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How does your personal branding message cut through the noise?

October 14, 2009

If you’ve ever been to a networking event, you’ve probably had an experience like this: you meet fifteen or twenty people, and exchange business cards. You have perfectly professional conversations, talking about all the important companies that you’ve worked for, and the projects that you’ve worked on.
Then you go home, and you really remember two [...]

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“Dream” is the ultimate action verb

October 7, 2009

Do you have dreams, or plans?
If you don’t have plans, then you don’t really have dreams at all. You have wishes — the kind of things that you hope that a fairy will come and grant for you, that with a *poof* will magically come to be.
You may have noticed I have a thing for [...]

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5 Ways to Get Unstuck Today to Achieve Your Goals

September 22, 2009

Are you stuck in a Geico commercial?
You know the one. Unsuspecting men and women are pursued by a stack of money with enormous, plastic googly eyes. “You could be saving money,” the eyes imply with their accusatory stare.
Perhaps you’re not being stalked by anthropomorphic cash, but you may very well have a set of googly [...]

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Visualizing your non-SMART goals: the vision board

September 16, 2009

What do you want to accomplish before the end of the year?  Before the end of the month?  What about just today?

How clear are you on your goals?

SMART goals are often touted in the business world. For the uninitiated, SMART goals stands for:

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely

Writing SMART goals is an exercise in specificity. You get as clear as [...]

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Keeping motivated: Track your progress

August 25, 2009

What’s the longest-term goal that you’re working on right now?
It might be something a few weeks away, months or even years.  The really big goals — things like college degrees, career advancement, planning for retirement — tend to be in the “years” category.
Achieving goals with years-long timelines can be really difficult, as it’s hard to [...]

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Your personal “best”: Authenticity and your job search

July 30, 2009

The Career Adventure newsletter has a new look — it’s now the Career Kick Start!  One minute’s worth of immediately useful career advice delivered weekly.  And it’s free, as is the Results Focused Resume ebook (available through August 5).  You can get both here.
Success in a job interview requires your very best suit, your very [...]

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What is your goal? A job, or the job?

July 29, 2009

This week, Liz Strauss shared this little video on her blog about focusing on the opportunity rather than the job.  Yes, there is a difference.

The distinction here is an important one.  So often people are so focused on what they feel like is the greatest need at this precise moment — often, that’s simply an [...]

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Are you the phoenix? Coping with career challenges

July 27, 2009

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix
–Christina Baldwin
Every hundred years or so, the mythical phoenix torches itself and its nest, to be reborn anew from a single red egg.

The phoenix appears in the mythology of many cultures, and although there are variations on the story, the dramatic fiery rebirth [...]

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The “What if?” factor

July 17, 2009

“What if?” — two of the most powerful words in the English language.
They can be both your motive power and your barrier.
They open the world of possibilities, but open also doubts.
“What if I get this fantastic new job?”
“What if I bomb the interview?”
“What if my boss recognizes all the work that I put in on [...]

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15 minutes a day to more productive work

July 10, 2009

In my house, no crime is more likely to end up in instant dismemberment than scuffing my Precious Portfolio.
I have a beautiful, classic black leather portfolio from Levenger that I use for all of my business “stuff.”  I carried it to meetings at my last job, I carried it to interviews when I was in [...]

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