my list are conventional career books. Let’s get started. Note this post was originally published in October of 2015. It […]

How to Remain Valuable in a Volatile Market [Guest Post]

April 8, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

The job market today is incredibly volatile. People are staying with the same company for shorter periods of time (partially due to many companies’ lack of loyalty to their employees). Well educated employees are coming from overseas, companies are outsourcing certain business functions, and many companies employ the tactic of laying off tenured employees in […]

This Is Not What I Signed Up For Moment

November 12, 2018 by Marc Miller 5 Comments

This Is Not What I Signed Up For! I have had multiple discussions with people who are having This Is Not What I Signed Up For Moments. These people are at all levels who have taken new jobs and found out that the job responsibilities were different than what they expected. I like to say they […]

How People Think of You May Be Frozen in Time

September 24, 2018 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Frozen in Time How people from our past think of us may be frozen in time. We all have colleagues from the early years of our career who do not think of us in today’s terms. They remember us how we were back then. Their memories of us are frozen in time. I learned about this concept […]

Switching to Digital: How to Jumpstart Your Remote Career [Guest Post]

September 17, 2018 by guest blogger 2 Comments

Jumpstart Your Remote Career Remote work is on the rise and will most likely continue trending in that direction. Particularly with studies continuing to show that remote workers are happier, healthier and more productive. Or at least they can be. Whether remote work is a positive or negative experience all depends on how you manage […]

Are You a Square Peg Trying to Fill a Round Hole? [Updated]

August 13, 2018 by Marc Miller 28 Comments

Square Peg? Are you the square peg trying to fit into a round hole in your career? I have been working with quite a few square pegs. They just do not fit into the traditional roles that corporations define. Some try to squeeze themselves into those roles. Some are very successful. Unfortunately, they usually end […]