Four years ago today, I wrote my very first blog post in The Occupational Adventure. In the four years since, this blog has played a hugely positive role in my life. It has opened up the door to national media exposure, connected me with a bucketload...

I've been on an organizational rampage lately, and recently came across an article on hypnosis I had cut out and saved a couple years ago. What fascinated me about the article was not so much the hypnosis element, but what it had to say about how we...

Part of creating the career you want is spreading the word about who you are, the gifts you bring to the picture, and how you want to put them to use. In other words, self-promotion. Penelope Trunk has a fantastic post (as always) over on Brazen...

I love the whole idea of doing well by doing good. Hunter Arnold at Make More of Your Job has a great post on how practicing random acts of kindness can actually be in our own best interests, as well as beneficial to the recipients of that kindness....

As I have watched my friend Erden Eruc plan for and execute on his dream of human-powered circumnavigation of the world (with summit attempts on the highest peak on six continents thrown in), I have often thought how many parallels there are between...