Nugget 1 : If you have decided it’s a career change you need, stop pussy footing about by moving your crappy job into another organisation – this is not a career change, it’s a job move! Same c**p, different place.
Nugget 2: Work on your career change 10x to 100x more committed than a change of job! In the end you will have a greater reward, which has nothing to do with a pay check!
Nugget 3: Determine how much you are worth an hour!
And start acting as if you already have it.
Nugget 4: Get a system in place so that each role you are applying for is not a weeklong chore.
Nugget 5: You make the rules for you career change, no one else. Don’t let other people who are not earning a living doing what they love tell you how it should be done.
Nugget 6: Create your career around your life, instead of settling for a life around your job.
Nugget 7: Focus on what is meaningful : and relevant, give your career change the attention it deserves and cut out the stuff that holds your attention, that is wasting you valuable emotional time and space.
Nugget 8: You owe it to yourself not to shut doors on ideas before you even start, others will do this for you instead!
Nugget 9: Find people that can help you. In your search, research, knowledge, skills and experience. We all don’t know everything!
Nugget 10: Get feedback for everything you put out. Didn’t get the interview? Tthen stop blaming and find out why, so you can learn, amend and move on.
Nugget 11: Put aside all the belittling and negativity of others telling what you should be doing, if their actions aren’t true, say nothing.
Nugget 12: Ask yourself the right questions ‘why’, who’, ‘when’, ‘how’, ‘what’ and ‘where’, to come up with solutions. All other questions are statements.
Nugget 13: Know what you are brilliant AT.
Nugget 14: Remove the word ‘but’ from your language and replace it with however!
Nugget 15: Realise that you career is never done, until the day you are done! Get over it. What you choose today does not have to be your tomorrow!
Nugget 16: Remove all the risk that people think about you.
Nugget 17: Always keep a few unique pieces of you hidden until you need them.
Nugget 18: Can you sell you? Would you ‘buy’ from you?
Nugget 19: You always have choices, accept the fact that they are staring you in the face! Open your mind.
Nugget 20: Out there are people that are wiser, cleverer, more knowledgeable and better than you. So what and who cares? The only person you have to convince is a potential employer.
Nugget 21: Mastermind with people that open you to possibilities, even if you can’t see a way in, find one.
Nugget 22: Create a bigger impression, and be the first person to get into the mind of an employer.
Nugget 23: Never past through any success too quickly, no matter how small.
Nugget 24: Do the unexpected.
Nugget 25: Get a LIFE! Your career is an extention of you.
Nugget 26: Give back…the most important of all. Help someone else out for nothing in return.
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