Category: Career

Reining in the Record Keeping

A Do Something Different Monday Check In

I’ve been working on my Do Something Different Monday (DSDM) activity and it’s time to report! In case you missed my Monday post, DSDM is NEW. Each Monday I pick an activity that’s been a real bear to wrangle and then work on it for the week. I give a quick check in on Thursdays—today—on progress (or maybe lack thereof). This week’s DSDM activity is making record keeping more efficient. Continue reading “Reining in the Record Keeping”

NEW SERIES—Do Something Different Mondays

Reining in the Record Keeping

Happy Monday all!  I’ve been inspired by an upcoming post to create a new series called Do Something Different Mondays (DSDM)!  Every Monday I will select an activity that I’ve been struggling with and make that activity the focus of attention, and hopefully improvement, for that week.  On Thursdays, I will check in with an update.  These will be shorter, no frills posts.  Today’s DSDM activity will be record keeping/filing at work.  Show of hands if you live for filling out paperwork, updating databases and wrapping up loose ends of a task completed—all while the pressure of the next urgent project is looming.  Anyway, below is the plan of action to accomplish this goal because as we know, a goal without a plan is just a wish!  And feel free to join me with this, or your own, mini challenge this Monday!  Continue reading “NEW SERIES—Do Something Different Mondays”

How Flipping The Script Is Helping My Career Path

A career update

I recently earned a promotion!  A promotion, to those who have been stuck in a career rut, is the fireworks to your Independence Day.  And while I am excited, I wanted to use this milestone to  circle back to a previous post about a plan I initiated a year and a half ago to restructure my broken professional life.  There are so many like me trying to figure out their next career steps and I believe that this plan is part and parcel the reason for my promotion.  As you know, I enjoy sharing the many forms pursuits in progress take.  Here are some key activities that I cultivated and eliminated over the last year and a half that helped me realize a much sought after goal.   Continue reading “How Flipping The Script Is Helping My Career Path”

Waiting For My Career To Come to Me

A risky but necessary strategy I’m taking in my not-so-mid 30s!

Like Martin Luther King Jr., I had a dream…but my butt woke the heck up before it finished! I planned my life around being a psychologist, which didn’t pan out, to say the least.  Check out this post for details.  Here I am now, woke and without a plan.  I still don’t know for certain what career I’ll end up in.  I’m done chasing random ideas out of desperation though.  Now, I’ve decided to go the route of waiting for my career to come to me.  I know, I know.  This strategy seems kind of risky considering I’m no spring chicken.  But it hasn’t let me down so far.  Read on if you’re curious, or if like me you’ve done the right things, at the right times and still got stuck in a career rut!

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Career Implosion

When even doing the right things, at the right times fails

At age 20, I felt solid in my decision to become a Psychologist.  The skepticism of my mother probably added fuel to my fire.  In case you didn’t know, I was a late bloomer to rebellion.  I knew it was the practicality of her West Indian heritage talking.  She was a nurse, and yes like the Headleys, she had more than one job!  My mother had suggested many times that I too should go into nursing; to her, it just made for better sense and business.  I got as far as being a Certified Nurse’s Aide, but that’s another conversation.

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