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Avoiding Career Limiting Moves at This Year’s Holiday Party

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:26:18 +0000

Jennifer Luney and I had just a little too much fun on the last segment of the Lunch and Learn TV show today. We skipped over over-imbibing at the holiday party and started right off with holiday party rule #1: No casual sex with your co-workers.

Life by Design vs Life By Default

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:14:02 +0000

Living the Success Principles #4

Principle #3 in Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles is “Decide What You Want.” This, folks, is your vision. What do you want to be, do and have? My corollary on that is “Who do you want to be?” or maybe it’s “Who do you have to be to do and have what you want?”

Be Clear Why You’re Here

Carolann Jacobs — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:12:01 +0000

Living the Success Principles #3

I haven’t written about my journey on the success principles in three months (oh my goodness!!!), and this is a good illustration about how time passes without forward movement. In other words, a vision without any action is a dream. To be fair and honest, I am doing between one and five things every day towards my big hairy goal, and my goal is aligned with my vision. In other words, I’m not just chasing the shiny thing.

Read more on Be Clear Why You’re Here…

Dear Beyonce…Just Turn The Phone Off!

Carolann Jacobs — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:56:52 +0000

One of the side effects of incorporating Principle #1 of Jack Canfield’s Success Principles is that I have become acutely aware of how our culture influences us to abdicate our accountability and responsibility, most especially what’s being played on the radio.

Giving up “Because”, Keeping the F-Bomb

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:32:58 +0000

Many of you may know that I am on the path to earn my Master Trainer’s Certification in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). For those of you who are unfamiliar with NLP, it is model which explains how we process information that comes to us from the outside (and our internal Negative Nelly). As both an ever evolving person and as a practitioner, I am working on being more deliberate with my use of language.

100% Accountability, Take Two

Carolann Jacobs — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:32:51 +0000

Living the Success Principles #2

I’m in the second or perhaps third week of working Principle 1 – Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life, and I admit, I am still stuck on the No Complaints rule. This is somewhat embarrassing since I harp on this one with my clients.

Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life (Part 1)

Carolann Jacobs — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:58:15 +0000

This is the first installment of my effort to integrate the 64 Success Principles from Jack Canfield’s book of the same name.

Last week, I went to a one day live workshop with Jack Canfield, and was considering, along with the accountability partner he recommended and the mastermind group that frankly I’m not in the mood to participate in, how I could execute on the principles better. I very much like the content, and the success is in the action, not in the knowledge.

Not Buying the Solution, Not Participating in the Game

Carolann Jacobs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:53:23 +0000

We’ve become a society of consumers, people who participate little, if at all, in the creation of what we use. There is a someone else who does almost everything for us, and that’s become a habit for us. Think that impacts engagement at work? I do.

So How are Those Resolutions Going?

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:13:13 +0000

On the Wagon? Photo by Craig

So, we’re about halfway through January, and even though I suggested that resolutions are a waste of time, I bet some of you made them anyway. How’s it going?

How Can I Tick You Off or Disappoint You Today?

Carolann Jacobs — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:00:23 +0000

Photo By Don Van Dyke

Back in the days when I managed multi-million dollar business applications, there were days that it seemed like I, as a manager, and my team of developers could do no right. Anyone who deals with customers experiences days like these, and our goal is to have these days be few and far between.