An Amazing Career

Oct 07 2023
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Equipping you with phenomenal skills, habits and a mindset to help you redefine your limits, to have an amazing career and life away from work. 

Whether it's maintaining your edge, breathing life into a stale career or transitioning to a totally new career — here you'll find the tools and guidance you need.

Hosted by Executive and Career Coach & Neuropsychologist  Dr Jim Polk, with over 40 years experience guiding people to greatness. New episodes drop weekly.

DrJimPolk.com / [email protected]

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How to Handle a Personal Crisis When It's Hurting Your Career

Oct 07 2023 16 mins  
How to Handle a Personal Crisis When It's Hurting Your CareerAt some point, all of us will confront a stressful life event or personal crisis that can distract us from our work. It can’t be avoided. Maybe it’s taking care of an ill family member or close friend, dealing with your own illness, or coping with a divorce.All of these can be incredibly difficult situations to naviga

Four Strategies to Maintain Your Success Mindset

Sep 30 2023 16 mins  
Four Strategies to Maintain Your Success MindsetIn our last meeting I began the process of helping you Master YOUR Success Mindset.That episode focused on building Resilience, Grit and Emotional Control … to get you more of what you want out of life, and to succeed in your Career.THIS week, I’ll be covering a set of real strategies that you can implement into your life to incre

Mastering Your Success Mindset - How to Crush Your Career

Sep 23 2023 17 mins  
Mastering Your Success Mindset - How to Crush Your CareerI’m thrilled to help you along this journey towards boosting your career and life away from work. In this podcast we’re going to focus on building, maintaining and Mastering a Success Mindset for your career. How are we going to do that? Great Question…We’ll be dissecting three traits that separate stories of victory

Emotional Mastery to Elevate Your Career

Sep 19 2023 21 mins  
Emotional Mastery to Elevate Your CareerToday we’re going to tackle the topic of Mastering Your Emotions.WE ALL experience a wide range of emotions during our life. And we need both types — POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE.They give us feedback about how we’re doing in the world.BUT SOMETIMES emotions can get in the way of us living a healthy and successful life and can interfere with o

Developing and Advancing in Your Career - 3 Awesome Methods

Sep 09 2023 16 mins  
Developing and Advancing in Your Career - 3 Awesome MethodsToday I’ll be covering two of the most common and important problems workers in almost every field run into, Career Advancement and Career Development.The two are interdependent concepts. Career Development lays the FOUNDATION for Career Advancement by providing you with skills, expertise and knowledge required to excel.W

How to Achieve a Balanced Life

Sep 02 2023 22 mins  
A Balanced Life — Your Career and Life Away from WorkThis view that people need to do more than work resonates with a growing number, myself included, and I hope you adopt it by the end of today’s episode.In Today’s Episode we’ll be looking at Work Life Balance, or what I label it,A Balanced Life.Today we’ll examine why this balance is important, the benefits that come fr

Taking Stock of Who You Really Are — Values & Beliefs

Aug 26 2023 21 mins  
VALUES AND BELIEFSHow well do you really know yourself? I’m not talking about knowing what your favorite color is, what you like to watch on tv or how you spend your leisure time … although these do say something about you.The busy and hectic way that many live their lives, can make it difficult to actually KNOW who they are down deep. And knowing who you really are is super im

Beginning AGAIN - Career Changing Strategies for Senior Level Executives & Professionals

Aug 19 2023 19 mins  
Strategies for Career Change for Senior Level Executives & ProfessionalsIt can often be challenging for senior-level executives to completely switch careers … compared to mid-level professionals. Why? We can grow out of our career, simply because it no longer interests us the way it used to and something else calls to us. Maybe the need for a new challenge, a fresh start …

TIME - Strategies to Make the Most of Yours

Aug 12 2023 14 mins  
TIME MANAGEMENTPeople are constantly either trying to make the most of their time, wasting time or trying to make up for lost time. There are almost countless stories and films on time … Back to the Future with Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells and my personal favorite … the 1966 television series the TIME TUNNEL.We’re fascinated by time an

3 Ways to Master Your Mindset for Success

Aug 05 2023 18 mins  
Today, we’re going to look at your Mindset, specifically the part of it dealing with:The Meaning You Give ThingsWe’ll examine just what that means and why it’s important to your success and how it can cause setbacks. And, we’ll also look at How to Shift the Meaning You Give Things into a Healthy and Useful Direction, as well as hoow to Maintain that Healthy and Useful Minds