Deliberate Careers Blog

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...

Suicide is not a fun topic, but I feel compelled to write about it nonetheless. Please consider this your warning that there are Deep Thoughts below.

When someone such as Robin Williams, who has been...

I love to cook as much as I love to coach. I have read more cookbooks in my life than any other type of book and will take every opportunity to hang in the kitchen with chefs of all stripes, including...

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...

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...

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...