Happen To Your Career | Career Transition, Career Changes, Figure Out What You Want, Jobs, Strengths, Starting Businesses

As far as I know perfection doesn’t exist because it’s subjective. This of course means that if we are after perfection, then we are already setting ourselves up for failure. Now here’s the deal. The people we work with are often pretty highly self aware people. Even still they (and me too, many times) don’t recognize when we’re having moments of perfectionism that are holding us back.

t’s easy to think about the weaknesses that could hold you back from your next career move, but research shows high achievers focus most on their strengths. Learn how to reframe the weaknesses in your life as “anti-strengths” and find a career that was made for you—strengths and anti-strengths included.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/257   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Hit a roadblock on finding career happiness? Hear how practicing perseverance landed Dan his dream career interviewing celebrities like Donald Trump, Tony Robbins, Rachel Ray, and Chelsea Handler.   Read his full story at https://happentoyourcareer.com/256   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Are you interested in becoming a career coach? Have you wondered what it's really like and what it really takes? Scott is joined by Phillip Migyanko and Lisa Lewis of HappenToYourCareer.com with a behind-the-scenes talk about becoming a career coach. Want to find out even more about how to become a career coach and career coach certifications? Visit Here https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/lp/career-coach-coaching-certification/  

If money was no object, what would your retirement plan look like? What if you found a career that enabled you to live out your retirement plans NOW, as your daily job? Learn how Kristy found true career happiness by designing her ideal career and pitching it to the CEO of one of her dream organizations. What you’ll learn  How to use signature strengths to design your ideal career    How to know if you can find career happiness with your current company  The trick to push yourself to step out of your comfort zone, and why it’s so important    Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes How to Figure Out What You Really Want (Spotify / Apple Podcast) Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / A

You’re not still rocking your high school hairstyle, so why restrict yourself to the job you thought you wanted way back then? It’s time to step out of your teenage shadow and give yourself permission to seek a career outside the bounds of your college major.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/254   To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

What challenges will you have when making a career change in your 30s? Or secret advantages when you’re 40? What about “imagined” challenges at 20? Find out what to do to about it!   https://happentoyourcareer.com/career-change-at-30-20-40-and-50

Sure. Feeling safe and at ease is great and all, but what goals have you ever achieved by staying in your comfort zone??   We’re willing to bet on not many at all.   Nobody ever achieves much by staying in their comfort zone.   WHY?   Well, achieving goals requires you to aim for something just a little bitout of your reach.   Having a goal makes you look forward to something attainable that may not be in your comfort zone (at the moment).   Then the question of how to get out of your comfort zone comes up.   When it comes to career change, more likely than not you’ll be faced with the choice to break out of your comfort zone to progress down a new path that may be full of unknowns.

Like Gabby Douglas’ leap from underdog to olympic medalist, Linnea leapt from Marketing Manager to Senior VP—in only six months! Learn the full immersion techniques that helped Linnea stick the landing on career happiness.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/250 To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories, find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Long before you even begin thinking about going on an interview, you need to get into the right mindset. This accounts for nearly 80% of your interview success! Having a confident, present mindset allows you to head into your future interviews with ease. It channels your nerves (those sweaty palms and racing heart) into excitement instead. And, it allows you to be yourself. In order to get into this mindset though, you have to know yourself well, and respect your past experiences. You need to understand your career equity. And, that takes introspection. That introspection doesn’t come overnight either. It’s a practice that builds up over time, which is why “cramming” for interviews isn’t effective. Being true self in an interview comes down to self-development.

Did you know there are 3 primary ways to start a business, and each is tailored to specific personalities? Listen to learn which business recipe fits your unique disposition.   Find the guide, transcript, and more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/248   For even more stories of how High Achievers find career happiness find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Ever feel like you’re headed on a career trajectory that you don’t even want anymore? The 5-year plan worked in an age when pensions existed, but today, the working world has changed. You don’t have to take the one-way street. You can make u-turns, take on-ramps and off-ramps, and even create your own, never-before-seen path to career happiness. And we can help you do it.   Listen to our interview with Maxie McCoy, author of You’re Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way, to find out the simple secret to finding a career you love.

    What happens when you’re already in a good work and life situation but what you really want is to be in an “ideal” situation? For example: What if you have a career you love, get paid well, have great relationships… but you recognize it could even be better. We’ve learned by working with thousands of people that to get to lead a life most people will never lead, you have to do things most people wouldn’t be willing to do. While this can range from doing the hard work to figure out what your ideal life looks like to contacting hard to reach people, it always means doing things many others are unwilling to do. For Robbie, who had a great role in DC with a great company, this meant getting away to get new experiences and clarity on what she wanted for her next chapter in her life. It also meant designing a sabbatical that was both fun, uncomfortable, scary and fulfilling a 5 year dream of a multi month road trip around the continental US. Our team got the pleasure of helping her design this experiment leadin

Do you worry that it’s not possible to make money and do work that you enjoy? This has been one of the most common questions we get at happen to your career. This topic causes more worries, anxieties, and questions about salary than nearly anything else. We’ve learned that it doesn’t work the way that you think it does. Learn the realities (and possibilities) about when you should accept less when making a career change. Find the episode and guide here at https://happentoyourcareer.com/245 Listen to all the episodes at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Want to know how to avoid getting lost in the application stuck when there's 30,50 or 200 people applying? Learn some examples of convincing approaches that you can use right now. find the entire conversation at https://happentoyourcareer.com/244 or all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Robert was an executive earning great money, and enjoying life and work, when he was unexpectedly laid off. At first he believed he would be able to easily make a career change, but months went by with no job offers and he began questioning everything. We’re sharing a rare opportunity to listen in to an actual coaching session with Robert as we systematically uncover what’s working for him and what’s not.    What you’ll learn  The 3 biggest mistakes we see for “High Performers” who are in the midst of a career change How career change coaching sessions actually work  What to do when you aren’t receiving any responses during your career search     Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes Changing Careers (When

It happens to all of us: you’re cruising along (in your career, your relationship, your health, whatever). You put your destination into the GPS, started following the directions on autopilot, and you’re fiddling with the music on the radio, take your eyes off the road for what only feels like a moment, and WHAM. A pothole — seemingly out of nowhere — opens up and practically swallows your car tire, leaving you feeling trapped and helpless. You were minding your own business, not paying attention, and all of a sudden, you’re stuck with a blown-out tire in the middle of the highway, watching other cars pass you by. If you’re the kind of person who’s usually self-sufficient, a high achiever who did pretty well in school, this kind of situation is particularly frustrating. “How did this happen? How did I end up here…and where do I go from here?” If those questions are ones you’ve pondered at any point in your life, then keep reading. We have a heck of a podcast for you all about unconscious mindsets and how to g

Imagine this scene: you’re driving to the office, and you feel your stomach tighten up. It’s not like butterflies, it’s more like anxious nerves starting to kick into high gear. You park, hesitate for a moment in the car before walking up to the building, sigh, and wonder to yourself, “Do I really *have* to today?” But if you’re anything like the thousands of people we’ve helped, there’s a part of your brain that probably also pipes up and says: “Appreciate what you have! This is a stable job with good benefits, is impressive to other people, and gives you vacation and sick leave. And leaving would have huge consequences on your family, your mortgage payments…what would you even do instead?” Or, even more scary: “What if I change jobs and it’s worse?” It makes it really painful to start to answer the question: Should I Quit My Job? But it doesn’t have to be. Here are four questions to help you weigh the Pros and Cons of quitting your job — versus some of the possible potential upside of staying. Check out the

On this week’s episode of The Happen To Your Career Podcast, four-time NYT bestselling author Gretchen Rubin dives into the science behind unmet resolutions, the anchor holding you back from your side gig, and the reason one “right way” might be...well...bullshit. A seasoned podcaster, she regularly co-hosts the Happier Podcast where she provides tips for making and breaking habits and success strategies for each personality type.   In her latest book, The Four Tendencies, Gretchen explains a personality framework involving, as you would guess, four tendencies. Each identified type is characterized by their tendency to respond to inner expectations and outer expectations. (Inner expectations being those you set on yourself—like New Year’s resolutions; outer expectations being those put on you by friends, coworkers, family, etc.)

What if you could take the very small parts of your past jobs that you love the very most, and spend most of your day doing those things that you were great at and made you happy? That’s what it’s like to work in your strengths. The more that we use our strengths in a day, the less likely we are to feel stressed, worried, angry or sad! Finding your strengths makes it easier to discover exactly what you want out of your career and life.   What you’ll learn  The answer to the very common question “How do strengths really work?” Whether or not strengths change over time  How to find your strengths and focus on your key strengths   Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email scott@happentoyourcareer.com    Free Resources What career fits you? Join our free 8 Day Mini Course to figure it out!  Career Change Guide - Learn how high-performers discover their ideal career and find meaningful, well-paid work without starting over.   Related Episodes Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal