Tagged: Career

Scaling Back to Rev Up Your Career

Scaling Back to Rev Up Your Career

    I know it’s a cliché, but your perception really is your reality. What would you be willing to do to achieve your goal? What would you be willing to give up? I was at a conference last weekend and heard a highly successful consultant and writer talking about her business plan. It wasn’t what you would expect from a person earning a six-figure salary working for some of the major companies in the U.S. and abroad.

      Why do I say that? She wanted to take a year off from consulting and care for her newborn and launch different areas [...]

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Is It Really A Failure? Tell Your Story Backwards

Is It Really A Failure? Tell Your Story Backwards

     Mistakes? How do you perceive them? Do you avoid them or learn from them? How you react to life circumstances that seem like mistakes? Your responses to these questions tell a lot about your approach towards success. I have not come across a successful person yet who did not have their fair share of mistakes and yes, failure. In fact the most successful people in general have the most failures. Why is this? Because taking risks reaps the greatest reward, this reward might not be solely monetarily. What you learn from and how you respond to failure often leads [...]

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Creating a Vision For A Successful Career

Creating a Vision For A Successful Career

I’ve been blogging a lot about getting to know your strengths and weaknesses and starting to see how they are working for you in your current career and personal life. Hopefully, you have gained some insight into where your abilities can take you. Now, it’s time to evaluate your vision, and I don’t mean your eyesight. I was reminded of how vision helps people accomplish their goals when I watched a show I love that focuses on adventure sports like rock climbing, parachuting, and snowboarding. This particular episode showed a skier doing some kind of double, back flip twist over a high [...]

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The Key To Success: Defining Your Strengths

The Key To Success: Defining Your Strengths

In the last blog I discussed that finding your essential self and strengths can help you in choosing a better career path and building a better life. Some of you may be still trying to figure out how this fits into the big picture. For others it may seem like a daunting task. But the truth is, it’s easy to find yourself.

Marcus Buckingham, the author of Go Put Your Strengths To Work, helps individuals identify their strengths. He then helps them create lives and careers that suit these strengths. I was reading his blog the other day and [...]

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