Next Chapter New Life

Voluntarily changing careers can be a frightful thing for many people. It can be so frightening that it will delay or completely stop us in our tracks before we even get started.  Yet, our heart yearns for something else, something more than what we have right now.  Our heart knows that there is a better [...]

Susan L. Reid Perhaps you have heard of Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon.  No?  Well, I am sure you will remember him as soon as I tell you he was the one who penned the popular quote, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”  Does [...]

Susan L Reid What’s the big deal about starting up a home-based business? Isn’t it enough that you’ve put up a website, are passionate about your product, and been on Oprah? In short, no. There is an art and science to business success that’s critical for home-based business owners to know, understand, and utilize if [...]

Susan L Reid So, fess up. You’ve been gazing over the career fence from your place on the job side and finding the grass greener on the entrepreneurial side. You’ve been having those “be your own boss” dreams again, haven’t you? Well, if you’ve always worked for someone else, the grass on the other side [...]

I’ve recently started seeing and talking to a number of people with huge list’s of changes and issues going on in their life.  All are pressing, all are “A” priorities and most of them have a hefty emotional component to them.  The result is people that are stressed and overwhelmed.  People in this situation often [...]

On CAREER Solutions: Next Chapter New Life, internet talk radio show, we hosted Brian Kurth to discuss Career Change.  Brian formed Vocation Vacations as a means of matchmaking role models in all kinds of industries with people clamoring to try a new profession – without jumping over the metaphorical cliff.  The idea is brilliant.  He [...]

After all the hard work and effort, you finely landed the job.  The anxiety about what’s going to happen next is gone and you’re relieved that you can stop updating your resume.  Now that you have a job and you’re about to start next Monday, you’re starting to feel the sheer terror of what you [...]

This week, in CAREER Solutions: Next Chapter New Life, we heard the insights that Chris Benson shared with us on his journey from the Corporate World to owner of his own successful business (Geeks-A-Knockin). Career change can be a frightening thing for some people as it causes us to face many fears like failure, pay [...]

When we think of habits, most of us think of things like working out, brushing our teeth and the route we take home from work.  Yet, habits also include our attitudes, emotions and our own rationale.  That includes fear.  Many of the things we fear are of our own making.  Sometimes the fear is paralyzing [...]

I’ve recently started seeing and talking to a number of people with huge list’s of changes and issues going on in their life.  All are pressing, all are “A” priorities and most of them have a hefty emotional component to them.  The result is people that are stressed and overwhelmed.  People in this situation often [...]