Author: Carlota

So, you want an MBA: 6 steps to making your MBA work for you!

  It’s September, and many of us are thinking about how to change our lives in ways, big and small. One very popular method, is to get your MBA. If you’re contemplating getting your MBA, or if you’re currently enrolled in business school, and want to ensure that your financial sacrifice has the desired positive impact upon…
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September 7, 2015 0

Back to School

Wasn’t the Fourth of July just, like, last week? How exactly is it September 1, 2015?? I’m not one of those adults who walk around wishing they could be a kid again–yeah, I really want to experience the joy of junior high gym, allllll over again–but what I do miss from childhood, is the sense…
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September 1, 2015 0

Keeping up with yourself

Yesterday, on our 7th (…wow, where has the time gone…!) small business podcast, my co-host Marie Segares and I, talked about the destructive lure of comparing yourself to…well, anyone but yourself. When I started this business, in 2008, I wasted a lot of time comparing myself to other entrepreneurs and other coaches, to people who had been…
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August 18, 2015 0

Ain’t nothing but a party!

If you’re thinking about getting a better job, but find the process so overwhelming, that you keep putting it off, saying to yourself, “Right after Labor Day, sh*t gets real,” well, that’s one way (highly stressful) to do it, I guess. Me personally, if I keep putting stuff off, it ends up looming over me,…
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August 16, 2015 0

Titles don’t matter.

This morning, lying in bed reading my Twitter feed, as an 8-week-old rescued kitten* walked back and forth across my face, squeaking, I read this story about Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates. Brandi Lee is the Pennsylvania beauty queen recently arrested for pretending to have cancer, so she could scam her friends and family out of thousands of dollars.…
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August 12, 2015 0

The tyranny of goals

“Life hack: Stop spending so much time looking for life hacks.”- Rex Huppke It’s Sunday morning, and if you hate your job, this can be truly be the lowest point of your existence. Tomorrow’s Monday, the start of another week doing something you loathe, another week of your life wasted. Sunday evening, for many people, is truly a…
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August 9, 2015 0

Being selfish is part of the job.

They are certain types of clients who hire me to help them become more selfish. There are certain types of clients who, when I start talking about how they’re going to have to become selfish to achieve their goals, become almost orgasmic regarding my use of the word, “selfish.” They move in close, lock their…
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August 6, 2015 0

On restraining orders & self-sabotage

Oh, I know: just that very title might make you take a step back and think,”Um, okay…,” but stay with me for a second here. If you are in the process of changing your life,  and you’re lucky enough to be surrounded by friends and family who aren’t threatened by your progress, but instead celebrate…
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August 2, 2015 0

Eyes Wide Shut

I have a coaching client who, after being “wooed” for an extended period by a potential new employer, finally had the necessary come-to-Jesus meeting with the management team, to hash out all the final details. Except that the more she and the new team tried to clear up the so-called “minor” details, the more it…
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July 29, 2015 0

Your LinkedIn Body of Evidence

If you’re on LinkedIn to improve your career, or to keep your options open, yet all you do is “connect” with people and maybe once a year visit the site, sigh enviously over the sterling careers other people seem to enjoy, and then, grumpily, log off in a hurry, wondering why you even bother…well, now…
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July 27, 2015 0