How to Figure out Your Next Career Move: 4 Easy Steps
Do you feel stuck in your job? Do you feel extra stress during the day, and then spend nights rehashing everything that you experienced during the day? It could be that you're in the wrong job - or simply in need of a change to the way you manage your daily tasks. For...
Making And Breaking Routine
Your approach to routine determines your approach to your work and life. An effective routine can help structure your day for success, while an ineffective one can hurt everything from productivity to job satisfaction. By the same token, being too rigid and inflexible...
Getting Healthier Emotionally
In the last installment of Mark Strong Coaching’s “Getting Healthier†series, we explore what it means to get healthier emotionally. Emotional health encompasses physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Part of being...
Creative Tools to Stay in School – Even at Work
As promised in our last posting, here are some strategies that you can use to stay in school while at work: Become an Expert It may not be stated as a literal responsibility in your job description, but your company pays you to be an expert. Learning new things and...
It’s Not All You
In our last posting, we focused on ways to embrace failure and use it to foster future success. Another piece of the failure-to-success puzzle is recognizing that much of life is outside of your control. When you don't succeed at what you try to do, it's easy to feel...
Tell It Like It Is
If you're not a know-it-all but feel like you may be working with one, there are things you can do to address the problem. The first thing you must do is speak up about it. If no one knows there's an issue, nothing will change. At the same time, with a sensitive...
Repeat Yourself
Repeat Yourself I personally believe that repetition is a key to success in most areas. As a life coach and career coach in NYC, I can tell you that many of the individuals and professionals who I coach have benefitted from this simple principle in some amazing ways....
Say Yes to No
As a Life Coach in NYC, I often remind my clients of the basic principles of success, both at work and home. One of these principles is that saying "no" more often is key to maintaining a balanced life. Why is this so? Isn't it important to greet opportunities in life...
Seek Your Purpose
Many people talk about finding their purpose. But how many people really take active steps toward doing so? Being a life coach is really all about helping people find their purpose. And as I've seen as a career coach and executive coach as well, when people seek their...
Simplify and “Enough-ize”
When is enough, enough? With so many priorities constantly vying for our attention, it can be hard to determine when we've done as much as "or more than" we can do. To determine what is enough for you whether in your professional or personal life, it pays to get good...