Equipping you with phenomenal skills, habits and a mindset to help you redefine your limits, to have an amazing career and life away from work.
Whether it's maintaining your edge, breathing life into a stale career or transitioning to a totally new career — here you'll find the tools and guidance you need.
Hosted by Executive and Career Coach & Neuropsychologist Dr Jim Polk, with over 40 years experience guiding people to greatness. New episodes drop weekly.
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How to Handle a Personal Crisis When It's Hurting Your Career
How to Handle a Personal Crisis When It's Hurting Your CareerAt some point, all of us will confront a stressful life event or personal crisis that can distract us from our work. It can’t be avoided. Maybe it’s taking care of an ill family member or close friend, dealing with your own illness, or coping with a divorce.All of these can be incredibly difficult situations to navigate personally, let alone professionally. Should you share whatever’s going on with your employer, colleagues or frien...
30 Sept 2023
Four Strategies to Maintain Your Success Mindset
Four Strategies to Maintain Your Success MindsetIn our last meeting I began the process of helping you Master YOUR Success Mindset.That episode focused on building Resilience, Grit and Emotional Control … to get you more of what you want out of life, and to succeed in your Career.THIS week, I’ll be covering a set of real strategies that you can implement into your life to increase your Inner Strength, to help you Master and Maintain that Success Mindset.We'll look at Discovering Your Purpose,...
23 Sept 2023
Mastering Your Success Mindset - How to Crush Your Career
Mastering Your Success Mindset - How to Crush Your CareerI’m thrilled to help you along this journey towards boosting your career and life away from work. In this podcast we’re going to focus on building, maintaining and Mastering a Success Mindset for your career. How are we going to do that? Great Question…We’ll be dissecting three traits that separate stories of victory from setbacks … and that can transform setbacks into learning opportunities to give whatever you’re up to another shot, b...
19 Sept 2023
Emotional Mastery to Elevate Your Career
Emotional Mastery to Elevate Your CareerToday we’re going to tackle the topic of Mastering Your Emotions.WE ALL experience a wide range of emotions during our life. And we need both types — POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE.They give us feedback about how we’re doing in the world.BUT SOMETIMES emotions can get in the way of us living a healthy and successful life and can interfere with our career. Today we’ll be looking at what happens when emotions go unchecked and interfere with your life, what ca...
9 Sept 2023
Developing and Advancing in Your Career - 3 Awesome Methods
Developing and Advancing in Your Career - 3 Awesome MethodsToday I’ll be covering two of the most common and important problems workers in almost every field run into, Career Advancement and Career Development.The two are interdependent concepts. Career Development lays the FOUNDATION for Career Advancement by providing you with skills, expertise and knowledge required to excel.When you engage in Continuous Learning and Development, you not only become better at what you do, you also become a...
2 Sept 2023
How to Achieve a Balanced Life
A Balanced Life — Your Career and Life Away from WorkThis view that people need to do more than work resonates with a growing number, myself included, and I hope you adopt it by the end of today’s episode.In Today’s Episode we’ll be looking at Work Life Balance, or what I label it,A Balanced Life.Today we’ll examine why this balance is important, the benefits that come from having a balanced life, what throws it out of whack and how to achieve and MAINTAIN that balance.I’ll share 3 Techniques...
26 Aug 2023
Taking Stock of Who You Really Are — Values & Beliefs
VALUES AND BELIEFSHow well do you really know yourself? I’m not talking about knowing what your favorite color is, what you like to watch on tv or how you spend your leisure time … although these do say something about you.The busy and hectic way that many live their lives, can make it difficult to actually KNOW who they are down deep. And knowing who you really are is super important when you’re picking a new career, reigniting the passion for the career and life you’re in the midd...
19 Aug 2023
Beginning AGAIN - Career Changing Strategies for Senior Level Executives & Professionals
Strategies for Career Change for Senior Level Executives & ProfessionalsIt can often be challenging for senior-level executives to completely switch careers … compared to mid-level professionals. Why? We can grow out of our career, simply because it no longer interests us the way it used to and something else calls to us. Maybe the need for a new challenge, a fresh start … to grab that excitement that goes with trying something new.And sometimes we get downsized from a career because...
12 Aug 2023
TIME - Strategies to Make the Most of Yours
TIME MANAGEMENTPeople are constantly either trying to make the most of their time, wasting time or trying to make up for lost time. There are almost countless stories and films on time … Back to the Future with Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells and my personal favorite … the 1966 television series the TIME TUNNEL.We’re fascinated by time and how to manipulate it, and HOW you spend YOUR time is critical. It makes the difference between success and failure — ...
5 Aug 2023
3 Ways to Master Your Mindset for Success
Today, we’re going to look at your Mindset, specifically the part of it dealing with:The Meaning You Give ThingsWe’ll examine just what that means and why it’s important to your success and how it can cause setbacks. And, we’ll also look at How to Shift the Meaning You Give Things into a Healthy and Useful Direction, as well as hoow to Maintain that Healthy and Useful MindsetSo if you want to up your game in the world and be more successful, stick around until the end. You won’t regret itI’m ...
29 Jul 2023
Success Unleashed - Master Your Focus & Subconscious
Have you ever wondered why you do some of the things you do? Or like or dislike certain things? What’s your favorite color? Why?Today we'll jump into different ways to improve your focus by “focusing” on your subconscious mind. What goes on there is a powerful driver for your focus, your decision making and the way you view the world — and how you execute whatever plan you have going on. And of course, how successful you are.We’ll examine three areas to do this:Adopting Empowering Belie...
22 Jul 2023
How to Use Setbacks to Improve Your Career and Life
Setbacks We've ALL had and will continue to have bumps in the road. The world’s far from perfect, so they’re inevitable.The MOST important thing regarding SETBACKS is how we respond to them.It doesn’t matter what you’re up to in life — in school, on the job, raising children, working in high tech or industry, teaching, whatever.Setbacks will occur. It’s a fact of our human existence. To ignore this fact, to belittle it or to try to eliminate setbacks altogether, destines anyone’s life, any co...
15 Jul 2023
Creating & Implementing Your Career Action Plan - Ready, Set, Go!
Creating and Implementing Your Career Action PlanIf you've been following this podcast, you know it's all about making changes in your life to accelerate and improve your career, or to switch to a new career, to get more of what you want from life ... happiness, fulfillment, flexibility, more money and spare time. We've touched a lot on work/life balance as well.To get you ready for these changes, you've learned about the importance of Creating a Clear Vision of what want your life to b...
8 Jul 2023
FOCUS - 10 Ways to Improve Yours to Skyrocket Your Career
The way your life plays out and how successful you are at something, is the result of the decisions you make. So what determines which decisions you make and how well you implement them? FOCUSFocus puts your attention onto a task, maintains it and guides your thoughts and actions to an outcome. Focus is a skill that can be impaired or improved.Today's episode dives deep to show you What Can Kill Your Focus and and 10 Ways to Improve Your Focus to get you the career and life you d...
1 Jul 2023
Creativity in The Workplace - Why You Need It & How to Regain Yours
Creativity is the Number One attribute employers are looking for in their people today. Think about it. It's needed for Entrepreneurs , Start-Ups, Marketing, Medicine, Space Programs, Music and Art, IT and AI, Sports, Management & Team Building ... ANY job or career path you can imagine.Thing is, we're all born Creative. But along the way society puts limits on us to do things "the right way." We find a way to do something that works and tend to try to solve every problem with the same ro...
24 Jun 2023
How to Create a Vision for Your Future - Seeing Clearly
The ability to properly execute, carry out and succeed with a Career Change requires a plan. There’s lots of moving parts to a comprehensive plan and one of the most important is to have good vision, in order to not only see your ultimate goal, but to keep an eye on the road along the way. But before you make a plan you need to have a clear understanding of where you’re going. And for THAT, you’re best served by Creating a Vision for Your Future, for both your career and your life away from w...
17 Jun 2023
Help! I'm Stuck and I Can't Get Out!
In today’s episode we’re going to explore the different situations people get themselves STUCK in, focusing mostly on how they get stuck in a Dead End Career.It can be difficult to change lanes in life. Once we invest time, money and emotions into a certain career, the effort it takes to change careers is daunting and most people resign themselves to "putting-up" with their job, living for the weekends and retirement, rather than enjoying what they do for a living. We’ll dive into the my...
10 Jun 2023
Knowing When to Change Careers — Ready or Not?
How do you know when it's time to change careers or to retire? Sometimes, when you believe it's your career that's dragging you down — it's not your career that's the problem.In today's episode, you'll learn how to identify all the contributors to how you feel about your career, and if you're feeling burned out, how to accurately figure-out what's going on. We'll take a look at the life of one of my actual clients, a Rear Admiral in the US Navy, as he wrestles with disabling physical, e...
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