I haven’t been bored in so long, but I know what it looks like, feels like, and what it can do to a person. Boredom can take us in a few different directions…

* motivate us to do something to change the situation that’s boring us

* frustration, irritation and anger toward who we think is boring us

* demotivate us into depression and the blob state of no movement

A lot of parents romanticize how they were bored when they were kids during the summer and how that spurred them to figure out new games and spend time outside exploring. There’s something to that. Being forced to change your perspective and look for something can jumpstart a person into action towards a new activity from which they learn.

I think adults have a harder time with boredom because it’s so insidious. Work and family demands can keep you in motion and you might not even recognize that you’re bored. So what happens instead is you just feel like something’s not right. You don’t even have the juice to do something that gives you a lift. It feels like depression — kind of — you just don’t feel jazzed. This is ennui.

OK. I think too many people are experiencing boredom. I look at all of the blogging and the videos on the net and figure someone’s doing something while they’re at work and it’s not their work…it’s something that’s somehow more stimulating than what they’re doing at work. So why is work so boring that so many people are avoiding it?

I think we have a national problem with boredom and the way work works. And with education. Bored people need something they can sink their teeth into that inspires them to ‘chew’ longer — to get into something to a deeper level. We need to up the personal expectation level so that adults of all ages are moved to do more with their lives by pushing themselves (or getting someone to push them) further into the world — by going for more opportunity, by learning more in school or on the job.

I advise people to move on if they’re held back at work. I work with my clients to stretch themselves and engage in a way that may be uncomfortable at first. But then they can’t imagine going back to not stretching. We can all do more. But we want more of the good stuff. Stuff that enlivens you — not just distracts you. Being busy doesn’t take away boredom. Opening your eyes to the opportunity around you to discover what’s next removes boredom. Okay, so maybe there’s a bit of fear that comes up. So what? Come on. Let’s go already.

By Chris Colin, Special to SF Gate

Monday, June 18, 2007

It’s not that Glenn Kurtz coulda been a contender. He was one, contending more in his little finger than most of us do in our lives, and then it all came apart.

OK, not one little finger but 10. At an age when the rest of us were mastering shoelaces, Kurtz was setting out to become a classical concert guitarist. As best I can calculate, this is statistically like setting out to become a seven-foot-tall lottery winner who gets struck by lightning every few weeks.

“The number of people who make a living as concert guitarists of the kind I was trying to be is extraordinarily small. I can think of at most 10 people who make their living exclusively by performing classical guitar. And that’s what I wanted to do,” Kurtz, a longtime San Franciscan-turned-New Yorker told me over the phone the other day.

As a child prodigy in upper-middle-class Long Island — he started taking lessons at six or seven — he said guitar came easy. His parents did not pressure him, he just loved to play. He played for several hours a day, and when he wasn’t playing, he was often cultivating his musical career: While other kids grooved to the AM radio hits, he made a pilgrimage to see Andrés Segovia play. While other kids watched TV, he found himself on the “Merv Griffin Show,” playing with Dizzy Gillespie. While other teens were at the football game, he was winning Long Island’s 1981 Teen Talent Competition.

It would be misleading to speak of Kurtz’s dedication to the classical guitar — to do so would suggest it was somehow a thing separate from him. He and his music and his pursuit of it were all one. When it came time to apply for college, there was no doubt. He enrolled at the New England Conservatory.

Was Kurtz aware that his path was a chancy one? That truly making it, professionally, as a concert guitarist happened almost never — and that a failed concert guitarist does not have a readily apparent back-up career? In a sense, these questions are irrelevant. He was a classical guitarist, and there was nothing else but to charge ahead.

Kurtz’s is a story many of us know at some neurotic level, whether we’re musicians, ball players, painters, writers or tightrope walkers. Owing to a confluence of doting parents, late capitalism and a vague cloud of nurturing in the air, we’re told to pursue our ambitious passions, or maybe our passionate ambitions. Follow our hearts and we’ll eventually prevail, we’re told from an early age; over and over the movie music swells and the plucky hero beats the odds, and we drive home and think, “What does Ralph Macchio have that I don’t?”

Nothing, in Kurtz’s case. After music school, he moved to Vienna, the mecca of classical music, and began performing in small venues with a friend — clubs, though, not concert halls. The playing went well enough, but something was off. Slowly, it started to become clear that Kurtz was moving more laterally than upward. Now that he was beginning to be a musician out in the real world, the real world didn’t look right.

“We were getting some recognition,” he says, “but I think the reality of the life was confronting the idealism of my dream. The career I was starting to have was not the one I had dreamed of.”

It happened suddenly, a “crystallizing moment,” he says: On a train ride back from a gig in Graz, he asked his then-girlfriend how he’d played. Good, she said — but like a musician who didn’t practice enough.

And so, in a moment, a lifelong dream was punctured. It was not what she said, it was the inherent dangers of following one’s passions all the way to a career. Surely we can’t all beat the odds — I’m pretty sure that’s not how odds work. But do we keep at it anyway? Hang it up? Huge questions for a person facing either professional satisfaction or abject disappointment. The enlightened thing might be to keep painting or typing or playing simply because we enjoy it. But, as Kurtz points out, enjoyment is one of the first things to go out the window in the pursuit of a serious passion.

“[That comment on the train] touched this fear that every young artist has,” Kurtz says. “You can devote yourself as thoroughly as Beethoven and still not be good enough. Reality bore so little relation to what I had imagined that I just didn’t want it anymore.”

And that was the end, at the age of 25. All at once Kurtz saw that his lifelong fantasy was just that, and the reality of his life could not intersect it. He quit the thing that he’d built nearly his entire life around.

“I stopped playing. I stopped listening. When [hearing music] was unavoidable, it was like seeing your old girlfriend out having a good time with someone else. You can’t say, ‘Oh, that’s nice!’ You have to stare straight ahead and keep walking. So that’s what I did.”

Kurtz calls it “the most painful thing that had happened in my life.” He moved to New York and got his first nine-to-five job, “punching a time clock and typing memos” in the publishing world. It felt like jail, he says, and after a while he made that familiar escape: graduate school. He moved to San Francisco and got a Ph.D. in comparative literature. He liked it, he says. It wasn’t love, but he liked it.

For 10 years, he avoided anything having to do with what had been the center of his world. It sounds bleak, and it was.

“Your idea of what it means to succeed can destroy your pleasure, more profoundly than any kind of actual failure,” he says. “Because if you continue to believe in that pleasure, your joy in it is what drives you. But if it’s an external goal — if ‘winning’ is the goal — then even if you enjoy it, it’ll get destroyed.”

Grim stuff. Not the stuff we’re taught when first swing a bat or paint a painting. But what Kurtz found is that succeeding can happen through, not in spite of, failure. In thoroughly destroying your goal, he says, a funny liberation can set in. One day, a decade after burying it in his closet, he reached again for his guitar.

“I started thinking, ‘This used to mean so much to me.’ I guess I became curious: ‘What happened to that? I used to spend eight hours a day practicing!’ It started to nag at me — this thing I’d cared so much about was so absent from my life,” he says.

The playing came back to him. In fact, it came back fast enough that he briefly relapsed. “Great! I’m so much older now,” he recalls thinking. “I’m really going to succeed as a concert guitarist!”

That lasted a week. Soon enough, he realized this was missing the point. The struggle was not to try to repeat his earlier story or recover his earlier skill, he says, but to let it become something new.

“You have to readjust your expectations for yourself and your pleasure threshold — the level at which it becomes enjoyable to do,” he says. “As an aspiring concert guitarist, that threshold is quite high. There were all these levels that I had to achieve for it to feel good. But when just playing felt good again, the way it did when I was a kid, that allowed it to be fun. I was just so grateful to be playing again, without a larger goal.”

Kurtz says he encounters similar stories everywhere: golfers, dancers, anyone who nursed along a dream for years and then woke abruptly. Beware your idealism, he advises. That doesn’t mean don’t have any — maybe just understand its perfectionist roots.

I should mention that Kurtz is a kind, unpresumptuous kind of guy — hardly the sort to go around peddling advice. I solicited it because of the ironic new situation in which he finds himself. In coming to terms with his story, Kurtz has now slipped from his lifelong fantasy into someone else’s: His first book, “Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music,” comes out this week with Knopf and has already been hailed for its candor and insight. Having tried for so many years to find success as one kind of artist, he is suddenly in the midst of it as another.

In the book, Kurtz tells the story of his dismal retreat from all he’d loved — and then of that unexpected development 10 years later: Having finally killed his dream, he found himself oddly free to take the old guitar from its case again — not as a man who would make a living in concert halls but as a man who simply liked the sounds of Beethoven and Mozart.

He does not play for hours on end each day now. But he plays. And more surprising to him, he enjoys it. In his writing, practicing emerges as the ultimate antidote to ungrounded ambition — it is the thing divorced from the fantasy. The book is a poignant, and at times wrenching, account of hope, loss and, as Kurtz puts it, “how to fail more successfully.”

Chris Colin was a writer-editor at Salon, and before that a busboy, a bread deliverer and a bike messenger, among other things. He’s the author of “What Really Happened to the Class of ’93,” about the lives of his former high school classmates, and co-author of The Blue Pages, a directory of companies rated by their politics and social practices. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, the New York Observer, McSweeney’s Quarterly and several anthologies. He lives in San Francisco.

Five minutes of conversation on TV feels like the wind at the beach — it rushes past you and you can’t catch it. You just have to experience it.

This afternoon I had the opportunity to talk about career and life coaching on ABC News Now — for about 5 minutes. It’s a funny situation. You’re looking at a camera, talking to the camera, hot lights on you, people in the room are silent, and the person interviewing you can see you and is talking to you, but you’re only hearing that person through the tiny earpiece that’s in your ear. I’ve seen enough movies to know about this earpiece (think Broadcast News. Love that scene when Albert Brooks is sweating) but it is a little odd to experience this. You hear yourself talking and for a moment you know that everybody else in the room is only hearing you and you have to shut that thought off. So you have to really focus and respond and stay clear to answer and not veer off. I love to veer off. I’m the queen of parenthetical lapses. But I didn’t. I think. I’ll see tomorrow when this airs.

Anyway, I digress. Here’s the thing that’s been nagging at me since I left the studio. I didn’t say everything I’d like to have said…What would I have said? I’ve only thought about this all afternoon and evening since those 5 minutes on air…

* That I’ve seen people make incredible changes in their lives; changes in the way they think and process information and take action. People transform their relationships so that they experience a whole other level of satisfaction in their everyday lives.

*As a result of coaching I’ve seen people learn life altering things about themselves and then have the courage to take action that changes the course they were on to a much more productive and positive one.

*That having a coach is like having a friend, mentor, teacher, guide and godparent all in one.

*That the investment in a coach who really hears you and cares about you can help you reach goals you previously thought were out of your reach — by any stretch of your imagination.

*Most of us don’t get the kind of impartial support that we want and need. It’s so easy for people to talk right to the fear that you have about doing whatever you’re considering. Often others see you as you are for them. They don’t see the person you envision yourself to be. Your coach can. And we’ll take you and your goals seriously so you can too.

*On a personal note, the work I do lets me share the information I gather in all of the reading and listening that I do. I learn so much from my clients, from books, the gazillion magazines and newspapers I read — and then pass on whatever pertinent information I can to help them get where their going. This is pretty sustaining work.

OK. That it. Thanks for listening. Now I can stop thinking about this and move on to the other writing I wanted to get done this week. That may have been more like twenty minutes of conversation.

When I saw the advertisement for the conference I knew I had to be there. I grew up with The New Yorker magazine — in fact, a little known fact about me is that at the tender age of 14 I sent a poem I’d written to The New Yorker. Of course it was a pretty lousy poem which certainly was rejected; I received a nice letter thanking me for my submission. I don’t think I even told my parents I’d submitted anything.

Anyway, I’ve read a lot of NYer magazines in my life and have loved and hated a lot of the writing I’ve read in it. But the New Yorker Conference was a must.
I had the good fortune to hear Malcolm Gladwell, son of a mathematician, tell stories just as he does in his books — rambling, not sure where they’re going, full of rich language informative stories that conclude with elegant solutions to complex problems that you didn’t even know existed. He connects the dots so beautifully — his brilliance is finding those gems that lead to his conclusions. I also learned from Dennis Muren; how the special effects we’ve seen in Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park were made…and how his curiosity has always led him to figure out how to do something instead of thinking it can’t be done — made me wish I could have another life as a student at Cal Arts. I loved meeting and talking with Ken Auletta — the charming and smart writer who’s graced the pages of the NYer for years. He’s one of those guys you just know has so much information and brain power –like a cheshire cat grinning…what’s behind that smile? Can’t I have another go round as a journalism major and work my butt off so that I can be an editorial assistant at the New Yorker? The Washington Post? The New York Times?

The amazing creator of Sim City and the Sims, Will Wright, presented us with a peek at his new game that will clearly be a hit in our home — Spore will captivate any child/human who loves to create creatures, (think of your Mii for your Wii — My son created a Mii for me and everyone in our family — and as cartoonish as they are they actually look like each of us) how they move about the world and create more opportunities to create actions and reactions. Absolutely playful and smart and profitable.

One sad note — David Byrne gave a most depressing presentation about the state of the music industry. We all know there needs to be a new model for this business but no one seems to know how it’s going to work so that artists can make any money. With all of the co-mingling of music being made via technology more people have their music heard than ever before…but there’s not much in the way of pay…

The NYer Conference was about looking five years ahead. Barry Diller said the truth: We don’t know what’s going to be happening in 2012. If you look back five years ago and see all that’s here that we didn’t know, or have, or use as we do now…there’s no telling what’s ahead. We can see the hints leading us ahead and take cues and be proactive. Let our curiosity guide us. Got to stay on our toes. There’s so much in our world that is content and visually rich. So many options to grab hold of. We all want to create and achieve and be a part of something. Sometimes the world’s a bit overwhelming…like the New Yorker Conference. But so good.

I’m on a working vacation. Anyone who has their own business — forget it — most of us — know this isn’t the oxymoron it sounds like. My life and my work are fully integrated, which is how I like it to be, actually.

My son, who is almost 11, is on Spring Break which means that I get to enjoy the things I wouldn’t do if I didn’t have him for my excuse. Yesterday we went to Universal Studios and today we’re off to the Science Center. I think of these excursions as part of my work because while I’m experiencing these environments I’m always thinking about how they work, who’s done the work to create these attractions and what it takes to keep the jobs that these people have. How did this all develop, what skills are needed to create these entertaining and educational, creative and profitable (I think) businesses humming along? I know and work with people who work in these and other similar business environments. I know the difficulties that many of my clients, and friends, experience working in the ‘entertainment’ business. We watch The Apprentice and the projects these brave souls take on. All of these people inform my experience of these day trips.

Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sea World Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon and other games have given my son and I the opportunity to analyze how much souvenirs and the price of admission need to be for us to keep our businesses running. We’ve discussed where the food and bathrooms need to be located and why snack carts are everywhere in a theme park. These games offer parents and kids a great opportunity to learn about economics and marketing. I recommend them to anyone. Business and entertainment are intracately interwoven — we all know this. And our world is only going to get more creatively drawn — the skills we and our kids need to be successful in this world are decidedly changing. We all need to be nimble and see how everything is connected to everything else. How entertainment, marketing, design, finance and engineering, law and health are all connected. That’s what makes our world so fascinating and stimulating. Seeing the broader connections will help all of us navigate through these increasingly rapid changes in our world.

I love what I do — helping people get clear about what they want and then figuring out how to get there. Most of us don’t get enough of the right kind of encouragement to go for what we want and that’s what I, and my associate coaches are here to provide. It’s not just encouragement and support that we provide– I certainly don’t want to discount the encouragement we might get from family and friends when we’re going through an important transition– But a career coach can offer the various other perspectives and approaches that can really stimulate personal growth, decision making and action that leads to the sought after results. And it’s the start of 2007 — a time of year that many people decide to get moving so that they can see some results by the next December. We’re here to get things going.

Maybe it’s time to consider launching your own venture, or maybe you’re ready to move up to the next level in your career. Maybe you aren’t sure what the first or next step is, or you’re trying to support your child or spouse as they make the next moves. We have a group of coaches who can help with all of this. Our coaches well educated, smart, creative and are experienced at working with clients from all industries and professions, with people at all levels of their career development, from Coast to Coast. We all love to help people make the best decisions possible, using our intelligence, humor, intuition and knowledge of what this process is all about. We all want this to be the best year yet. That’s what it’s all about.

Making Work Work:

A Women’s Group for Mothers Transitioning Back to Work and
Those Adjusting to Being Back at Work

Facilitated by Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC, Career Coach and Sharon Berg, Ph.D.

Starting Saturday, January 27, 2007
10AM- 12PM

Limited to 8 Participants

Making Work Work is designed to be an empowering place for mothers to sort out the challenges of working in two vital places – home and work with the intention of holistically increasing satisfaction. Participants will enjoy lively discussions and supportive facilitation by a team of two professionals an experienced Career Coach, and a Clinical Psychologist – who know the terrain of the juggling act and all that it demands. Join us as we explore, and find, creative and satisfying solutions to make work and home life work better.
What you will get:

• Monthly supportive and engaging meetings with other women who are grappling with similar challenges and transitions
• Practical and useful coaching and support to reach individual goals
• Ideas and inspiration to take action
• Useful tools and resources
• Meaningful connection with other women making positive choices

This group will meet one time per month for six months. This six month commitment will enable group members to establish and reach desired goals. This is not group therapy, but rather, supportive discussion with purpose.
The cost of the series includes one two-hour group meeting each month, useful resources and handouts, and unlimited email support for $400 for the 6 month period, or approximately $66 per meeting an excellent value when you consider that two dedicated professionals are facilitating this customized program in a comfortable and confidential setting.

If you are considering getting back to work and want support in taking the steps to make that a reality, or are at work and want work to work better, plan to join us for monthly inspiring, and motivating group discussion.

The facilitators:
Sharon Berg, PhD (PSY 18987), has been a therapist specializing in children and families for 8 years in Los Angeles. She balances a career and family life with her husband and 13 month-old daughter. Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC is a Certified Co-Active Coach and a career counselor in private practice for 12 years. She enjoys life with her husband, her 10 year old son and their 2 dogs.

I hear that everyone likes ‘tips’ — I’m not talking about tips in a jar– Tips on how to do anything are supposed to be useful to people. But I’m a little bit anti-tips. Here’s why…

Tips are neat tidy packages of info and real learning doesn’t usually happen that way. Real learning comes from getting messy and going down a few different roads and then coming to a clearing where everything makes sense. I’m also little bit anti- ‘elevator pitch’ for the same reason…I prefer to engage with people in a more real way and that takes just a little more time than a 30 second sound bite.

I know we’re a sound-bite culture, or that’s what we’re told, but really I think we’re all looking for meaning and having things make sense. Tips sound like they make sense, but then there’s that ‘chinese food’ effect of feeling empty after we devour them.

I read a great article in Inc. Magazine last night about getting messy and how all of the ‘being organized’ hype doesn’t really lead to great productivity. I love an article like that because it stands up for the truth instead of going along with popular and conventional wisdom. The truth is that a lot of us have messy desks that help us to get things done — and done well. Of course there are those people who are just great at having a tidy desk and that works for them. But let’s face it, a lot of life is messy and that’s okay too, because the real meat of life isn’t always tidy. I think we know, intuitively, when we need to tidy up our lives and our desks to get more of what we want. And I think being real and talking to another human being in a real conversation leads to a great deal more than a 30 second pitch. Sounds like there’s a tip in there somewhere, right?

I am so grateful to work with clients who are willing and interested in changing their lives as they make major or slight career changes. I will be posting success stories of my career coaching clients on an on-going basis. My aim is to provide hope and inspiration to others who are feeling stuck or discouraged. Life has a way of giving us what we want at odd times — and usually things don’t look exactly as we’d expected, but we get what we’d had in mind nonetheless. Sometimes we need to do some personal ‘resuscitation’ before any changes can occur in our work lives. Here’s a letter that I received from one of my clients shortly after we finished our work together:

Where do I begin? To put it lightly, you’ve done nothing less than help me to change my life. When we met I had been fired from my job of 15 years, was turning 40 and upset about where I was NOT in my life. Interviewing for a job sounded dreadful because I could not think about marketing my self to a new employer when I couldn’t sell myself to myself! I was creatively stagnant and in a funk.

Immediately I felt comfortable with you and found myself looking forward to our weekly conversations. Your suggested exercises and reading began the process of opening myself up again and exploring my creative side. I embarked on a self discovery path where I continue to grow emotionally, spiritually and creatively. You provided me with tools to recognize my strengths and weaknesses and the power to say NO and to get out of my own way!

Thank you for sharing a piece of yourself with me as well. You are a wonderful listener and your positive attitude is contagious. Thanks to your motivation and encouragement I am now learning to live by my values and break old behavior patterns. I am now anxious to enter the workforce again with a new outlook on life and happy to be 40! I look forward to our paths crossing again. Eternally grateful, T. Lemieux

Ready to get started and figure out what you really want your life to look like? Want to find the work and lifestyle that makes it easy to get out of bed for? Whether you’re just out of college, ready to retool yourself and your career, or looking to leave the ‘rat race’ completely, this workshop (done over the phone in teleclass * form) is for you!

JumpStart Job Search Bootcamp – New classes starting

As a result of years of working with clients to help them clarify their career direction and make the career changes they want to see, I’ve put together the tips and actions that can simplify this process — that’s what the JumpStart Job Search Bootcamp is about.

Teleclasses are a somewhat new phenomenon in the education world, and they work wonderfully – I’ve done many and find them to be really effective. This teleclass series enable this group of smart, capable participants to talk together conveniently without the hassle of getting in the car. Participants will learn techniques to sort through previous work and life experiences to formulate a new vision for their next steps in their career, and life, development. During my 15 years of working as a career counselor and coach I’ve consistently seen and heard clients longing to truly connect with their work, and seen it happen! Now, more than ever, the demands on our lives are so strenuous, it’s easy to get sidetracked and distracted so that knowing how to do an effective job search, and knowing what will really work, long term, is increasingly confusing. Think of this teleclass as an oasis of calm which enables participants to create a new vision of how life and work can work – hmmm, how would you like things to be if you could have them the way you wanted them?

I love helping clients take seriously what they want to achieve, even when it seems impossible to know what that is. We find what that is and create the route to get there! This can be the place to get energized and motivated to take the next steps to find what really works for you. Through a series of fun and interesting exercises, homework, and discussion, participants will emerge with a grounded and useful set of skills to use now or in the future to fine tune a job search to find and get the right work.

What you will get:

• Four 60 minute phone meetings on Weds. nights, starting on September 13th, from 7pm (Pacific).
• Class materials and resources to keep you moving forward and gaining clarity
• Energizing, motivating fun discussion, Daisy’s hallmark. If it’s not fun and engaging, why bother, right?
• Tools to create an excellent, sharp resume, and feedback from an experienced career coach who’s dedicated to your success. No need to hire a service to create this ‘marketing’ piece for you! Let your resume be the tool that effectively organizes how you present yourself to others.
• Unlimited support via email from Daisy during the weeks of the teleclass.
• The opportunity to hear how others make progress and overcome obstacles.

Participants will receive a bridge-line number to call prior to the first call.

The fee for the month of teleclasses is $149. Career coaching with a professional, seasoned career coach can cost anywhere from $300- $500 per month, so you receive a considerable cost reduction and a great value. This personalized class can make the difference in how you approach your life, your job search, and your goals to create a new lifestyle that really works the way you want it to — A worthwhile investment when you consider the return.

Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC works with clients as they choose and make sane, fulfilling and creative career and life transitions. She has been a career counselor and coach since 1991 and has been in private practice in Los Angeles since 1995. Daisy works with clients in a practical, creative, strategic and supportive way, guiding and encouraging clients as they clear their path to find their right way to live their lives. She has appeared on NBC’s daytime coaching show, Starting Over and has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Post regarding career and life changes.

* What is a Teleclass?

Teleclassses are a great way to have interactive training classes that are conducted over the telephone using the latest in teleconferencing ‘bridge’ systems. How does this work? Clients can participate from anywhere in the world and there’s no travel involved! All you need is a comfortable place to be on your regular phone! Note: The cost to call the bridge line, which connects everyone together on the call, is a standard long distance charge. You will only pay your long distance fees as usual.

Here are some guidelines to make everyone’s experience on the call a great one:

Dial the Conference Dial-In number that you receive via e-mail.
At the prompt, enter the PIN Code followed by #

• Use a land telephone for the best phone reception for you and for others in the class.
  Headsets can be used
  Cell phones can be used.
  No i nternet phones or speaker phones
  No cordless phones, speaker phones, internet phones
• Please disable the “Call Waiting” feature on your phone. To do this on most phones, dial *70. The “Call Waiting” feature is reinstated once you hang up.
• Please turn off the ringer on a second line if you have one.
• To mute or un-mute your individual phone line, press * 6.
• Please call in to the class on time so that the class can start on time with minimal interruption . We’ll all be introducing ourselves or saying hello when we begin classes.

Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC works with clients as they choose and make sane, fulfilling and creative career and life transitions. She has been a career counselor and coach since 1991 and has been in private practice in Los Angeles since 1995. Daisy works with clients in a practical, creative, strategic and supportive way, guiding and encouraging clients as they clear their path to find their right way to live their lives. She has appeared on NBC’s daytime coaching show, Starting Over and has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Post regarding career and life changes. For more information about Daisy, and her services please go to www.daisyswan.com!

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