Publisher’s Blog

After decades of pursuing one or more careers, it is entirely possible to lose touch with what you are good at and what you actually enjoy doing. Many of us choose a career path well before we are even eligible to vote. Life then happens and we move along year to year tolerating our employment paths and situations. Did you ever dream about enjoying or finding meaning in what you work at every day? Are you faced with career transition and want to get it right at this point in your life? Then I have an opportunity for you!

Dick Bolles, author of the hugely successful and long-time best seller “What Color is Your Parachute?”, is hosting a 5 day workshop in his home, just east of San Francisco, from Saturday, July 19^th through Thursday, July 24^th. It is limited to 15 participants so I would recommend contacting him for an application immediately. See jobhuntersbible.com.

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I have to confess, the line that really caught my attention in this article was the reference to our president, “the Decider”, and the statement that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one.”  It turns out that we, as complex human beings, really can improve, not just maintain, the health of our brains as we age. 

In The New York Times on May 4th (Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?), Janet Rae-Dupree challenges us to consciously develop new habits in our lives.  Apparently this process of developing new habits, creates parallel synaptic paths in the brain AND brand new brain cells.  Yay! The result?  Increased creativity and innovation that we can all use to improve both our personal and work lives. 

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