Free Career Advice
Discover free career advice and strategies from Barb Garrison with Internal Groove.
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Cultivating Balanced Energy for Your Job Search
Losing a job unexpectedly can leave you with a pile of negative emotions. Here, I will share an effective strategy for cultivating balanced energy before starting a new job search. (Of course, it’s a strategy that can be used anytime you’re feeling overwhelmed with negative emotions).
Is Celebration One of Your Coping Skills?
How do your coping skills measure up when you’re feeling stressed out, overwhelmed, frustrated, or otherwise compromised? In this audio clip, I’ll give you a simple and fun formula for upleveling your coping skills.
Self-Management Skills for Making Work Fun
How are your self management skills? If you are an entrepreneur, then you know how important it is to have good ones. In this audio clip, I’ll clue you in on two of my best strategies for cultivating the entrepreneurial mindset and making work fun.
Creative Solutions, Personal Strengths and Natural Gifts
Creative solutions abound when you use your personal strengths and natural gifts. In this audio clip, I’ll give you some great questions to ask yourself to discover your innate gifts and get on the path to career satisfaction.
How to Trust the Process When Bad Things Happen
Knowing how to trust the process when life throws you a curveball is an indispensable life skill. Take a listen here and get a wonderful nugget of insight into how you can see the bright side of any situation.
One Step At A Time
Doing new things can bring up fear and excitement. Test this effective perspective for understanding these emotions, and learn to use them as fuel to propel you toward your goals.
Optimizing Your Strengths and Talents
Are you optimizing your strengths and talents? Chances are, you have overlooked these two simple ways to increase your productivity and your life satisfaction.
The Mindset of an Entrepreneur
Do you have the mindset of an entrepreneur? If you’re not sure, I’ll give you one big tip on how you can start to find the answer in this video clip.
Making Authentic Connections
Does the idea of networking make you cringe? Maybe you are going about it the wrong way. In this clip, I’ll explain how you can shift your mindset so selling your product or service doesn’t feel pushy.
Creative Research is a Critical Component of a Good Job Search
If you’re in a job search, it’s important that you spend time on creative research. Here, I’ll offer you some insight into the ins and outs of effective research so you can get hired.
Your Values List and Your To Do List
Does your to-do list keep getting longer while your values list is left in the dust? If you feel like you’re in a never ending battle to get to the end of your to do list so you can get to the things that really matter to you, consider this refreshing perspective.
Standing in Your Truth As An Entrepreneur
Do you have the entrepreneurial bone? Standing in your truth means acknowledging whether you do or not, and seeking work that allows you to shine. In this clip, I’ll share some insights on this topic.
Transforming Life One Day At A Time
Are you interested in growing your business or transforming your life? If so, getting into the habit of planning for these three things at the end of every day will help keep you on track.
Your Self Love Language
What is your self love language? If self love seems like a foreign concept to you, you may need to listen to this!
Networking Tools and Authentic Connections
The most successful entrepreneurs use their networking tools to make authentic connections. In this clip, I’ll offer some advice on just how to go about doing that.
Compiling Your Personal Strengths List
Do you have a solid list of personal strengths? Most people overlook a lot when building theirs. You’ll learn some of the best places to look in this insightful nugget.
Your Current List of Values
Are you working with an outdated list of values? If so, you may be experiencing frustration. Get some insight here about how you can start to create more workflow efficiency in your life and career.
Streamline Your Workflow Processes
Are your workflow processes as efficient as they could be? Learn an unexpectedly simple way to optimize your productivity in this audio clip.