
Explore happiness, flow, and career satisfaction through positive psychology. Identify your strengths to build an abundant flow-filled life and better career.
Explore the research on happiness and life satisfaction, highlighting healthy relationships, authentic goal alignment, purpose, optimism, and flow. Learn to bring flow into daily life and career.
Understand flow as being in the zone where deep focus and energy meet a challenging task, with time passing quickly, applicable to daily life and work.
Identify the should disease as a roadblock to abundant flow, shaped by societal narratives and family expectations. List every should to uncover how it influences your happiness and career.
Identify and circle the shoulds that have served your life and career, then strike through those that don’t align with what feels good or with your strengths, quieting external voices.
Embrace fear as a natural driver that accompanies pursuing abundant flow. Weigh the risks of changing your life and career against the risks of not changing to move forward.
Learn to manage fear by realistically assessing risks and imagining worst-case scenarios. Use problem-solving and available resources to cope with change and reduce catastrophic thinking.
Identify how career creep undermines abundant flow by highlighting promotions that misalign with your strengths, and learn to align opportunities with your core energy and purpose.
Identify weaknesses as activities that drain energy and disrupt flow, then reflect on a recent task to map your weak zone and what you dislike.
Identify your real strengths as energizing activities where you feel physically and intellectually strong, and where time moves quickly, revealing your flow and the tasks that energize you.
Discover how to identify your strengths and weaknesses through body awareness, take responsibility, and track daily tasks in strong or weak zones to build a more fulfilling career.
Take a detailed inventory of your life and preferences. Accept the information you uncover to see if your current career sits in your strong zone and motivates change.
Unhelpful weaknesses drain you emotionally and physically; fixing them rarely creates strength. Instead, cultivate your strengths in your zone to sustain energy and growth.
Apply the 70/30 rule to balance tasks in your strong zone, identify weak areas, and actively partner, volunteer, or adjust roles to align with your motivation.
Identify your content, roles, and tasks that align with your strengths. Explore what motivates you and build bridges into aligned work through practice and portfolio growth.
Identify how depletion clouds your judgment about fit, assess when praise or money distracts from enjoyment, and use a feelings checklist to align tasks with your strong zone and energy.
Explore your childhood loves, the roles friends seek from you, and how you spend free time to uncover what energizes your life, career, and flow.
Explore three dream careers across ten years each, prioritizing what you love over money or security. Identify the tasks you enjoy and align choices with your strongest self.
Build courage for career change by connecting with people who have done similar paths, through informational interviews, online communities, and positive, encouraging networks.
Apply flow beyond your career by identifying your strong zone and weak zone across work, home, and parenting, then delegate weak-zone tasks to stay engaged.
Cultivate flow in your life and career by facing fear, clarifying risks, and taking small, directional steps toward a more purposeful, energized life.
Why does my workday feel so unfulfilling? Do I need to adjust my current roles and tasks? Do I need to change careers completely? Where do I even start? What if I have no idea what it feels like to be passionate about work? What if I feel completely depleted by my life? Is it possible to have a happier daily life? This online course is designed to help you find answers to questions like these, so that you can make the changes you need to have a happier, more fulfilling life and career.
For most of my adult life, I have been obsessed with understanding what makes people fulfilled by their daily work. Earning a PhD in Organizational Communication, I was constantly seeking to understand how research on happiness and life fulfillment intersected with our careers. As I moved through my own journey, from working as a professor of communication, to a fulfilling career as a professional speaker and life coach, I was able to deeply understand the difficulty of being in a career that didn’t fit, and the fulfillment in finding a path that aligned deeply with my strengths.
This course is not a “feel good” course designed to simply tell you to “find your passion.” It’s a hands on practical class on how to look carefully into your current career and daily life, so that you can get clear about what’s working and what’s not. Drawing on the work of Marcus Buckingham, research on life satisfaction and the state of flow, I offer you the real, nitty-gritty information on building a career that aligns with what makes you feel alive, interested, engaged and happy. And not surprisingly, when you feel this way, you are far more likely to be successful. It’s your life, you deserve to live a STRONG one! Now let’s get started.