I created Chart Your Own Path to highlight alternative and innovative routes to creating a work-life rich with meaning and fulfillment.

Chart Your Own Path guides students in discovering where and how to begin their career journey, and empowers professionals to reinvent themselves or to get unstuck. This approach provides a new roadmap for charting a work-life journey that is resilient and adaptable for times of uncertainty, like today, when the game has changed.

The greatest opportunity for innovation and change in the world today lies in the realm of work. For most of us, the days of a single, lifelong career are long gone, yet the suffocating belief that this is what one ‘should’ do still lingers. In my many conversations with college students and career changers, I often encounter a slight sense of panic because they 'don’t know what they are going to do with their lives' or ‘don’t know what they are going to do next.’

There are entire industries to help people be better leaders, to climb the corporate ladder to the c-suite, and to be high-performing, but there is very little on what matters at a deeper level - developing a professional career that is meaningful, purposeful and fulfilling. So many people don't realize this importance until they are totally burned out, or until it's too late.

In looking at burnout, According to Gallup's annual survey of work,  Sixty percent of people reported being emotionally detached at work and 19% as being miserable.  Employee mental wellbeing is not in a good a bad place. The number of people expressing high stress, sadness, anxiety, and anger at work is at its highest levels since the Gallup surveys began.

Palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware wrote a book on the five regrets of the dying, and you know what the #1 regret was? “I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself.”

How do we change this?

“Research shows that meaningfulness is more important to us than any other aspect of our jobs — including pay and rewards, opportunities for promotion, and working conditions. When we experience our work as meaningful, we’re more engaged, committed, and satisfied. When we don’t, we’re more willing to quit…”
~ Harvard Business Review, December 2023

There’s a reason the philosophical maxim "Know thyself" has stood the test of time. To live a life and do work that is true to yourself, you need to understand who you are and why you do what you do. Only then can you unlock your full potential, create your best self, and do your best work.

WHY DID I START CHART YOUR OWN PATH?

I created 'Chart Your Own Path,' to guide people who are reinventing their careers, in transition, or just stuck, to awaken and empower their authentic selves so the next chapter of their work-life can be filled with meaning and purpose.

I know this well, as I’ve gone through four successful work-life transitions and reinventions myself. I’ve also come through deep depression where faking and hiding and wearing a mask took it's toll. And, I almost died, twice.

Collectively these experiences have provided me with a lot of hard-earned and valuable insights that I pulled from, and along with meticulous research over many months, Chart Your Own Path began to emerge.

CHART YOUR OWN PATH: THE FIVE ELEMENTS

Chart Your Own Path guides you through five elements of a holistic framework for creating a meaningful and fulfilling work-life for your next chapter. It provide you with strategies, tools, and impactful stories so that you can successfully make that needed transition or reinvention and take your professional life to your next level.

• The first 3 elements guide you to Awaken the Power Within.

• I. MINDSET: It's not your resources — it's your attitude, approach, and resourcefulness.

• II. ACTIVATE YOUR INNER COMPASS: it’s why you get out of bed in the morning. With your Soul Force aligned and Inner Compass activated, your path for this time in your life will become clear.

• III. COURAGE IS CALLING. Beware of dragons. There’s a battle for the soul of your - and human - potential. Break free and build the skills so that you can be so good they can’t ignore you.

• IV. CONTEXT. The 1st three elements are mostly about the individual. What is as important is Context. Context is identifying what types of environmental conditions bring out your best. It is the who, what, and where of how you thrive.

• V. PART OF THE WHOLE. I customize this one for each audience, organization, and individual. It’s about exploration, growth, and contribution, and expanding into Flow, Awe, and Peak Experiences.

IMAGINE…

Imagine having the clarity, tools, and confidence to navigate the next chapter of your career path successfully—whether changing careers, completely reinventing yourself, getting unstuck, or starting your first chapter after College.

CYOP helps you create a meaningful and fulfilling work-life that aligns with who you truly are and helps you identify the who, what, where, and how you thrive. It guides you to create a new vision for your career and make it a reality.

Don’t let yourself have that top regret that so many have. Get in touch and take your work-life to a whole new level filled with meaning, success, and purpose. Chart Your Own Path in 2025!