Join us for six weeks (and one Bonus Week) this Fall discovering your strengths, defining your calling, developing your plan of action, AND saving money! I am offering Dan Miller’s life changing 48 Days to the Work You Love Seminar in a small group setting at 70% off the price of my one-on-one vocational coaching [...] Read more »

For this final segment of our 10-part journey discovering “Your Life’s Work,” I want to share this quote: “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone’s task is unique as [...] Read more »

1. Stagnating in fear and frustration. I had been solving computer software problems for large corporations for years when I began wondering how the heck I landed in that career path. I loved the people I worked with; I even liked the company; but I found myself complaining about the work and became increasingly dissatisfied [...] Read more »

My close friend Shane Copeland is an interesting bloke. He is a long-haired, biker looking, cowboy-boot wearing guy who served in the Marines as a reconnaissance soldier. He enjoys reading 300-page historical tomes and novels of all varieties, from Harry Potter to Zane Grey, and he listens to the twangy sounds of country music. As [...] Read more »

The road from Bolivia’s main city, La Paz, to a region known as the Yungas was built by Paraguayan prisoners of war back in the 1930s. Every year it is estimated 200 to 300 people die on this stretch of road less than 50 miles long. In one year alone, 25 vehicles plunged off the [...] Read more »

I’ve always found the “resume” section of any job- hunting or career book the most tedious. Even in the most inspiring and excellent books on the subject, I’ve employed those chapters on the resume as sleep medication. They come in handy during those nights spent in wide-eyed panic over where the next job was going [...] Read more »

A while back, I came across a statement made by mountain climber/photographer David Breashears, who has been to the peak of Mt. Everest four times: “We have founded a support group for Everest climbers called Everest Anonymous,” he stated. “Members can call each other up for support when they’re thinking about returning to the mountain.” [...] Read more »

The Intentional Life The theologian Frederick Buechner once wrote, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” This quote changed my life 4 years ago. It was a concept so foreign to my thinking that when I read it I could hardly believe it. [...] Read more »

To continue our focus on your life’s work, consider this: do you have a job, a career, or a vocation? Taking a close look at these terms will reveal their subtle but critical differences in meaning. More importantly, you may not be doing the one that brings you the most fulfillment. A “job” stands lowest [...] Read more »

In my last career blog I asked, “What if we chose a job we loved, and determined to find a way to make a good income from it?” and “What change in our thinking would it take, and what would we have to do to make that happen?” Pondering these questions, you probably found yourself [...] Read more »