Deliberate Careers Blog

As I sat in my car waiting for the traffic light to change, I saw a young cardinal hopping along in the grass on the side of the road.

While destined, I’m sure, to become a beautiful red bird with a ...

It is the night before my birthday and all the through the house,
Not a computer was stirring, just my little mouse.
You see I work for myself and my schedule I make,
So, I can be with my kids the day of...

I have always had freckles. Truly, I have so many freckles you couldn’t count them all if you had two entire days! I even have one on the bottom of my left big toe! To say that I hated them as a kid w...

I’ll admit it: I’m a chick flick fan. One of my favorite movies is Failure to Launch. It isMovie Reel funny and bittersweet—my favorite combo and it has more than a couple of stars from my beloved Lon...

As a kid, I was in a car accident. In true Texas fashion, my brother, sister and I were all piled in the cab of my Dad’s truck, headed to the department store where my Mom worked to visit her on her b...

As I am writing this today, I have a sick kid at home. Which means it’s not exactly a perfect workday. But it has provided the perfect opportunity to talk about an ogre I and a lot of people meet ever...

Years ago, driving across Texas from my hometown of Rusk to Austin, I planned to have lunch with my sister, who lives in Waco.

Along the way, I got completely turned around and found myself in a smal...

The promotion goes south. Someone else walks away with the contract you worked hard for. The project is canned AFTER you put in long hours. We all have those moments when what we want is just NOT work...

My family loves waffles, but I hate waffling.

What?!

You know that kind of decision-making where you flip back and forth like the yummy breakfast pastry. It goes something like this:

You make a bol...

As a career coach, I spend a lot of time helping people with their “mistakes.”

There are so many people who feel they have made a professional mistake, or have been handed obstacles and problems that...

People come to me every day feeling stuck and powerless, without the job they love. Every single time, I find that they are living a LIE. The TRUTH is you are trapped in your own thinking and indecisi...

My dad—God love him—was stubborn, loud, often inappropriately fun, and loved attention. Yes, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree on this one.

I loved that man.
And he gave me the crappiest career...