4 Tenacity Lessons For Your Personal Brand

4 Tenacity Lessons For Your Personal Brand We know that passion is critical in personal branding. After all it is  our passion that drives us to communicate our unique promise of value. But is it only passion  that pushes our personal brand forward, or is there something else at play? We can be passionate,  but also lazy and simply sit back and hope things will change. Our passion might get us out of bed in the morning, but is it what keeps us going throughout the day?  After looking for some insight, all signs seem to point to one word:  Tenacity! Without tenacity all of our passion and motivation will just be lip service.  Here is what others have said about tenacity: 1. Leonard Brody Pure unadulterated tenacity This clip by Leonard Brody at World Entrepreneurship Day sums it up is perfectly.  There still needs to be a true passion within you to lead your own charge. But this needs to be matched with what he calls pure unadulterated tenacity. I love what he says about being willing to take 10 punches to the stomach and get up ready to take the 11th! 2. Garr Reynolds Anything of real worth will take much struggle and perseverance In Japanese there is the saying  Fall down seven times, get up eight.  It is a proverb that demonstrates Japanese resilience and tenacity you continue to get right back up no matter how many times you get knocked down. Garr Reynolds wrote about this in his  Presentation Zen blog  after the huge earthquake and tsunami devastated the Tohoku region of northern Japan. Garr reminds us that: there are no quick fixes in life and anything of real worth will necessarily take much struggle and perseverance. Success does not have to be fast whats more important is that one simply does their absolute best and remain persistent. 3. Steve Ballmer Dont have passion, have tenacity A recent  Forbes article by Brian Solomon  offers billionaires tips for new graduates from the likes of Oprah, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and others. The one that jumped out for me was what Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, had to say: Passion is the ability to get excited about something. Irrepressibility and tenacity is about the ability to stay with it. You get some success. You run into some walls. You try a formula for a new idea, a new innovation, it doesn’t work. And it’s how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success. 4. Steve Jobs Stay hungry. Stay foolish Steve Jobs reference to this message in his infamous 2005 Stanford University commencement speech capsulizes tenacity in my mind. By staying hungry we push ourselves to achieve great things, and by staying foolish we throw caution to the wind to take the calculated risks needed to continue on our path. Be tenacious and leave your mark Tap into your passions to build your personal brand, but more importantly have the tenacity to leave your mark in everything you do.  Even in the face of criticism be ready for that 11th punch in the gut, get up 8 times after falling down 7, be irrepressible, and always stay hungry, stay foolish! RELATED: The Secret of Personal Branding

21 Social Media for HR Tips You Ought to Know

21 Social Media for HR Tips You Ought to Know Heisann… (That’s “Hey There” Or “Hello” in Norwegian). My grandfather was Norwegian. That was for him! I was lucky to have him in my life. Anyways, I was reminded this past week that social and HR is hard. I am immersed in social media every day. Comes at me all the time. I rarely talk about social media unless I am asked because it feels like I am talking about a telephone. I would rather use a telphone than talk about how it works. That line is for you Joe! I use social for HR to network, share, recruit, engage with employees, build communities, lead ideas and snoop on what other HR Pros are doing with social and HR. I also use it for employment branding for my company @EnergizerJobs . So you could say I work in social with HR. If that is your goal, interest, situation or opportunity then I would like to point out a few things about social and HR. This is not a tirade, just my thoughts. My purpose of this list is to share with others the problems I have discovered in the last few years. If you work in a big corporation and in HR, chances are you have experienced some of this stuff. The problem with social and HR is that… You have to go first. Being the first HR Pro to do social for you company is like converting people to a new religon. You believe it, but others do not. Even though you may not know much about your social media journey, stay true to your beliefs. You have to be comfortable being a chameleon. You must speak and translate between two HR cultures. Traditional cultures who have little experience with it and the social media culture who know it and want to learn how it can help our industry. Careful with the traditional culture. Their ignorance can make your days long. You need to figure out how social canâ€" save your company money with recruiting, improve engagement, increase brand visibility (i.e., employment branding), attracting talent and share your company’s vision. You need to find metrics to measure this. HR Pros love measurement and goals. Your CEO needs social to share his/her vision of the company. The quarterly town hall is not enough. If you work at a big (greater than 10k people) global company very few people know the vision of the CEO or president. Your job as the social HR Pro is to get them to believe in using it to share their vision. Some people will give you lip service that social for HR is important, but have no idea why it is important. Many senior HR leaders will want to learn more, but not commit to doing social. This will leave you feeling lonely. Don’t give up. HR Pros are paid to manage liabilities. Many will see social for HR as another liability. Show them how it can help. See point #3 above. In the  beginning, doing social for HR will add more work to your plate. So be smarter with it. Use it to do your normal (i.e., recruit, network, communicate, engage) HR work better. This will enhance your work like a the remote control did for your TV watching. You will meet new people and know your existing network better. Use social to interact, then meet in real life. Meet the people you interact with online in real life. When you do it well, it will look easy. Nobody will care or realize how much work it took. Same way nobody calls your payroll team to thank them for paying them correct and on time. No body will call you to say you did a good job. Social and HR work isn’t glamorous. You don’t get paid any extra money either. If you screw something up with social and HR it is public. My advice is to screw up when you are small and nobody is watching. Learn from those screw-ups, then do it better next time. You won’t get fired. Just don’t be stupid. And please don’t ask me what stupid looks like. Don’t wait for approval to do social and HR. It will never come. Take authority of social before it is given to you. Your business leaders expect you to be using it to bring them talent. Stop right now and go ask them. I bet they agree. If you build a strong public presence, some HR Pros will think you are all about becoming “famous”. That’s not your problem. You will be critiqued by people in a mean way. Go buy your tissues now. You will be critiqued by HR Pros who have no idea what they are talking about. Some of your ideas will be new and exciting to you and old news to everyone else. Social is fast paced. You will have no resources to make this happen. Find believers in your network and work with them. They will help you. Nobody in HR will care when you get a ReTweet by someone cool on Twitter. Even if it means 1,829 talented people just saw something cool about your company. There is a fine line between promotion of self and promotion of people. Social is about the people. Always, always…always promote other people. If you are introducing social to HR, I pray for you. You will be asking people to use their imagination to do stuff in HR in a different way. This is a new experience to them. So to round off my list like a game of Black Jack….here is the 21st thing that will make it worth it…. Inside each problem with social and HR is an opportunity to lead. There is an opportunity to reach out and build something with people that we can’t build alone. People want to help. People want to make your company better and themselves better while they are at it. Your job is to show them why they should help, then how they can help. The HR transformation is going on around us and will keep going on. Has been for my 13 years of HR. Use social to speed up the transformation. Social media will soon be like the telephone. Another cool tool that can help us do our jobs better. In the meantime, I will go back to using social for HR. It’s much easier. Bet you could add to this list. What do you think people need to know about doing social and HR? Related: How Recruiters Can Get Started with Social Media.

How to Make Your Home a Pinterest-Worthy Space - Classy Career Girl

How to Make Your Home a Pinterest-Worthy Space How to Make Your Home a Pinterest-Worthy Space Your home is your castle, your place of solitude and rejuvenation. Picking the perfect home isnt easy and neither is decorating it. Your home is more than four walls, a roof, a place to shovel down your breakfast and store all your stuff. Your house should reflect you and your personal style while still beckoning you and visitors to linger longer among its four walls. Its a place where family gathers and where memories are made. It should be your favorite place to go and your hardest place to leave. This is the difference between a house and a home and making your house a home isnt as overwhelming as one might think. Think of your home as a blank canvas to tell your story. Design and decorate your space with items and elements that make you happy. No need to be too serious or feel like you need to take a cookie-cutter approach to a certain space. Throw caution to the wind as well as any former expectations you have on what is and isnt acceptable for different rooms. The world is your oyster and the design possibilities are endless. Its all about mixing and matching, scale, balance, lines, texture, and color to create a cohesive and timeless space that reflects you and your dynamic personality. Everyone has an eye for style, a personal one that reflects who they are, train that eye, trust it and follow it in the designing of your home your home is your story and should reflect it, not the pages of a clinical catalog. Any home enthusiast, fashionista, DIY diva or travel enthusiast will know Pinterest is the most inspiring and desirable place on the internet. A virtual visual board where you are able to curate your favorite things from fashion to home decor. Its a place to express your creative ideas and aspirations for all aspects of your life, but how do you take your virtual dream boards and bring them to reality, to your own wardrobe or home? Giving your home that Pinterest-feel is a lot easier than it looks. With a few simple guidelines, you can turn your house not just into a home but into a Pinterest worthy home. How to Make Your Home a Pinterest-Worthy Space Color Contrast With a myriad of colors to choose from, picking the right color scheme you want for the look and feel of your home can be daunting. In fact, painting alone can be quite a challenging task but a fresh coat of paint can make a significant impact on your space’s mood and feel, and therefore be thought about carefully. The best way to select colors for your house is to use the color wheel as your guideline as it illustrates the relationship between the different colors. This gives you a clearer understanding of how to choose colors the right way and how to work with different shades to achieve the perfect look for your home. Choose colors that you love, that make you happy and that offer continuity throughout your house. Know that is anything is possible and that you can have the best of both worlds. Dont be afraid to add special and unique color touches that speak to your personality and your sense of style. When looking at the color wheel there are a few things to consider. Most colors go well together when utilizing the same hues. Colors next to each other on the chart also are appealing when used together. Colors look good when paired with their opposites. (These are known as complementary colors). Color psychology also plays a part in picking the perfect color for your home. Color psychology is the study of how our brain perceives color; how each color has a different reaction with our brain and a different way in which we internalize it, thus colors have the power to manipulate our feelings and mood. Every color, whether it is warm, neutral, or cool, are affiliated with certain connotations that have the power to affect usto make us feel the certain things they stand for. How colors will contribute to your feelings and mood should contribute to your color choices. You should consider exactly what feelings you want to evoke in certain rooms, do you want to feel joy, creativity, and success or do you want to feel freshness, fertility, and safety? Figuring out what atmosphere you want to feel in each of your rooms should give you some guidance on what colors will best suit them. There is nothing wrong with mixing different shades from both the cool and warm spectrum as long as you feel they coordinate well and suit your personal style. Use colors and color psychology to enhance your color choices. Remember that this is your space and you have the freedom to decorate as you see fit. Let the colors guide you into creating a space that is not only beautiful to look at but when in it makes you feel happy and fulfilled. Create a welcoming atmosphere with an array of magnificent colors that speak to you. For more tips on picking the colors that are right for you check out this YouTube video below. Editing Shelving Shelving is one of the most common and essential forms of storage seen in almost every home. It does not only do a great job of displaying all your belongings but demonstrates your sense of style and your ability to edit your design finesse. However, shelving can either be a hit or a miss. Shelving can be used either as a place to store odds and ends, cluttering your home with an array of weird trinkets you have collected over the years or be used to display and store important personal belonging and items relative to your space. Whether youre looking for shelving with a natural look and feel or timber shelving with a more modern aesthetic, there are steps to take in order to ensure there are steps you need to take in order to ensure that you make the best use of your shelves. Start Fresh Start off by using what you already own.  Shelving can be rework and redesign only using a few simple design hacks.  However, first, you should remove all the contents off your shelf to reveal its natural framework and design. If you tend to hoard, set up staging areas where, while decluttering your shelves, you can move its contents into different categories such as recycle, donate and trash. This will minimize your chances of re-cluttering your newly redone shelves. Be Your Own Editor The job of an editor is tough. Having to eliminate things from a picture in order to achieve an overall look that is effective in its design and function can be difficult, especially when the stuff is your own. However, this step is vital and evaluating items one by one and deciding if they are actually worth the space they take up in your home is an essential step in achieving the ultimate Pinterest-worthy space.  Ask yourself certain questions when determining if this item should stay or go. How high is the items sentimental value? When last did you utilize the items function? How will this item fit in with the overall look you hope to achieve? The key to a great Pinterest home is good editing It’s important to know what look you are aiming for within your space; are you looking to create a filled and busy space or one thats more modern and minimalist. These are all questions you need to ask yourself. Categorize After editing the content of your shelves its important to group your saved items into categories. These categories are entirely up to you and are dependent upon the shelves purpose and room in question. If the shelve functionality is more important to the space than its design, then your categories will be different. Categories will be used to help you create a visual inventory of all the things youre going to put back on your shelves. You can categorize these items into various categories such as: Color Like most things in interior design, its important to be clear and consistent. Having a color palette is no different. Its important to have a color palette already implemented within the room, however, dont be afraid to experiment and bend the rules within the chocolorlour pallet. Use that color palette to help you make choices about certain items for your shelf. Size They say that size doesnt matter but in this instance size is everything. Too many tiny trinkets on your shelf can look cluttered, messy and be overly stimulating to look at. You are trying to create a cohesive look that appears natural and lived, in but still contains some kind of creative order. Its good to have a mix-match of sizes on your shelf as they bring about different levels and a higher interest peak. Wallpaper Once youve cleared your shelving contents and youre looking at your bare framed shelving and dont like what you see, dont hesitate to give the shelf a varnish, sand or fresh coat of paint. Small differences can bring about a whole new look to your shelves as well as new ideas of the trinkets to place on it. A new shelf trend making its way through Pinterest is the dressing up of the shelves with a quirky wallpaper, paint color, or texture. This design feature is super effective at introducing some subtle hints of color and brings the viewer’s attention to the content on the shelf. It also creates a sense of depth and can provide a complementary or contrasting element to the room. Variety Variety is the part of styling that grants so much freedom. Dont be afraid to mix and match different decor items. Objects, art, sculptures, books, collections and even plants provide a healthy mix of organic and synthetic to create a harmonious look. These objects add personality and allow you to express your design creativity. They create depth and give insight to visitors as to who you are and where your passions lie. Greenery Plants have an incredible power to give life to an entire room. They are symbolic reminders of nature and help to purify the air. They are this year’s must-have home accessory and you can never have too many. A Balanced Space Having a good eye for interior isnt just about making great stuff look great; its about externalizing how you see the world through the concept of balance. The balance of smooth vs texture, heavy vs light, color vs neutrals, old vs new, and warm vs cool. The texture makes things interesting. Its all about what you love. Some people love perfect symmetry while others prefer things slightly off-center. Knowing what you like and what works is all about trial and error. The trick to a well-balanced room: keep the flow of your room moving so your eye doesnt rest in one dominant area. Light The right lighting in a room has the ability to change not only the mood and feel of a space but also the space’s perceived size. Placement and type of lights are all-important aspects of interior design. They work in conjunction with color, texture, and position to bring the room together. Directional Lighting Lighting in a room can either provide illumination for the entire room or highlight specific elements. Special pictures, mirrors, and features within your space can be further highlighted through the use of directional lighting, either fixed or hung from the ceiling. This is a great way to bring warmth into your space as well as show snippets of your personality and what it is that you deem valuable. Natural Lighting Natural lighting is a win for any room, however, too much and not enough can completely change the room’s feel and space size. Natural lighting has a huge impact on the desired feel of a space, however, this design element isnt as easy to change as some other elements, and requires a fair bit of money to start adding windows into your already built house. Despite skylights and mirrors will help reflect already existing light into a room and make the space feel lighter, brighter and bigger. If a room that feels too light, and you want to generate more warmth and security, there are ways. With the application of frosted or tinted glass, you can add shape and depth to your home’s natural lighting. Use different design shapes or elements within the frosted glass to take your design flair to the next level. When taking on the challenge of decorating your home remember that you are ‘making’ a home and that its something that is curated over time. It is an intimate exercise, a personal one, and one exercise that should be executed with love, passion, and excitement. Your home is a personal representation of you and your family. It should be filled with things that you love, memories youve made and the blueprint for future adventures. It should be filled with items that remind you who you are, what you love, where youve been and where you plan to go. It should evolve over time and just like a good bottle of red, it will just get better with age.

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Activities to Put on a Resume

Activities to Put on a ResumeActivities to put on a resume are very important. Many employers will make use of this information when making their hiring decisions. It is for this reason that resume writing companies exist. It is important that you make sure that you include activities that are in line with the job you are applying for.In addition, it is also important that you ensure that the resume you send has the correct information. This means that you should not include any extraneous information such as any credits or certificates that you might have received while attending school. You should also be able to submit a resume without the use of any software or other technical equipment. This means that you should avoid using pen and paper and instead you should use one of the software programs available.It is essential that you ensure that your resume contains all of the necessary information for showing the employer the proper job responsibilities. The activities to put on a re sume will allow the employer to see how interested you are in the position that you are applying for. This will help you to stand out from the rest of the applicants for the job.Another important factor to consider when considering activities to put on a resume is whether they can help to get the employer to contact you. This can be especially true if you have a previous employment record that shows that you have been friendly and outgoing. It is important that the resume is well written so that it will be as convincing as possible that you are serious about the position. To do this, you should write the objective of the resume before you begin to fill it out.When filling out the resume, you should include all of the information that is required. There is no point in sending an unfocused resume. If you are able to send the resume in quickly, the employer will be able to get an idea of what you will be offering.As you go through the process of creating the resume, you should keep in mind that you need to know the details of the job that you are looking for. This means that you should read all of the requirements that are on the job listing. This information will be used by the resume writing company in order to create the perfect resume.An activity to put on a resume should be easy to understand. It should also be impressive and convincing. This means that you should make sure that you make sure that the resume is specific and up to date. If you are not able to update it every few months, then you should consider creating another resume.You should avoid using resumes that are full of errors. Although you may be able to catch them as you are creating the resume, many people will pick them up and use them anyway. It is important that you make sure that you send a resume that is error free.

The Most Paralyzing Blocks We Need To Overcome To Do Our Best Work - Kathy Caprino

The Most Paralyzing Blocks We Need To Overcome To Do Our Best Work This week, I had a career consultation with a client that hit me right between the eyes. While I’ve delivered hundreds of laser-focused consulting sessions in the past, in this one, it was clear in literally 10 minutes why this individual had struggled for 20 years in her work as an attorney, and what she needed to do to change that. A powerful realization emerged for both of us â€" that how she internally conceived of, and viewed her work with divorce had been triggering significant pain and emotional trauma from her childhood. I’m seeing more clearly than ever that the way people speak and write about their work, the way they frame it and emotionally relate to it reveals exactly what’s in the way of their moving forward to a happier life. And from their responses to my Career Path Self-Assessment survey (a specially-designed set of questions I wish someone had asked me when I was just starting out and that all professionals need to answer), they reveal striking clues about the pain, negative internal messaging and emotional struggles from the past that are now hampering their ability to move forward to craft a joyful livelihood. Literally every single client of mine in the past 10 years who is stuck in an unhappy career is struggling with at least one of the six common blocks to progress. On the flip side, the highly successful and happy professionals I work with who find joy, reward, and passion in their work have overcome these blocks, either intentionally or organically. I believe that it’s an inevitable aspect of our human condition to have developed subconscious mindsets, beliefs and blocks that will somehow, at some point, thwart and undermine our happiness and success unless we work to uncover and resolve them. I’ve faced all six of these blocks myself in my 30 years of professional life, and can attest to how damaging they are. Below are the six core blocks that successful professionals have overcome to be happy and well-rewarded in their work. And these six blocks keep others stuck in career misery, confusion and paralysis. Block 1: The outcomes you are striving for are, in some core way, conflicting with what you believe is good, right and true. You simply can’t succeed if you’re in a tangle about the outcomes you’re focused on achieving in your work. Years ago in my corporate life, I found that the marketing work I was doing felt very wrong to me. I was promoting products that I felt had no real meaning or benefit to customers, and our sweepstakes promotions were attracting people desperate to win big money because they couldn’t pay their bills. They didn’t want our products; they wanted to win money (I’d listen in to our telemarketing calls for the sweepstakes promotions and my heart would break). In the end, I hated the outcomes I was paid to achieve. You will not achieve success (emotional, financial, professional or otherwise) if you can’t get behind the outcomes you’re bringing about in your work. Shift your work focus so that you’re proud of and fully behind the outcomes you’re striving for, advertising and promoting. Ask yourself: What are the critical outcomes my work currently focuses on? Now…how excited and supportive am I, really, about these outcomes? Block 2: Your shaken confidence and faltering self-esteem have impaired your ability to see that you’re worth great money and respect in the workplace. How well you’re doing professionally is inextricably linked to your relationship with and feelings about money and self-worth. If you feel, for instance, that you need to keep your service prices down to the bare minimum (where you’re not earning anything) because you aren’t sure what you’re worth (or you think that charging a lot is “bad”), you’ll most likely fail in your business. There are ways to be of service to every budget, certainly, but you need to build a smart, flexible, multi-tiered business model that allows you to serve both those with and without access to money. You can do that many different ways including offering high-quality free materials and low-cost products as well as higher-cost services and programs. But in the end, you’ll go broke if you think that charging good money is a bad thing or that you’re not worthy anything to anyone. In another example, as you’re going out in the world interviewing and applying for jobs, if you subconsciously doubt that you are worthy of being well-paid, you never will get the offers and recognition you deserve. There are many ways to earn great money doing soulful, mission-driven work, but again, you need to be clear about your beliefs around what you “should” be earning and charging and how you feel about being wealthy or well-paid. If you have any shame about charging well, then you’ll need to heal to issues around self-confidence and self-esteem, and gain more clarity about the great skills and talents you have to offer. Ask yourself: What do I feel I truly deserve in terms of compensation for my work? How do I feel about being well-compensated, even wealthy, doing this work? What holds me back from earning more? Block 3: You persistently doubt that you are smart, talented or experienced enough to succeed at what you want. My goodness, I’d be a millionaire if I had a dime for every person I’ve worked with who doubts the power and usefulness of her smarts, experience and abilities. Thousands of people I’ve worked with have suffered from some degree of “unworthiness” (and I have too). If you’re feeling that you really don’t have the talent, brains, expertise or experience to be valuable in the direction you long to, you’ll have to address this block proactively. You need to look first at where you got the idea you’re “nothing” or not enough, and secondly, you need a realistic assessment of what’s required to succeed in the field or direction you wish to pursue. If you need additional experience or training, then go out and get it. Find a way. If you’re solid right where you are (with no need for more training or experience), stop yourself from your chronic put downs and from thinking you don’t have what it takes. Fake it until you become it (see Amy Cuddy’s powerful Ted talk for more on this). If you don’t know if you need more training or experience, do some exploratory online and in-person research with people, recruiters and hiring managers in the field and figure it out once and for all. Ask yourself: Do I believe I have the talent and expertise (and worthiness) to be a tremendous success at what I long to do? If not, what step can I take today? Block 4: You were culturally trained and taught that it’s not right or good to shine too brightly or stand out. No matter what field or function you’re in today, you have to be able to broadcast in powerful, engaging ways what you’re great at (your “superpower”), and you have to do it both online and in person. You need other people to help you succeed and thrive, and to engage others, you need to talk about what you do incredibly well (and everyone has something that they’re amazing at). Become more comfortable sharing what excites and enthralls you, and stimulating others by your passion and your mission. If that’s too challenging, get some support to overcome this resistance. Start by reading my book Breakdown, Breakthrough and Peggy Klaus’s book Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It, and take steps to begin speaking and sharing about yourself and your work in engaging and compelling ways. Ask yourself: Was I raised or conditioned to think that shining my light too brightly was garish, arrogant, unseemly or not humble enough? Was I shamed by my family when I shone too brightly? Was there someone else in my family I was told not to outshine? Block 5: You have been taught that following your passion is a huge mistake â€" you believe it will hurt you or you’ll end up broke or miserable if you do. The people who are the most successful and joyful (and empowered) in life have followed their passions, values, integrity and interests to a very high degree. They know what they’re made of, and they aren’t afraid to pursue an “unsure” path because they understand that the happiest lives are about being of use and making a difference in ways that matter. They know how they uniquely contribute and they won’t be stopped in delivering those contributions. Because of their indifference to the “sure” path, they are risk tolerant and have found great joy and security within themselves. On the other hand, there are thousands of people who were taught and trained by their parents that following their passions for work would be a disaster â€" crazy, irresponsible and stupid. Many of these folks were potentially well-meaning authority figures who wanted security for their children. Sadly, their dogged insistence that “following your passion will lead to failure” generated a very negative result. These parents stripped their adult children of the ability to think for themselves, and live by their own beliefs, values, and standards, independently and confidently. What to do? Complete my Career Path Self-Assessment and brainstorm every day for a full week about what you would pursue if money, time, support, etc. were no object. What would you research, explore and try on, and what new directions would you identify as desirable? Identify the visions you could, in actuality, commit to bringing into reality. And determine the activities that you’re passionate about that should remain as hobbies vs. endeavors you wish to explore making at a living in. If you don’t know, start talking to people doing work you’re interested in, and shadow folks engaged in what you think you want to do. Try on the professional identity. When you do, you’ll learn quickly if it’s for you. Ask yourself: Do you believe that following your passion for your work will end badly? Who taught you that and what was their motivation and (hidden) agenda? Block 6: You think you must chuck everything and leave your old career totally behind to be happy. This is the most misguided belief of all. You don’t necessarily have to leave your old identity and your old work completely behind to have a happier life. More often, it’s a pivot or a tweak â€" in direction, focus, outcomes, those you’re helping, and how you’re operating in the world â€" that will bring the most fulfillment, not chucking everything and completely starting over. In fact, the pain you’re feeling won’t go away if you just run â€" it will follow you wherever you go unless you learn how to BE different â€" and see things differently â€" in the world. Take the time this month to explore ways you can draw on what you’ve already learned, done and achieved. Identify 3 new directions that could potentially marry up and make great use of everything you are already, and everything you’ve learned and done. Understand who you are and the great skills, talents and abilities you already possess, and find new ways to leverage those. If any of these blocks resonate with you, there’s work to be done. Don’t waste another minute remaining paralyzed in unhappy, unrewarding work. For more about how to do your best work to live your best life, visit The Amazing Career Project online course, Breakdown, Breakthrough and kathycaprino.com.

Stressed-Out Job Seekers - CareerAlley

Stressed-Out Job Seekers - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. Author Unknown Author Byline: Joshua Waldman, CareerEnlightenment.net Author Website: http://careerenlightenment.net/confidence/stressed-out-job-seekers HOUSE: I love the cranky bastard. During last years season finale of the TV show House, though, I learned something and that is the absolute power our right brain has over our lives. The parallel is drawn between Houses patient, whose right brain doesnt communicate with his left brain, and his own dissociative hallucinations. The patients left hand (right brain) seems to have a mind of its own. His hand throws things at people, slaps people, and even pinches himself. Yes, weird. The right brain, home of our subconscious minds functions, controls not only our left-side motor functions, but also 95 percent of our behavior. Hey, did you think you made that choice today, or did your right brain choose? (For hard-core neurologists, you know this isnt 100 percent true, but bear with me for a moment!) The patients left arm (right brain) was unable to use language to communicate, so it used emotional responses. Slapping, throwing things, and scratching through his own skin. His right brain was trying to tell him a message. Heres the kicker: When we are under stress, our left and right hemispheres seem to lose neurological connection as well left brain and right brain fail to communicate. We become like that patient; our subconscious mind may actually have a solution to the cause of our stress, but cant communicate it to us. This is the definition of Stress. Are you stressed about your job search? Chances are your left and right brains need some reconciliation. SOLUTION: Meditate. Ha. Many people have tried that, and after dressing in black robes, burning incense and chanting OM for about 5 minutes, their legs hurt and they go get a Ben Jerrys. Here is a quick little tool that non-meditators can use to repair the communication with the smarter half pretend you have a lemon in your hand. Feel it. Smell it. Taste it. Use a real lemon if you have no sense of imagination left from all those Starbucks mocha low-fat cups. Throw the lemon from your left hand to your right hand about 10 times, keeping your gaze straight ahead. Then imagine that you have put the lemon on top of your head. Your eyes should be focused straight up. As high up as they can look. Hold that for a moment then come back to neutral. Notice how much calmer you are, maybe even more confident. You may begin to think more clearly, and even be more effective in your job search. Practice connecting up the function of your left brain and your right brain you can exercise your body, you can exercise your brain, and with just a little practice you can improve the connections among them. Try it now and tell me how it works. Article courtesy of the Recruiting Blogswap, a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com, a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching for entry level jobs and other career opportunities. Good luck in your search.Visit me on Facebook