by Meredith Walters | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog, Career Change, Exercises
If you still aren’t doing work you love, you’ve probably developed a good story about what you’re missing in order to explain why that is. Maybe it’s that you don’t have enough time, money, or energy to find work you’d enjoy. Perhaps it’s that you don’t have the right...
by Meredith Walters | Nov 29, 2016 | Blog, Exercises, Purpose
Some people know their life’s purpose from an early age. I am not one of them. For me, purpose was more like a spleen: I knew I had one, and I recognized that it was probably helpful, but I had no clear idea of what it was or how it worked. As a result, it seemed...
by Meredith Walters | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” –Madeleine L’Engel When I was 12, I wrote a novel. I don’t really remember what I was thinking at the time. I had written a few short stories, then ventured a longer piece that filled up an entire notebook. My best...
by Meredith Walters | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog, Exercises, Featured, Uncategorized
We all have them: powerful capabilities bestowed by some freak accident that give us the power to vanquish evil and save the world. Okay, or—perhaps more likely for most of us—they’re incredible talents that we were born with under more normal circumstances, and that...
by Meredith Walters | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog, Career Change
It’s not easy to find the work you’re meant to do in the world. You have to get to know yourself really well. You have to become willing to make mistakes and risk failure. And you have to take tentative, often awkward steps into the unknown. That is, if you even know...
