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Bye, Bye Reasons…Hello Results!

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale once said,  “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” Now think about the 3 most important goals you want to accomplish this week.  Take about 2 minutes and write them down now.  Next, write down your

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Trust Yourself to Succeed

Career Success

Maxwell Maltz was quoted as saying, “You are generally underestimating your own abilities and overestimating and exaggerating the nature of the difficulty before you.”   If you don’t trust in your ability to succeed, no one else will either. You project what is going on

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Bounce Back from Job Search Rejection

Favorite colors and job seekers

Like it or not, getting rejected time and again is just part of the game we call the job search process. It does not mean anything, so don’t take it personally. People are not rejecting you per se; they are just accepting someone else.  Think

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Stay Connected

Lost Connections

Just because you’re in transition, does NOT mean that you warp into some theoretical dreamland and leave humanity.  Au contraire, career transition is the best time to both connect and reconnect with people you know or want to know better.  Specifically, I would recommend doing

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Find a Mentor to Help You Succeed

Career Mentor

I would highly recommend for anyone who wants to do — what you always wanted to do — to find a mentor to help you produce results, because you can’t succeed alone. A mentor will see things that you can’t see for yourself; they’ve been

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Reflect on Your Daily Wins

jobseeker thinking

At the end of each day, take time to reflect on your wins for that day.  No matter you did or did not accomplish, take time to acknowledge yourself for being someone who is intent on having the best transition possible.     Action Steps: Write

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Compliment Yourself Throughout Your Transition

Jobseeker in Mirror

Give yourself a minimum of two compliments per day throughout your transition, especially when you push yourself to do things in your best interest that you just didn’t feel like doing. For example, if you applied to one more job than you felt like; compliment

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Stick to Your Daily Job Search Plan

Jobseeker in PJs

Make sure that you are setting specific times to work on your strategic job objectives; otherwise, “things come up” and it doesn’t get done. When you are out of a job, other people may think that you’re sitting around in your pj’s doing nothing —

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Start Each Day Strategically

Job seeker getting up

When you haven’t planned what to do next; it’s not easy to make giant leaps in your job search progress. Therefore, it is imperative that you start each day by mapping out your strategic objectives for the day (along with your general to-do list). Think

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Choose to Have the Best Transition

Transition Frustration

For many people, being in transition is a scary, challenging, and unpredictable time.  Luckily, you are not most people, and you can choose how to perceive your career transition.  If you want it to be a time of agony and frustration, you will get what

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