Never Doubt Your Life Purpose After listening to my story, I doubt you’ll doubt your life purpose ever again. My life changed forever thanks to a simple construction worker with an amazing message that inspired me to believe in my life’s purpose. This experience broke me down to tears and I think you’ll find some benefit and feel inspired to live your life purpose. Life Questions: Are You Living Up To Your Potential? Do you doubt your life purpose? Most of us wonder if we’re

Does Your Work Overwhelm Your Life? Work overwhelm affects millions of professionals each day. Stress can kill the most promising careers – not just negatively impact your health. These seven simple tips will help you gain perspective, relieve stress, and stop negative thinking in its tracks. Photo by Estée Janssens on Unsplash Identify Your Repetitive Overwhelming Thoughts We get so lost in our thoughts that it’s hard to find our way out. Take stock of what automatic thought

As a job search expert and certified Global Career Development Facilitator, I’ve spent more than decade helping entrepreneurs, managers, and executives find new jobs, get promotions and make career changes. Assure movement in the right direction with a few focused actions. Make Your Job Search Count With Five Core Steps If you’re looking for a job, do it how I’ve been teaching my clients for over a decade. These essential steps will help you make the most of your job search f

How Leslie Juvin-Acker Stepped Into Executive Coaching My specialty as a career and leadership coach for the action sports industry came as an organic passion. As a young teen, action sports took me out of the confines of an unhappy family life and into an expansive, global world. A Way Out: Something Productive To Do Surfing saved me. It really did. My family life was in the pits and what provided a vision of something else out there were the skate and surf videos and magazi

Fame And Fortune Aren’t The Answer to Happiness I’ve been coaching for 8 years now and through all the years I have witnessed many personal and professional journeys unfold. I coach by, most standards, “rich” people and “famous” people and I coach “regular”, lower income and middle class people. Seeing people of all walks of life, I can say that we’re all the same. Everybody experiences the same kinds of issues. Money and popularity is no barrier to life stress, unhappiness,

Feedback is a natural law in our world. Some call it karma, others call it cause and effect. Feedback is the resonance we experience as a result of our choices and actions. And, for better or for worse, they tell us if what we’re doing is any “good” at all. Unfortunately, we occasionally suspend our belief in this natural phenomena because we can’t simply bear to experience any negativity that could imply that we’re “doing it all wrong”. Saying “no news is good news” runs cou

Do you ever find yourself in the same old situations, wondering why on earth something keeps happening to you? What if there’s a way to go from living the “same old, same old” Ground Hog’s Day experience to a new adventure each day? With a little mental strength, everyday conflicts can go from the same s&%#, different day to magical moments. Repetitive Madness Imagine yourself sitting around a table, listening to everyone speak in turn. All of a sudden, the meeting goes south

When putting together a job portfolio, it’s natural to look at our old work with a groan and say, “What can I possibly do with this mess of information?” no matter what your level, trade and industry may be, anyone can assemble a compelling professional job portfolio that can land you your dream job. Having designed and taught a course on professional marketing material materials to international MBA students at INSEEC Business School and consulted a variety of professionals

Whether we’ve landed a promotion at our current company or are starting a new job at a new company or relocated to a new job there is always an element of anxiety about how successful we’ll end up being. I help companies coach their employees during a time called onboarding. It’s a fancy, HR term for the process during which a new employee develops the behaviors and gathers the skills to become an insider. I help new recruits focus on the first three, critical months by setti

If there is anything the action sports industry is known for, it’s the culture. It’s a culture that builds a lifestyle around breaking boundaries and taking the unconventional route to the top. While all companies employ basic business principles, it’s a company’s culture that sets it apart and brings its brand spirit to life. Which, for Malakye, leads me to examine why employees make their career decisions based on company culture and how company culture affects the bottom l

Stress management is one of the most common issues I help my private and corporate clients face. Stress creeps into the workplace through a variety of ways and can affect employee morale which then can erode the bottom line. According to the American Psychological Association, “the top sources of stress include, money (69 percent), work (65 percent), the economy (61 percent), family responsibilities (57 percent), relationships (56 percent), family health problems (52 percent)

Secrets To Professional Advancement For Working Women When I work with women who are looking for new positions they are extremely capable, well educated, and qualified for the positions they’re seeking. From my experience, women professionals tend to underestimate their capacities and will not apply for a position or promotion unless they believe their profile matches 100%. Men, on the other hand, don’t worry as much about meeting profile requirements and push for positions t

Management Tip: How To Slow Down Your Thinking To Create New Opportunities When coaching executives there is a common theme that I observe about most of them: they’re fast. They’re fast thinkers, fast movers, and they’re fast at producing results; That’s the world of business, isn’t it? The issue I notice is that this special type of person can be frustrated when others can’t keep up with their train of thought; there’s a lot of interrupting that goes on. I understand how thi

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW OTHERS DEVELOP AND SUSTAIN THRIVING CAREERS? DO YOU FEEL IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO DO THE SAME? MY TWO PART ADVICE COLUMN WILL HELP YOU DEVELOP WHAT IT TAKES TO BEGIN AND CREATE A WORTHY AND SUCCESSFUL CAREER. 4. Stick With It Some people get stuck or become unhappy with their jobs and careers because they are not evolving as fast as they should. Some quit when the going gets tough because they believe they don’t have to take crap from anybody. Challenge

Have you ever wondered how others develop and sustain thriving careers? Do you feel it’s time for you to do the same? My two part advice column will help you develop what it takes to begin and create a worthy and successful career. 1. Have A Clear Vision The difference between a job and a career is determined by the vision. No matter the job, one can build a career through vision, that is what they wish to create in the world around them as a result of their individual input.

Are you stressed at work? Expert career coach Leslie Juvin-Acker discusses ways to deal with situations that can leave you stressed at work. I received a message from a stressed and exhausted professional who is having a tough time dealing with her team and learning how to let go of control. Find out this professional’s problem and my recommended strategy for accessing the situation and applying some techniques to find more peace and confidence on the job. I have gone to my m

We can’t be friends with everybody, but we try anyway. Sometimes, we get too involved in the lives of others and find that we can get too close for comfort. Keeping emotional and personal distance is an art and a science. It’s a balancing act between keeping what’s yours yours and what is ours a question of public domain. What do you mean keep distance? Keeping distance can mean a variety of things. We can keep emotional distance by not allowing our thoughts and feelings to g

How do you deal when your job has made you an emotional wreck? Check out how I’ve taught my client how to stop simply putting out fires to using a bad job as a stepping stone for success. I have a coaching client who hates his job. Let’s call him Ted. He’s a young professional and has been at his job for about two years now. Because he’s a young professional with limited experience, he must stay at his job while he explores other opportunities and determines a plan for his ne

Job hopping has always had negative connotations with one-hundred and one different meanings. I want to explore job hopping and perhaps help professionals get an greater understanding of how job hopping can affect your life and career. I’ve been working since I was fifteen years old. Many of the jobs I had were summer jobs. I worked a summer job as a forklift operator in a Walmart warehouse. It was a pretty nice paycheck, but it was a summer job and I knew I wouldn’t work the

I’m exploring what is a career change – what do experts believe a career change is? And, what is the generational difference between Boomers and Millenials when it comes to a career change? What Is A Career Change According To Experts? The Wall Street Journal’s, Carl Bialik, asks readers to think twice about the modern career mantra of a career change every five to seven years. The reason why this “rule” is not set in stone is because there isn’t enough statistical data to ba