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Do you have a user guide for you?
Maybe you should? “A User Guide for a Person creates clarity on how you work—what you value, how you look at problems, what your blind spots or areas of growth are, and how to build trust with you.”
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Two different ways of looking at your career
I get uncomfortable when people ask me what my career goals are. I guess I consider the thought of a (single) career too linear, and frankly, I don’t really know what I want to do next. I’m lucky enough to have gotten pretty good at both being useful and learning new things, so I’m not…
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Side-step a weakness by assuming a new role
As a bit of an add-on to my recap of learnings from professional coaching, I came across the following story from an interview with John Vervaeke on the Tim Ferris show, where John describes how he’s cultivated a role for himself that side-steps his natural constitution. This struck a chord.
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What I learned from professional coaching
I highly recommend that everyone work with a professional coach no matter where they are in their life or career. Through my coaching experience, I’ve been able to discover things about myself that would have been either impossible or taken a really long time to discover on my own. In other words, working with a…
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What’s your recipe for being your best?
One of my goals for doing professional coaching was to get some help identifying my “zone of genius”. Basically, I want to know how make better decisions about what new work I take on and choose work that lights me up vs wears me out. Past experience has taught me that it’s easy to confuse…
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Build a reputation around the type of work you want to do
When you aren’t doing the work you want to be doing, things are going to go one of two ways: Either way, it’s untenable and there is a better choice.
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Assumptions are decisions, too
I’ve got a big change coming with my work. For the first time ever in my life, I’m going to be working on a part-time basis, at least for the next 6 – 12 months. Maybe longer. I’m extremely grateful for this option and am also a bit scared about the change. I will write…
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Initiator or sustainer
Initiators like to create brand new things. They aren’t afraid of staring at a blank page in front of them. They like designing and building the ship. Sustainers like to operate things. They enjoy running a process and aren’t afraid to improve something someone else made. They like to steer and run the ship. Which…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
