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Only 8 to 12% of us actually are successful with our New Year's Resolutions.  I want to share with you how you can make your 2014 New Year's Resolutions a reality.  We need to keep things simple and enjoy the process.  There are six simple steps in achieving success with your resolution. 1.  "Change the Name" - Move away from calling your 2014 goal a "resolution" .  Make it a name that is unique for you.  The name should help motivate you to move forward with your goal.  You may want to call it your Amazing Adventure, your Cause, your New Life Adventure  .....whatever motivates you.  Creating a "resolution" utilizing the word "resolution" can possibly set you up for failure.  With having not accomplished your "resolutions" in prior years, you may subconsciously associate "resolution" with lack of success.  Make your resolution fun and personalize it!  2. "Define your Ultimate Purpose" - You need t...

The hype! The build up!  The event! And.....  it is still only a 24 hour day.  The expectations and excitement of the big event - Christmas - can seem like a let down the day after.  Many go back to work the next day, have the joy of cleaning up, or returning gifts.   Then there is the fact you may have spent hours or even days decorating for this event only to see that you now have to put it away.  Depression or relief?  For this one event of the year many of us put in so much energy that it literally wears us out!  The big question for you is, "What Now?"  We build up so much energy into the holiday, that we may experience a huge let down.  We changed our rhythm in life and set ourselves on a pace of pure excitement and expectations.  Maybe we had family reunions with members of our family we haven't seen for a long time.  The joy of seeing each other and spending time was so wonderful or overwhelming.  It may hav...

The holidays are to be times of great joy and happiness, but for many they become a time of dread and even despair. Why is it that we find ourselves so stressed out during these times of year?  In the school setting we find an unique situation concerning students.  Many students who have "troubled" lives or experiences, do not like the holidays.  As vacations approach, these students become very agitated and disruptive.  Speaking with these students, I find that they do not want to be "stuck" at home and away from the one place they can find some aspect of peace.  They may not excel in school and even complain, but they actually find school to be a place of stability and support.  There are many students who "dread" summer vacation and actually seek ways to find themselves in summer school. Even some adults would rather work and be busy instead of facing the realities of the holidays.  Ba Humbug!   Why is it that we create...

Do you ever find that your days and weeks seem to get overwhelming?  Are you finding yourself feeling sluggish and underwhelmed?  How would you like to have 5 simple steps to make each day a positive event and full of joy?  The pressures of work, the holidays and life in general can seem daunting at times and we find ourselves in the negative end of the battery of life.  Lets move to the positive end of the battery! I want to truly help and created this special 5 step process all of us to follow.  The steps are simple and don't take much time at all.  In order to thank you for visiting this blog and to help you find joy in your day, I have a gift for you.  It is a 5 day challenge using 5 Simple Steps that will help you experience increased happiness at work and in life!  It really works.  These steps will help support you in achieving days full of happiness and new positive adventures.  Please visit my website at www.thetaj...

Through my various adventures in life, I just wrote on this topic on another blog www.savinglindsaylohanandkristenstewart.com .  Thought I would share excerpts of the other blog and apply it to your career and life.  I love the thought that one's perception of us is their reality.  Do you find this to be true?  Look at your social and work life.  Where do you see those times when others' reality of you was in fact untrue?  Why did this occur?  How is it affecting your career and your life? Individual's assumptions and our actions create perceptions.  These perceptions then become reality for the individuals who created the assumptions in the first place. You are faced with cameras throughout each day just as celebrities are via the "paparazzi".  The cameras are in the forms of others' eyes and perceptions they are creating for you, thus their realities of you.  Look at your past and see those moments when you were frustr...

Look at your life up to this point.  Where are you in life at this moment?  Where you are today is in fact determined by what you have done in the past.  You have worked to get yourself to this point in life through your prior decisions.  Think about your interviews that you have had.  One central question is to tell them a little about yourself.  You end up telling them what you have done, where you have been and why you are interviewing for the position.  Look at your life.  Ask yourself to tell yourself a little about yourself.  You are basically interviewing for the next chapter in your life.  Our life can be looked at as one big interview process.  We are constantly evaluating ourselves, working through our current situations and seeking answers in order to move forward.  We put ourselves in situations and then make decisions just like we answer situational questions in interviews.  Our life is in actuality one inte...

This week the analysis of the two quotes presented last week: "Judge less and live more!" "I don't believe in failure, only the lack of action." The two quotes are really quite simply pointing in the same direction.  How much time do you spend focused on what is going on around you instead of your dream, your career, your life?  We tend to judge what is going on around us instead of focusing on what we are seeking.  You have heard it before that if you believe you can achieve anything, you will achieve it.  Well, stop for a second and see what you have achieved.  We need to break down the quotes and see how they in fact reflect the reality of success. Energy is the key component to everything you do.  It takes energy to think, eat, run, scream, write, use the computer, breath, to do anything.  When we spend our time "judging" others, we are expending energy that could be used to help us achieve our goals.  Why spend energy focusing on ...

My two newest quotes that I would like to ponder: "Judge less and live more!"  Jeffrey Lund 2013 "I don't believe in failure, only the lack of action."  Jeffrey Lund 2013 Okay.  I wrote these based off of a few things that happened this past week.  I am going to write about these quotes and how you can use them to help with your life and career.  How to understand your actions and the results they create.  I met with an individual this week and discussed how today determines tomorrow. Are you interested in my thoughts?   I am going to publish my thoughts this next week on these two quotes.  Please think about them and make some notes.  Contact me if you wish with some thoughts and I will add to my next post.  Together lets find out how this can help you in your career.  I know how it can, but want you to think it through first.  Enjoy the quotes and I hope they make you think.

In my last entry I wrote about the question of what would you do if you could wake up everyday and do what you wanted or enjoyed.  In this section I want to discuss the answer to what is holding you back.  This seems to be one of the biggest questions I receive about "What Now?"  It can be discouraging when there seems to be an endless process of not enjoying life to the fullest.  How many people do you know who always dream about Friday?  They hate Mondays?  They wish their lives away?  What if they savored each day and enjoyed their life and career to the fullest?  What about you? What is holding you back?  We can start with the smaller items such as education, skills, experience or a lack of network.  The issue comes in when we need to determine which of these is really the issue that is holding us back from obtaining our ultimate career or lifestyle we seek.  Research is the key to solving these smaller issues.  Take some...

What would you do? How often do you wake up and dread heading off to work?  What would you change if you could change something?   Think back to when you were a child.  What was it that you thought you would be when you grew up?  Did you make it?  Most did not seek that path they dreamed about as a child, but found that life took them on a different path.  There are some who wake up everyday enjoying what they do and have even fulfilled their childhood dream.  But, what about you? I remember giving a guest lecture to a marketing class at the University of Northern Colorado some years ago.  I asked the students what their degrees were going to be.  Since it was an upper level marketing class, most were on track for a marketing degree of some sort.  This class happened to be a market analysis course and I assumed many were going to work in some type of marketing firm or what have you.  I then asked them to think of their hobb...

We send the resume', fill out the application, know someone or somehow we get ourselves into a job /career interview.  Here comes the question, "What Now?"  We may find ourselves excited, nervous, wondering and more.  Would you like a tool that provides you a quick reference in order to improve your interview skills?  Want to increase the opportunity to get a second interview or offer? It seems as though weekly I am discussing job and career adventures with individuals and seeking ways to improve their job / career search.  Recently as I was visiting with an individual, he informed me that he has been attempting to get a job in his field for the past two years.  I asked him why he thought he wasn't successful in his attempts.  He explained that he gets several interviews, but never gets a call back or an offer.  I asked him what he thought the issue was?  He stated that he had no idea and was looking for some s...

  What do you own that is of the most value to you?   Recently I have been receiving inquiries from around the world seeking answers for "life changes". The inquiries weren't about money or material items, but about life. We all are seeking that answer to who we are and what we are.  Do you find yourself waking daily seeking the answer to a different path in life?  Are you questioning your life's value?  You are most likely experiencing some inner dissatisfaction, drive, calling, redefinition of purpose, or just seeking to find You.  Many years ago I came across a quote: Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once                                              Lilli...

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Life is a never ending course full of obstacles, surprises and hurdles.  Do we create these in our relationships with others?  It is amazing how we get so caught up in ourselves that we neglect our loved ones.  This happens all too frequently in our relationships even when we believe that we are the experts in love and living.  It catches up to us and we can't even see it coming.  I am reminded of an episode of Cheers involving Dr. Frasier Crane and Lilith.  She admitted to Frasier that she had an affair.  Frasier realizes how he had not worked on the relationship and was caught up in himself and life around him.  He shares his realization only to find that Lilith is moving on.  She decides to live with her colleague with whom she has fallen in love with.  Watch the episode and you will get the idea: Season 11 - The Girl in the Plastic Bubble. The point is, we all tend to neglect or have the hardest time sharing wit...

I am sure that after the 0-6 start for the NY Football Giants, fans and the organization are questioning the, "What Now?"  The initial reaction any time an individual or organization is struggling, is to begin to blame.  The organization begins to look at the personnel involved and begins to question what to do. The radio hosts and news  outlets are feeding fans with their "blaming" analysis.  The players are questioning the coaches and each other.  It is a "blame game" feeding frenzy out there! The Giants have very good people in place on and off the field.  So, the quick fix might feel like they need personnel changes.  This kind of reaction can create some initial changes, but tends to not be sustainable.   In reality there is a more simplified solution that can help the organization realize the success it has had over recent years.  The problem the team is facing now, is the creation of habit.  They begin to ...

Give this one a try.  Wake up tomorrow and scream, "This is going to be the greatest day of my life!"  You may disturb the dog, your loved ones and even awake the ghosts in the house, but what you will be doing is setting your mind on a positive track for the day.  What we establish as we start our day is our frame of mind.  How are we going to interact with others at work and at home?  Will what we bring to the day that influences those around us?   In my book, "Tennis Everyone! An Empowering Way to Improve Your Interactions with Others", I discuss how there is an Attitude Set to our game.  From the book: Attitude Set       When we play a game, we bring with us a certain attitude or drive.   Setting your attitude can really make a big difference in any interaction you encounter.   Practicing attitude is essential while remembering to keep it simple and to not overplay it.   I may have covered...

  "Look around you and the colors come to life as the trees change for the upcoming winter ahead.  The trees have found a way to celebrate change through a display of brilliant colors.  We are faced with change daily, but do we display an array of colors?  How often do we dwell on the changes, but not on the great adventure that lies ahead? Championing change is quite a unique concept.  It means to step forward and take on the change that is in front of you.  We need to embrace the change with enthusiasm and learn to turn that possible obstacle into the wonderful opportunity.  As we find ourselves with less and yet expected to do more, we need to work together to find positive solutions.  We can become that vibrant tree of color just by taking a positive approach to what lies ahead.  A s you see the changes around you, find time to look for the positive outcome that you can help create.   We have a choice each and every day. ...