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I was recently interviewed about my new book, The Boomerang Approach at the NextAvenue blog. The interview was also posted online at Forbes magazine – you can find it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2014/12/19/for-a-career-switch-try-the-boomerang-approach/ If you would like to order The Boomerang Approach through Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615979769/ And if you would like more information about the book, please go to this page:https://boomerangcoach.com/resources/book/ I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your support!Reiner LombFounder, BoomerangCoachhttp://www.boomerangcoach.com

A Baby Boomer recently explained to me, “I would like to work on issues I truly care about but the golden handcuffs keep me from leaving my company.” Many professionals in that age group (i.e. “Baby Boomers” born between 1946 and 1964) whom I have talked to would like to follow their passion and purpose but hesitate to leave their companies so close to the goal line of retirement, because they fear the economic risk involved in a career change. According to a 2014 study

(published today on the BoomerCafe website. For the entire post, click on the link below) Years ago, during a time of inner struggle, I received a “wake-up call” to re-evaluate my life. On a business trip in Asia, jet-lagged I woke up in the middle of the night. I turned on the TV only to find a news story about an ethnic war in Africa in which the paramilitary troops of one ethnic group were raging through villages of another ethnic group and cutting off

What needs in the world do you truly care about? Answering this question will help you define your purpose and allow you to align your career accordingly. At a deeper level, the question of what you care about in the world is a question about your values. Therefore it is also important to ask:  Why do you care about this issue?  The issue that has the strongest link to your values will likely be at the top of your list of world needs. Your values

One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.”  ~ Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself The importance of knowing and using your strengths in your career is illustrated in one of my favorite fables, the story of the animal school (Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving & Learning, 1982): “A rabbit, bird, fish, squirrel, duck, and so on, all decided to start a school. Everybody sat down to write a curriculum. The rabbit insisted that running had to be in the

“Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.” ~ David Sarnoff, pioneer of American radio and television I agree with David Sarnoff, because if you love your work, the sky is the limit. But how do we recognize or even become aware of the kind of work that we love? First of all, activities we love often don’t even feel like work. These are the activities you are passionate about, that nobody needs to push you to do or motivate you for. These are

Do you remember a moment in your life when you were “in the flow,” when you worked on something and you were forgetting time and space, when you felt happy, creative, and fulfilled, and when you knew you were making an important contribution? If you have experienced moments like this in your life, then you have very likely been doing work related to your true vocation. Many of the people I have coached in their career development recall having had experiences such as the one

It was the summer after 9/11 when we walked the Camino de Santiago across the North of Spain, also known as “The Way.” One day we were resting at a street café in Leon when a man, who was also walking the Camino, joined us at the table. The man told us that he had started his walk more than two months before in Germany. Noticing sadness in his voice, I asked him carefully, “Why do you walk the Camino?” “My wife left me,” he