Career Change Workbook

A question that I am often asked is “How can I make a career change during such turbulent economic times?” While it is true that the state of the economy is extremely fragile, I also believe that the way out of this is to do work that we are passionate about. When we love what we do, we are more productive and have a true vested interest in the outcome of our work.

 

There are many out there who would say that to have job satisfaction right now is a luxury. They say that we should all be happy just to have a job. But what if going to work is draining you of your energy and only contributing to your stress and unhappiness? I believe there must be a better way to live. Who knows how long we will be in this economic slump? If you can find another job that you are happy in, isn’t that worth it?

 

In response to this, I have created a self-guided Career Change Workbook that you can download as a pdf. In this workbook you will find different exercises that help you to get clear on what type of work would be most fulfilling for you. It includes exercises such as:

 

 

1.    Career Assessment Questions

2.    Ideal Job Exercise

3.    Strengths Finder

4.    SMART Goal Creation

5.    Resume Writing Tips

6.    Recommended Reading List

 

 

 

For $15.95, you will be on your way to transitioning into a more fulfilling and successful career!

 

 

To download the Career Change Workbook, click on the below link:

http://tinyurl.com/CareerChange

 

Feel free to contact me with any questions or to just bounce ideas off of me.

 

Looking forward to hearing your success stories!

 

Looking Forward

As an alternative to the traditional New Year’s “resolutions,” I thought I’d pass on 5 questions to answer. Take some time to sit down and write down your answers to the below questions. Feel free to send them on to me as I love hearing what you are all up to!

1. If you could create a title for what your year will be like starting with “Year of…”, what would it be? (ex: “Year of Growing and Nourishing My Family”)

2. Rate your current level of satisfaction with each of the areas below on a scale of 1-10. Create one goal for each area.

Health
Career
Money/Finance
Significant Other/Romance
Friends
Family
Physical Environment
Fun & Recreation
Personal/Spiritual Growth
Self Image
Knowledge

3. What will you have accomplished or changed that would make you most proud at the end of 2009?

4. What two steps could you immediately take that would make the biggest difference in your life?

5. What one thing would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Reflective Questions for 2008

 

As we approach the end to another year, I thought it would be beneficial to send out some questions to reflect on the year we’ve had. Try to go somewhere quiet and write out the answers to the below questions:

 

1.    What are you most proud of in the last year?

2.    If there were a newspaper headline describing this past year for you, what would it say?

3.    What unfinished business do you want to resolve before the year end and when will you do it? (i.e. lingering relationships, apologies, goals yet to achieve)

4.    When were you most excited about life in this past year? What were you doing? Who were you with?

5.    Looking back, what would you have done differently in 2008?

6.    Who most inspired you and why?

7.    What new dream for yourself did you achieve?

8.    Where did you let fear hold you back from a goal you had?

9.    What was boring to you this year that you hope to change for next year?

10.  On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with each area of your life in the past year?

Health ___

Career___

Money/Finances___

Significant Other/Romance___

Friends___

Family___

Physical Environment___

Fun & Recreation___

Personal/Spiritual Growth___

Self Image___

Knowledge___

 

Next year will be a very exciting one for me as we are expecting a little boy in February! I am sure that the experience will stretch me in ways that I didn’t know were possible. I am looking forward to sharing my experiences and continuing to stretch all of you to achieve things that you didn’t know were possible.

 

Wishing you all a warm and wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year!

Inspired by Michael Phelps

While I was glued to my tv the past few weeks watching the Olympics, I heard one of the announcers talk about Michael Phelps and his routine before he came out to swim a race. They said that before every race he writes down the time that he wants to swim on a piece of paper and folds it up. He doesn’t show it to anyone but puts it down on paper so he knows what he’s working towards.

I don’t know what the times were that he wrote down but I have a feeling that he achieved almost every one of them. I thought this provided great inspiration for being really clear on what you want. How can you acheive what you want if you aren’t clear on what that really is? So, I ask you, what is it that you really want to acheive?

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
- Michael Phelps