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Your Best Work

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Overnight Success

Two years ago, while scanning the local entertainment scene for something different to do on my husband’s birthday, I found just the kind of event I had in mind at the MIM Music Theater in Phoenix. While unfamiliar with the artist, I was intrigued by the concert description. I liked her attitude. I liked her leather jacket. I liked her story of being rediscovered late in her career. And when I watched Bettye LaVette’s performance of the Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” at the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors, I clicked “buy tickets.” Read more

8 Ways to Hang Out with Your Role Models

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Who Moves You?

Today I bring you installment #5 in our summer series on motivation. Most of the strategies we’ve covered so far are things you can do to move yourself, both internally (to stay inspired) and externally (to make progress). Now let’s consider the people who move you. Read more

Rise Up!

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Cream Rises

I don’t recall the actual achievement – just that it was some form of recognition I had received at work. It might have been an accolade from a customer. Or maybe it was a promotion. Yes, a long overdue promotion, that sounds good. Let’s go with that. Read more

Don’t Get Used to This

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Barely Getting By

Remember your first job, first apartment, and living paycheck to paycheck? In the beginning, just being able to make rent and survive in the real world feels like enough — and it is, until you learn that there is something more beyond merely surviving. Read more

Kind of or Absolutely?

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Watch Your Language

The other day I was helping my client Debbie¹ update her resume. The financial services company she works for is going through layoffs, and Debbie is in job search mode. Her long-term goal is to get into healthcare technology, and she is enrolled in a certification program. As we considered her audience and how to gear her resume, we discussed that one logical route to an immediate job is to look for something similar to what she’s doing now: customer service with a financial company. Then Debbie slipped in the comment, “Well, I wouldn’t mind finding a healthcare position now.” Read more

The Promise You Make to Yourself

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Introduction

I first ran today’s article four years prior to launching InTheCurrent.com. Since then, I’ve come to see even more clearly that regardless of the particular goal you might be working on at any given time, the pivotal moment happens earlier and is bigger than the goal itself. It involves a promise you make to yourself on a very deep level. Sometimes this promise is a subconscious one, yet bringing it up to your awareness gives it even more power. Why is this important? Because when you fail at certain goals or your plans get derailed, connecting with this deeper promise will be the difference between giving up and opening up.

Enjoy the article and feel free to share your promise with me. —Ginny Read more

It’s Okay To Want More

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Even When You’re 95

Last Monday I placed a birthday call to my Aunt Louise who turned 95. We reminisced about a variety of things including the first time her husband asked her out on a date and the full wardrobe of handmade clothes she made for my Barbie dolls when I was a child — so detailed and fashionable that I never coveted the manufactured Barbie clothes advertised on TV. Read more

Don’t Wait For The Ducks

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Her Free Spirited Side

Karen was on her way to the airport after a meeting, with two hours to spare before her flight.  In a split-second decision, she drove thirty minutes out of her way just to have a quick visit to the beach.  As her feet crossed the sand and met the water, she reveled in having claimed some playtime.  “I was totally laughing at myself.  It felt great to let the free-spirited side of my personality free.”  Her time at the beach only lasted twenty minutes before she had to head to the airport but that was all she needed to feel free.  It wasn’t something she was accustomed to allowing during a workday, yet the fact that she had done it so easily this time let her know she could do it again. Read more

Becoming A Master Dreamer (Series Wrap Up)

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Notes on Dreaming

We’ve been exploring the subject of dreaming.  Here’s a recap of the series: Read more

Let Your Dream Inform You

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(#4 in the series: Are You A Dreamer?)

Are Dreams Lofty or Practical?

Sometimes dreams already exist inside (As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to…) whereas other times you consciously develop a dream (In a few years, I can picture being…).  In either case, exactly what are you supposed to do with a dream once you have one? Read more