This past week, I had the privilege of speaking on Creative Success Now: How to Ignite Your Passion and Purpose for Successful Creative Careers” to students at Yale University. My talk attracted a variety of students who were intrigued about creativity and turning their passion and purpose into a successful career. These included singers, composers, performers, an aspiring novelist, several …
Networking for the Music Entrepreneur: The 4-Step Process to Career Success
As I am preparing for my new role at the Yale School of Music as Coordinator of Career Strategies, I have been talking to a number of people in the field who are also devoted to helping musicians succeed in their careers. This week alone, I have had 3 conversations about networking and how critical it is to career success. Most musicians know this. Yet, so often they are reluctant to do start networking because of an underlying fear about networking. In my classes and private sessions, I often hear how scared people are to network because they think that they have to “sell” themselves. If that’s the predominant thought, no wonder people shy away from networking! So it’s important to come up with a new way of thinking about networking:
Connect + Share + Be Relevant
Not so hard, right?
In fact, when I introduce this concept to my students and my clients, I hear a collective sigh of relief in the room! And once they have a new way of thinking about networking, it becomes much easier to embrace the principles and start networking.
Networking for Musicians: How to Get Started
So now you get it: networking is the way to go if you want to expand your reach and create opportunities that can lead you to career success based on a mutual exchange of information, resources and contacts. You understand that networking is about connecting with, sharing and being relevant to others. You have your Elevator Speech. You are eager …
Play to Your Strengths–Literally–to Feel Self-Mastery and Fulfillment
I advocate playing to your strengths instead of compensating for weaknesses as a way of creating self-mastery and empowerment in your life. Helping my clients to recognize and use their strengths is one of the hallmarks of my coaching and my teaching. Recently, I had this very experience in a domain that is near and dear to my heart-my piano playing. See how I learned the different between playing to my strengths and struggling to overcome my weaknesses.
Top Ten Gifts to Yourself to Put You on the Road to Authentic Success
With holiday season upon us, top ten lists abound! So here is my contribution of the Top Ten Gifts that you can give to yourself to help you take charge of your life and begin to experience authentic success.
A Life of Fulfillment: Have a Dream…or have faith Part II
What if you do not have a dream?
It is frustrating not to be able to figure out what to do with your life. Understandably, many people flounder when they do not know what it is that they are working towards. It often feels too hard and people get stuck along the way, even giving up and saying that there is no use in trying. No wonder so many people feel an underlying malaise and a lack of fulfillment.
Happily, there is an answer.
How to Discover Your Core Values – Tap Into Joy and Experience Success
True success comes from knowing your cores and making decisions that honor those values. You can figure out your values by examining something that makes you very angry as I did when I examined my strong reaction to Don Draper of Mad Men. Now let’s complement that with an experience from the opposite end of the spectrum: joy.