Let's Fix Monday: Create A Career You Love

Have you ever considered getting a mentor to help you on your career journey? Do you wonder how to get a mentor?

Mentors are valuable relationships that can accelerate your skill development and career change in many ways. They are key members to add to your personal board of directors.

Learn how to find the right mentor for you and how to develop a valuable mentoring relationship that will help you achieve your career goals and outcomes much faster than going it alone.

Do you experience the Sunday Scaries? It is that clenching wave of sadness, anxiety and dread on Sunday knowing you had to return to work on Monday. Many of us have accepted the Sunday Scaries as a normal part of life. It doesn't need to be. You may be wasting perfectly good Sunday by anticipating all sorts of bad things that could happen on Monday. In this episode, I share why the Sunday Scaries are real. Learn what causes them and how you can find calm. Monday can become less haunting and actually grow into something you look forward to.

Have you ever had a daydream about what your ideal job could be like? Or maybe wandered down a daydream of your ideal life? Did you find yourself stopping the dream, or shutting down those fantasies because your current life doesn't look anything like it?

This week I am going to talk about the importance of dreaming to create a compelling vision for your future self. A vision that is aligned to your true self is an important guide as you move through change.

Learn steps you can take to create a compelling vision for yourself and how you can take to bring your vision to life.

Have you found yourself ruminating over how dysfunctional your job is every day? Do you complain to others about how much you hate the work you do? Are you feeling lost about what is next and unable to take the next step in your career? In order to create a plan for your future, you need to know why your current job is not a match for you. Learn how to decipher what exactly is wrong about your current job so you can feel growth and joy today and in the next step of your career journey.

Have you ever had a really bad day or week at work? While bad days are part of our human experience, if you aren't enjoying your job or your career, these bad days may be more frequent for you. Shift away from the death spiral of stress and frustration and take care of what you need when those bad days come. Learn how to make a plan to bring you calm, peace and connection to get you through a bad day with more ease.

Do ever wonder why you aren't making progress on something you want or need to do? Are you feeling stuck and find yourself procrastinating? Often we are reluctant to move forward if something feels particularly daunting, overwhelming, or simply not fun. What if you could feel and see progress towards your goals in a way that is manageable and free of drama? Learn the power of turtle steps to help you get what you want in your career and other parts of your life.

Have you ever thought that getting a new job or promotion was going to make your life complete? Did you get what you wanted, but realized it didn't make you happy in the long run? We often think these external factors will give us the happiness we desire. Some of our happiness is hardwired, but there are many ways we can change our happiness. Learn why just getting a new job may not bring you happiness and the steps you can take to increase your happiness overall.

Have you ever had a challenging experience and had a hard time recovering from it? Do you find yourself resisting change at work? What makes some people melt into inaction while other people seem to thrive after a set-back? People going through career changes experience resistance at times because the change they are trying to create can feel overwhelming. To ease the stress, anxiety and overwhelm, work on building resilience.

Resilience will help you better adapt to change and setbacks along your career journey to help you get what you want. Learn about 4 practical ways you can build resilience, move through change and create the career and life you desire.

Do you find yourself in patterns that aren't serving you? Do you have beliefs or doubts that are holding you back from achieving what you want in life? Your brain is great at running efficiently, but it's not always right. Learn about your brain's confirmation bias, how it keeps you stuck, and how to use it to your advantage to create a career and life you love.

Do you want to make a career change but aren't sure how to modify your resume to take you into a new direction? Is it delaying your career search? Your resume is a key tool to communicate your skills, experience and value to new potential employers. Make them want to learn more about you and hire you! Learn 9 tips to help you update your resume for your career change that clearly captures your valuable experience to propel you into your new career path.