Gold Nugget Coaching

There are times when we get so overwhelemed with a problem that we can’t seem to find our way out. I often see this when people are worried about a problem or situation that’s important to them, such as a challenge at work, their career, or in their personnel life.

Just when you most want to see things clearly, your thoughts just go around and around: What if this happens? What if that happens? What if I do X and they do Y? What if they do A and B and I do J, K and L?  On and on it goes.

Many times, you wind up even more frustrated and confused than when you started, and mentally exhausted. Here’s an easy and invaluable tool you can use to cut through all that mental chatter, CALM DOWN, and tap into your own wisdom.

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You can super-charge your career like magic. Are you skeptical about that?

OK. Imagine that we’re together in your kitchen. What would you say if I told you I can make a glass of water rise up from the table, travel through the air, move across room, and be deposited into my hand, without spilling a drop, and without me budging an inch?

What do you have to say about that, really?

• “Impossible!”
• “Dr. Steve is incredible; he can do anything.” (only kidding)
• “Yeah sure! I can’t wait to see it happen.”

What is your reaction?

Take 10 to 20 seconds to think about it and then continue on.

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The burned-out feeling that many mid-career workers are experiencing has been given a name: “middlescence” (see March 2006 Harvard Business Review, “Managing Middlescence” by Robert Morison, Tamara Erickson, and Ken Dyctwald). If you’re in the throes of middlescence, it may feel like an overwhelming malaise or a deep downward spiral.

There are definitely things you can do to break the malaise or spiral but, admittedly, many of the remedies can take asome time and commitment. However, I propose that there is one amazingly simple—and incredibly healthy—thing you can start doing immediately to break out of the middlescence rut.

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If you don’t already know it, I live in an old gold mining town in the Colorado Rockies. I talked a bit more about it in my bio. One of the things that I love about living here is that there are still old cowboys and miners around and they have great stories to tell. I bumped into one of them yesterday. Norm is an old gold miner. He started mining in the Great Depression. And he shared with me and some friends the secret of finding gold as he pulled a solid gold bar out of his pocket.

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I was browsing the blogosphere tonight and came across a post on CareerHub that got me thinking about some things. I’d like to share some valuable coaching with you that can make an enormous difference in your career and in your life.

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