by Meredith Walters | Jun 10, 2015 | Blog, Exercises, Resources
I used to envy the people who always knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. It didn’t matter if their dream was to be a firefighter, doctor, or garbage collector—it was the certainty I craved, not the career itself. Whenever somebody asked me as a child what...
by Meredith Walters | May 27, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
In my last blog post, I wrote about the benefits of trusting your gut. I claimed that your somatic—or gut—intelligence, when combined with your feelings and intellect, provides everything you could ever want in a state-of-the-art guidance system. I alleged that by...
by Meredith Walters | May 13, 2015 | Blog, Common Challenges, Exercises
It goes something like this: You’re unhappy with your work. Then one day, you have an idea for a better job. You get excited about the idea, and you start to explore it. At some point in your exploration you discover potential drawbacks. You feel less excited. ...
by Meredith Walters | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Common Challenges, Fear
I was talking to a client recently who had a sense that what she really wanted was simply not possible for her. Either her dream job didn’t exist or she didn’t have the qualifications for it or there was no way it would pay her enough to live on. She could think of a...
by Meredith Walters | Apr 1, 2015 | Blog, Career Change
Almost anyone who has tried to make a significant change in their life has felt stuck at one point or another. I talk to people all the time who: Desperately want to make a career change but can’t get themselves to take any action. Go over and over possible next steps...