“But I don’t know what I want to do?” This frustrated exclamation wasn’t coming from a twenty-something. This was my 52 year old coaching client. He had a 26 year career under his belt and wanted a change. He knew he wanted to take the early-out retirement being offered and start a new life. But doing what? »more»

Your career choice impacts your quality of life, standard of living, personal identity, and much more. By the time you hit middle age, career changes are far from easy, but many people feel a mismatch with the career that they had selected earlier in life and want to at least explore the possibility of pursuing a new career. Are you one of these people? »more»

"The largest single factor driving job satisfaction is the opportunity for growth and career development. This finding is consistent with what we are seeing in other countries, as people seek to strengthen their skills to increase their capacity to change jobs or change careers." »more»

After many years of working around human development, I have watched people who go through significant growth experience stress in their families. Even when change is for the better, change is still change. »more»

The wall between our working and non-working lives continues to shrink and in some cases disappear. Who/what do you blame?

One villain might be the technological "conveniences" such as the home PC and the mobile phone. It used to be hard to work at home because so much of what we needed was at work. If we were at home we were more than likely going to be doing things other than office work. But that was before Excel and Word-equipped laptops and PCs became as common in the household as toasters. More common in fact, when was the last time you saw a home with more than one toaster (let alone a 22" flat panel toaster)? »more»

Telecommuting could be detrimental to your career according to a career study by search firm Korn/Ferry International. »more»

WSJ writer Sue Shellenbarger writes that while the national mood on work-life issues is not good (she says the worst she's seen in 15 years), there are certain trends gaining momentum foretelling positive change in providing more control over when and where we work. »more»

Can you or someone you know turn off work? Can you delegate? Does work make your relationships suffer?

You can probably see where we are going with this line of questioning. It has to do with work-life balance or in the case of workaholics, the lack thereof. »more»

Do not confuse hard work with workaholism.

People who work hard know the boundaries between their work lives and their personal lives, workaholics do not. Hard workers can function normally when not at work; workaholics cannot. Hard work is healthy, workaholism is not. »more»

"... a lot of people are living out of balance. Working too much; (taking on) too many responsibilities.

They often need values clarification. If you say family and friends are important to you but you work 80 hours a week, you're not living or acting on values. You're kidding yourself. »more»