Sometimes the women I coach ask, “are you saying fake it till I make it?”  Absolutely not!  For one, I never coach people to lie.  That just creates anxiety.  And two, it doesn't actually change the way we feel about ourselves.  In fact, it keeps us stuck in the false belief system that we can’t say we can do something until we’ve actually done it.  Instead, we must learn to look for and acknowledge every bit of confirming evidence that we...

Among the best all time opening lines of a novel is Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”  Our careers, it turns out, are no different.  If we are unhappy at work, we have to discover why.  And the best way to do that is to create a personal career vision.  Looking at our careers through the lens of what has meaning and purpose to us helps us get where we want to go, and recognize it as the...