Career Change Success

Here's why I love what I do!   I'm delighted to post this article written by Barbara Safani for AOL profiling two of my clients and their successful career change process.

 

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/06/09/make-career-change/

 

I really HELP people, and that's the best feeling.  I am so grateful for finding my own way in mid-life, and now having the opportunity to empower and inspire others to get there too. 

  

This quote helped to open my eyes:

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way: if you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Capture your own career journey: examine the beliefs and assumptions that are underlying your current career thoughts.  Ask yourself some of the following questions designed to stimulate your thinking and guide you in the process:

• What strengths do I know I have?
• What childhood or teenage experiences might have been responsible for writing the script of my strengths and limitations?
• What fears get in the way when I think of really succeeding at work I love? Where did those beliefs come from?  Do I still need them in any way?  Why?
• How can I believe that I deserve to have work I love?
• How might my parents' own career histories be influencing the places that I am stuck right now?  Whose other "voices" might I be hearing in my heart?
• What are my role models for successful people?
• What impact do I want to have on the world through my work?
• How do I know I am committed to my goals? Are they for me or someone else?
• What's stopping me?

Time to get serious - get unstuck, get clear, get focused and get moving!  What are you waiting for?