Kerstin McInnis

Author: Kerstin McInnis, A Cake Walk Life

  • Career Fairy

    We’d all like to believe that there’s a career fairy godmother out there guiding our careers.  We may have even had someone at one point in our career help us out a little, maybe give us some good advice, or let us try something new.  When it comes down to it though, most of us…

  • A Dog With A Bone

    I am, “a dog with a bone” with my clients.  I want what they want and I’ll champion them and cheer them on until they’ve accomplished what they want to accomplish. Personally though, I don’t always feel that I have the tenacity that some people have when it comes to grabbing a hold of my…

  • When One Door Closes, Another One Opens

    We’ve all heard this saying and maybe even said to someone.  But when that door closes for you, sometimes it’s hard to feel so positive about where things are going. So what can you do to get yourself into a more positive state? First, go ahead and let all the anger & panic out.  Maybe…

  • Making Way for the New

    I was raised Catholic.  Although I don’t practice anymore, it’s still a part of who I am and I occasionally go to church.  I think going gives me a sense of connection to my past and to the community.  I often, by sheer randomness, show up at church on Palm Sunday.  I just think, “it…

  • Are You Awake?

    Have you ever felt rudder-less?  Like you don’t know which way you’re supposed to go or why?  Or you feel like your life isn’t satisfying?  What do you want?  Do you know?  Why isn’t your life filled with all those things that you want? Or like so many people today, we’re so busy running around…

  • What Do You Need?

    Many people I know are going through financial challenges right now, and I think the question of “what do I need” is frequently being asked.  It’s a very black and white thing, in a time of spending analysis, to decide what you want versus what you need.  Do you need to go out to dinner? …

  • Creating a New Reality

    Creating a New Reality

    I’ve been thinking a lot about diversifying – diversifying my life. I have a tendency to be an all or nothing person.  When I was a full time employee, I earned all my income from that company and had my 401K contributions all going to company stock.  I was all in.  As a consultant, I…

  • Creating your own Business: Giving to yourself

    Creating your own Business: Giving to yourself

    I’m starting my own business…again.  The first time was back in 2007. In 2006 I left my corporate job.  I was tired and needed a longer break than your standard vacation.  There were only two options to get a leave of absence in this company.  One was to hold a position of a certain hierarchical…

  • Happy New Year!

    I look forward to every New Year.  Not for the party on December 31st, which rarely is as exciting as they make it in the movies, and in my experience is often the exact opposite of the movies. I look forward to January 1st.  It feels clean and new.  It’s a new notebook, a fresh…

  • Hustle & Bustle

    Hustle & Bustle

    I, like many people right now, am running around like a chicken with my head cut off.  I’ve got long lists of to do and seem to just keep making new to do lists, followed by consolidating these lists into larger lists.  Somehow it seems like nothing is getting done and the lists are growing.…

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