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If you’re looking for inspiration to recharge your career, look no farther than Apolo Ohno’s 1500 meter Olympic performance. At 27, an age considered long in the tooth for a speedskater, Ohno not only won a silver medal, he proved he’s just as competitive as his younger rivals.

In the current economy, many seasoned employees are finding their careers plateaued or their job prospects slimming as they face stiff competition in the workplace. Here are four strategies that contributed to Apolo Ohno’s recent success and how you can apply them to your career.

Commit yourself. Ohno purposefully committed to a third Olympics because of his love for the sport, the Vancouver location, and his personal passion for excellence. That commitment fueled his drive forward through good days and bad.  Read more...

We’re one week into the New Year – the time when resolutions can start to fade. If this year you’re absolutely determined to do something about your career, take heart! Avoid becoming a career couch potato with your choice of four creative activities designed to inspire you to keep moving. They’re fun, easy – and they work! Betcha can’t try just one.  Read more...

I have pirates on the brain. Swashbuckling pirates. First there was Talk Like a Pirate day, then  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl   played a million times on cable and now I’ve got that pirate song stuck in my head. It’s the one they sing at the top of their lungs while happily hoisting mugs of grog:

“Yo ho, a pirate’s life for me!”

I ask you, who has a happier career than a pirate? No one. They are the poster children of career satisfaction.  And why? Because they are absolutely, positively, perfectly suited to being pirates.  It is not just that they have superior pirate skills or that they love their pirate job duties. Those things are important, but there’s more to it than that.   Read more...

As in Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad JOB SEARCH Days.

As in actually checking to see if email is down because apparently no one cares enough to even send you spam Days.  Or making sure your phone is working because you can’t remember the last time it rang Days.  Or having absolutely run out of ideas and not knowing what to do next Days. 

From the kid perspective,  Alexander’s day in Judith Viorst’s children’s book  Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day would seem to have lived up to its name. Gum in your hair? Terrible. Lima beans for dinner? Horrible. 

From the adult perspective, Very Bad JOB SEARCH Days are much, much worse than lima beans. And I say that as someone who has deep, personal experience with both.   Read more...