by Meredith Walters | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog, Career Change, Resources
Let me start by saying that I don’t love career aptitude tests. By all means, take my opinion with a grain of salt. I’m no expert in career aptitude tests and am not familiar with all the hundreds of different ones out there. Everything I know about job quizzes and...
by Meredith Walters | May 24, 2016 | Blog, Career Change, Common Challenges
“After observing O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, sparring with an accomplished fighter, a young student said to the master, ‘You never lose your balance. What is your secret?’ ‘You are wrong,’ O Sensei replied. ‘I am constantly losing my balance. My skill lies in my...
by Meredith Walters | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Purpose
Want to know something about me that most people don’t? I’ve been to jail…3 times in all. Spending a total of 4 nights and 5 days behind bars. That makes it sound kind of like a luxury vacation which, I can assure you, it most certainly was not. In fact, I think...
by Meredith Walters | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Common Challenges, Fear, How to Make Decisions
“My mind is a bad neighborhood that I try not to go into alone. –Anne Lamott I know how easy it is to get stuck in your head. When my brain isn’t churning with thoughts, memories, worries, plans, analyses, or trying to figure something out, it’s attempting to...
by Meredith Walters | Apr 12, 2016 | Blog, Career Change
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.” — Ursula K. Le Guin I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that in today’s mainstream culture, we don’t tend to value questions very much. What we really want is answers. As such, we don’t pay much...
