Deliberate Careers Blog

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...

Here is a story I heard several times from our pastor, Brother T. (I grew up in North Texas which is part of the Bible Belt. Brother T. played quite a big role in my young life!)

“Once upon a time th...

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...

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...

Okay, I don’t believe in CONFIDENCE.
Yep, you heard that right. I don’t believe in CONFIDENCE.

It’s not that I don’t believe confidence exists. I just don’t believe it’s reliable. It’s not something y...