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Welcome
Career Transitions:Career Transitions:
How to Make How to Make Your Future a Your Future a RealityReality
Are You Ready To
Make Your Future a Make Your Future a Reality Through Career Reality Through Career
Transition?Transition?
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My Challenge to YOU
• What does “Work Yourself Happy” really mean?
• What “Work Yourself Happy” doesn’t mean.
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“Work Yourself Happy”
My Story
• What does all this mean to me?
• What does all this mean to you?“ I had a dream that I could
re-invent my career and design a life that works.”
“Nothing happens first
without a dream.”
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The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome:
• Our job is eliminated through downsizing.• Our company is acquired or merges with
another company and the new situation no longer appeals to us.
• Our job stays the same, we loose excitement.• Our company outsources our job with a job
proposal.
The “Great Fall” Occurs When
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After the “Great Fall”
• Understand that you are a self-employed entrepreneur.
• Understand that you are the CEO of your own company.
• Understand that it’s now up to YOU!
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The Five Secrets to Working Yourself Happy
#1 Accept that you must let go of the past.#2 Take a closer look at your previous endeavors.
#3 Get to know yourself really well.
#4 Create a destination with soul.
#5 Enjoy the journey.
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Secret
Secret
Secret
Secret
Secret
Stretch Break
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Your life is not about your work.
Create the work you love and live the life you deserve.
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#1 Accept that you must let go of the past.
• Change begins with an ending.• Change is good.• Change is inevitable - progress is not.• Take control of your life.• Be open to change.
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Secret
1. Allow yourself to feel empowered. 2. Be fully present. 3. Examine all your duties and see what is not
mandatory. 4. Take breaks - regularly. 5. Close the door and go home. 6. Allow time and space to express your feelings. 7. Maintain open communication. 8. Stay motivated. 9. Remember that work is often cyclical.10. Choose to maintain a positive attitude regardless
of the situation.
10 Ways to not only Cope with change, but Thrive in it.
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• Consider your current and all previous work situations and activities as a “test drive.”
• Transform your current work situation by assimilating your “common threads” into your professional life.
• Remember, as you and your work evolve, allow yourself to make changes.
#2 Take a closer look at your previous endeavors.
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Secret
• If I could do (blank) really well, I could make all the money I wanted.
• If I could be outstanding at one part of my work, what would it be?
• What do I have an incredible desire to learn more about?
• What skill gives me the greatest feeling of importance?
• What is my personal advantage?
#3 Get to know yourself really well.
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Secret
Lunch Break
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“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.”
John Dewey
• Identify your needs, wants and desires.• Identify your personality traits.• Identify your aptitudes, adaptive and transferable skills and special gifts.
• Identify your most important values.• Identify your most empowering beliefs.• Pass the “Ultimate Life Interview.”• By doing what comes naturally to you, work is no longer a task.
Personal Advantage Assessment
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• Align your head with your heart.• Imagine that you have been given a
“Magic Wand.”• Turn your dreams into results.
#4 Create a destination with soul.
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Secret
• Define your outcomes.• Define your purpose.• Determine your resources.• Create an action plan.• Resolve.• Take action - today and everyday!
How many people really know what they want, and have a clear plan on how to achieve it?
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Stretch Break
“By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly,
building your life;you are carvingyour destiny.”
Ruth Barrick Golden
“”
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• Overcome your fears.• Open the doors to your future.• Embrace the magic.• Create and maintain balance in your life.• Practice extraordinary self-care &
integrity.• Practice humor in the workplace.
#5 Enjoy the journey.
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Secret
• Reduce stress & frustration.• Practice living health.• Practice focus management.• Practice transformational
communication.• Learn to release “Mental Blocks.”
#5 Enjoy the journey.
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Secret
BlameAnxiety
DepressionConfusion
Indifference Judgment
“Mental Blocks”
ProcrastinationIntolerance
PerfectionResentment
Self-PityGuilt
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Understand that it’s now up to YOU!• Possess a positive attitude - ALWAYS!• Take responsibility.• Be flexible and learn to adapt.• Cultivate your skills.• Forgive yourself.• Rise above the pack.• Find a team that you want to play on.• Hire a coach.
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The Final Question
• In what direction are you presently heading?
• ONE YEAR from now, you’ll surely arrive. So, the better question is
“Where And In What Condition?”
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Take theTake the
““Work Yourself Work Yourself HappyHappy””
Challenge!Challenge!
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Thank You!Thank You!Contact Information:
Terri LevineTerrilevine.com
Author of
"Work Yourself Happy”
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