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Work Ideas for Older People

Work Ideas for Older People

Yes, many older people find their last work years challenging, whether employed or looking for remunerative work. Perhaps one or more of the ideas in my PsychologyToday.com article today will help.

Musical Nuggets to Calm, Rejuvenate, Inspire

Especially in our stressful times, music is essential: as balm, as inspiration, as healing.

To wit, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers a trip through the centuries with the music that most moves me and I hope you. Each title embeds a link to a premier performance of it.

The Ten Guidelines: The Ten Commandments aren't worthy of commandment st...

The Ten Guidelines: The Ten Commandments don't deserve commandment status.

The Ten Commandments are the most governing principles of all time, but do they really deserve to be articles of (ahem) faith?

My PsychologyToday.com article today argues that none of them do.

Sermonette on the Mound

Sermonette on the Mound: Some of the Sermon on the Mount's advice for living warrants scrutiny

The Sermon on the Mount, is, according to New Testament scholar, Luke Timothy Johnson, ‘the essence of Christianity.” Although Jesus is said to have given the Sermon 2,000 years ago, millions of people still aspire to follow its exhortations. 

I am a career and personal coach. From that perspective and at the risk of sacrilege, I believe that a number of the Sermon’s urgings are inimical to career and personal success and contentment, even if construed in the loftiest sense. To that end, in response to 10 statements in the Sermon on the Mount, I offer as my PsychologyToday.com article today, given my far lowlier perch and status, a Sermonette on the Mound.

Because this is Psychology Today, I focus not on the sermon’s deistic aspects, only on its advice for living.

The One: A movie theme for a November romance

32 Inconvenient Career Truths

32 Inconvenient Career Truths

We career counselors and coaches are too often guilty of puffing our clients, feeling it’s wiser or at least more comfortable to err on the side of optimism. No doubt, that feels good to both counselor and client...at least in the short-term.

But I offer as my PsychologyToday.com article today, based on my three decades, 5,400 clients, and 95+% client-satisfaction rate, what I believe to be inconvenient career truths for the average job seeker.