One of my dear clients told me that he regularly repeats to himself “I’m embracing uncertainty.” This is brilliant, really, because it works for him as a way to pry his white knuckles off of the uncontrollable steering wheel of life right now. And to help him remember this phrase we’ve agreed that he’ll meditate and work out every morning before 9AM. After a lay-off he has more time to do this. The great thing is that he’s actually really doing what we agreed he would do and his mood, therefore, is less of ‘freaked out job searching desperation’ and more of having faith that he will connect with the right job. This is something we have worked on together, and something I work with a lot of clients on…who are you being as you go through the transition before you or that grips you. Our white knuckling doesn’t do… Read More
Author: Daisy
Los Angeles Venture Association 6th Annual Awards Dinner Honors Elevation Partners’ Ted Meisel, 7 Entrepreneurs
This article is from Euro Investor Published: January 23, 2009 The Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) held its Sixth Annual Venture Awards Dinner Wednesday evening to honor Southern California’s best growth companies and to present the Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurism to Elevation Partners’ Ted Meisel. The awards dinner was attended by over 200 leaders in the Venture Capital community and CEOs and founders of successful venture-backed companies. It was held at the Beverly Hills Hotel and benefited The Hope Street Group. Mr. Meisel, senior advisor with Elevation Partners, was honored for spearheading and nurturing a series of Internet-based companies that are household names today. He is perhaps best known for his role as CEO of Overture Services, the pioneer of search advertising. He joined the company (originally GoTo.com) in 1998 and led it to $1 billion in worldwide revenues by 2003, its fifth full year of operations, when… Read More
Work & Satisfaction…What Are You Learning Lately?
By: Daisy Swan Crossposted from: 1TherapyPlace.com Work feeling like work lately? Do you find yourself looking around and thinking that everyone else has this career thing figured out except for you? Wondering how getting up in the morning can be something you look forward to instead of dreading? Learning as a link to satisfaction Nine out of ten people I work with are bored by their work, their relationships, or their surroundings. When it comes down to it most of us need to make a change in how we see ourselves in our world to make important, although sometimes subtle, changes that lead to greater satisfaction. Our work touches all areas of our lives, so making change anywhere in our lives will impact our work. When was the last time you learned something new at work or outside of work? Not enough time in the day to learn… Read More
Where the Jobs Are
Now, more than ever, we all have to be savvy sleuths being curious and active to find how our interests can lead to jobs, or the people who may know of jobs. “Green” jobs top the list for many job seekers who are not only looking for work but who also aim to make a difference in the world. Here are a few ‘green’ resources to add to your list. Don’t forget to look at all of the job search, networking and career transition websites, books and ideas on our the links and resources pages on our website www.daisyswan.com. When looking at this sights put your hesitation to get involved aside and get out there and talk to people. We’ve seen some clients make great strides when they let their interests and passions propel them to attend events, conferences, classes and networking functions to learn. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Read More
A Twentysomething's Guide to Going Green
This article is from The Huffington Post By: Tracy Hepler Published: January 16, 2009 As twentysomethings, we have the power to influence the future of our environment. Unlike our parents and Gen X, we haven’t become brand committed yet. Businesses and leaders are waiting to see what we do. With our practices, our wallets and the Internet, we have the ability to significantly steer the course of the Green movement. See Your City From a Different View Getting out of the car completely changes your perspective. Bicycling and walking through your community allows you to actually engage in your neighborhood rather than just being a spectator who drives by. The environmental benefit is that by committing to cycle within a 2 mile radius of your home you can keep up to 20 lbs of carbon out of the air (per round trip). Volunteer in Your Community Our soon-to-be… Read More
Daddy’s Home, and a Bit Lost
This article is from The New York Times By: Peg Tyre Published: January 9, 2009 SCOTT BERRY has always been a morning person. For years he would wake up at 5 a.m., shower, shave and, tamping down a twinge of regret, plant quiet kisses on his two sleeping children and his wife, before backing his BMW out of the driveway. As the family breadwinner, he worked long hours at his job as a technology analyst for a boutique investment firm in Manhattan. The demands of his work and the substantial commute from his home in Darien meant he rarely saw Samantha, 8, and Max, 7, before his wife, Tracey, had them in their pajamas and ready for bed. Then in December 2007, Mr. Berry, 49, lost his job. He immediately looked for a new position but found opportunities puzzlingly elusive. In mid-2008 came the rout on Wall Street. Read More
Becoming More Disciplined At Work
If you truly want to see things starting to happen at your workplace, you are going to have to learn how to be more self-disciplined. This means you will need to maybe work on building on a personality trait you might have never had to begin with. So the efforts might be bigger for you, but you have every chance of getting there. Here is what you could do throughout your regular work week. Work On Building A Daily Schedule One of the very first things you are going to have to do is learn how to adhere to your very own daily schedule. Set it up by yourself considering the most and the least important tasks of the day. Prioritize everything and make sure you always set blocks of time aside for each and every task. When the time is up, move on to the next task on your… Read More
Corny, but True!
Last night, after our delicious Thanksgiving feast, I watched The Sound of Music with my son until past midnight. You might not think a 12-year-old boy would want to watch this with his Mom, but I explained that I thought it was an important movie for him to watch for several reasons. One, his history class has been studying the Holocaust and I thought it would provide another perspective on that horrid period of time; two, my son is very into music now and I told him he should have a good historical perspective on some of the music that others have built their music upon. I even mentioned that I know people go to The Hollywood Bowl every summer to enjoy The Sound Of Music Sing Along! Rodgers and Hammerstein have staying power. It’s been decades since I’ve watched the movie – I’ve seen this movie at least 7… Read More
What Happy People Don't Do
This article is from The New York Times By: Rony Caryn Rabin Published: November 19, 2008 Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That’s what unhappy people do. Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns out to be the single activity they engage in less often than unhappy people, said John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the author of the study, which appeared in the journal Social Indicators Research. While most large studies on happiness have focused on the demographic characteristics of happy people — factors like age and marital status — Dr. Robinson and his colleagues tried to identify what activities happy people engage in. The study relied primarily on the responses of 45,000… Read More
Bored at work? Read this. A third of all U.S. workers struggle with 'boreout.' But there are remedies.
This article was printed in The Christian Science Monitor, November 17, 2008. by Marilyn Gardner Nicole Haase would like to work harder than she does. But as a receptionist and payroll administrator for a manufacturing firm in Milwaukee, she finds limited opportunities to take on more duties. “Work is slow, and we’re a small company, so it’s not always easy to find other things to do,” Ms. Haase says. To fill empty moments, she e-mails friends and works on freelance writing assignments. “The Internet is my friend – anything to make the time pass,” she says, adding that the strain of having too little to do creates its own kind of burnout. Now there’s a name for this kind of underemployment: boreout. In a new book, “Boreout! Overcoming Workplace Demotivation,” authors Philippe Rothlin and Peter Werder call it a pervasive problem. Studies show that one-third of workers in the… Read More
