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Don’t Settle:Create the Job of your Dreams

Is this really a Revolution?

Race to the Bottom or Top?

Pick Yourself?

Totally Unprepared?

Definition of a Dream JobYou pinch yourself:

“I can’t believe I’m getting paid to do this”

When have YOU pinched yourself at work?

How?

Now, you can do anything you want to.

The Typical Strategy

That dream job looks

soooo good

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

MOST PEOPLE DON’T GET THEIR

DREAM JOB.

Quarter-life Crisis

Mid-life CrisisHow bad do you want change?How radical of a change?How ready for action?

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THREE STORIES(THAT PROVE THIS WORKS)

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“I knew if I loved what I was doing I would be awesome at it.”

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Why don’t we pick ourselves?

Three Reasons to Pick Yourself.

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. Guess what they planned for you? Not much.”-Jim Rohn

#1: Nobody cares about you like you.

#2: You’ll be more successful.

“The dirty little secret is that people who are intrinsically motivated… almost always outperform their extrinsically motivated peers.”-Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind

#3: You won’t regret it.

YOU ONLY REGRET THE THINGS YOU

DIDN’T DO.

1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2. I wish I didn't work so hard.

3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

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PURPOSE The difference I want to make…

POTENTIAL I’m good at…

PASSIONS I love…

Happiness FAIL

Meaning FAIL

Ability FAIL

Your Perfect Job is a Perfect Fit

EPIC FAIL

EPIC FAILEPIC FAIL

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PURPOSE

POTENTIALPASSIONS

BELIEFS

VALUES CAUSES

ATTRACTIONS

SERVICE

TALENTS

ENVIRONMENT SKILLS

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What is most important to me in life?

What are my life’s truths?

What bigger difference do I want to be a part of?

What needs of others do I love to serve?

What do I love?

What type of place and role do I relish?

What am I great at?

What do I know? What can I do?

The Perfect Job Strategists

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“You can have everything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want”

– Zig Ziglar

“Charlie Hoehn first reached out to me in 2008. Almost three years later, he is still working with me.”

-Tim Ferris

“After visiting your site countless times since May ’07, I’ve come up with a few suggestions that could improve your readers’ experience. Here are the two things I think you need…” What it would take:

How I could help:

“In exchange for these things, I hope that you’d consider taking me on as an intern.”

What the benefits are to you:

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2What it would take:

How I could help:

What the benefits are to you:

My Proposals

Why does this work?

Credibility

Planning Your Proposals

New RoleVentures

Companies

Org’s

Think of multiple waysYou will ACTUALLY help them

Creatively propose VALUE

State your INTENTIONS

Research, Research, Research

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Checklist: Your Proposal…Is all about THEM (not you)

Shows off your POWER SOURCEIs truly VALUABLE

Is easy to say YES to Is a PLEASURE for you to do

Connects to a way to make MONEY

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The Top 3 Reasons

#1: Persistence = Success

Who said this…

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“There's a way to do it better - find it.”

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show

how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who

don't want it badly enough.”

Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

#2: Competition is NOT fierce.

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind”

#3: You’ll find your Tribe.

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REVIEW: The Perfect Job Strategy

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My Offer to YouI will moderate a private group on LinkedIN

The Perfect Job StrategistsI will select up to 3 people to actively assist

I will help anyone who really needs it

Two Paths from Here

1. Don’t commit to the Perfect Job Strategy – please tell me why! [email protected]

2. Commit and take action!

mailto:[email protected]

My promise to myself…

Make a Personal Pact

The Pact: It’s all up to YOU

• I will be honest with myself• I will do some serious introspection• I will find a person or group to help me• I will apply to be a Perfect Job protégé• I won’t listen to people who don’t believe• I will think BIG• I will take steps every day• I refuse to settle • I won’t make a back up plan • I will have faith

ACTIONS: WHAT WILL YOU DO BY WHEN?COMMIT TO DATES!!!

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