Leadership and Productivity with a Healthy Life
Balance
Make It Fun = Get More Done!
Whether your company is in need of better productivity from your workforce, or
you want to build a better network, are starting over, are an empty nester
re-entering the workforce, have been laid-off, or are going through a divorce
there is information here to help you! Learn to take your interests and
channel them into productive goals on a fast track. Reach out of your comfort
zone to achieve proven and practical strategies for success. We invite you to
share your insight, take advantage of the resources here, challenge yourself,
and continue to develop and grow.
Balance
Make It Fun = Get More Done!
Whether your company is in need of better productivity from your workforce, or
you want to build a better network, are starting over, are an empty nester
re-entering the workforce, have been laid-off, or are going through a divorce
there is information here to help you! Learn to take your interests and
channel them into productive goals on a fast track. Reach out of your comfort
zone to achieve proven and practical strategies for success. We invite you to
share your insight, take advantage of the resources here, challenge yourself,
and continue to develop and grow.
Tip Sheets
The following downloads are FREE worksheets that will help you plan a
new start for your life. It is hard to take a new course if you don't have your
"map" to success. It is a lot easier once you have the direction you need.
You can do this yourself. Now is the time to get started! A more extensive
list of articles may be found on the Articles and Tip Sheets page.
Where to Begin
Begin With Your "Success Sketch" and Hang it Where You Will See It
Everyday
Career Transition
Best Careers of 2010 and How to Transfer to Them
I'm Not Sure What I Want to Be When I Grow Up - Tools to Help
Transferable Skills - Three Easy Steps to Changing Fields
Executive Leadership - Productivity - Corporate Culture
12 Steps to Lead A Killer Productive Meeting
Change - Here's How!
SMART Goals - Make a Five and Ten Year Career Plan
Transform Corporate Culture for an Increased Bottom Line
What Do Employees and Customers Want? Zappos and Lemonade
Inspiration - Overcoming Adversity
Are You Leading Your Life or an Actor in Your Own Drama?
Feel the Fear - How to Build Self-Confidence
The Interview
10 Interview Questions for You to Ask That Scream, "I Get the Big Picture!"
Job Search
Does Your Resume Look Weathered?
Market Yourself
The Niche Test!
Networking
How to Make a First Impression that Rocks!
Find a complete list of worksheets by clicking on "Articles and Tip Sheets."
The following downloads are FREE worksheets that will help you plan a
new start for your life. It is hard to take a new course if you don't have your
"map" to success. It is a lot easier once you have the direction you need.
You can do this yourself. Now is the time to get started! A more extensive
list of articles may be found on the Articles and Tip Sheets page.
Where to Begin
Begin With Your "Success Sketch" and Hang it Where You Will See It
Everyday
Career Transition
Best Careers of 2010 and How to Transfer to Them
I'm Not Sure What I Want to Be When I Grow Up - Tools to Help
Transferable Skills - Three Easy Steps to Changing Fields
Executive Leadership - Productivity - Corporate Culture
12 Steps to Lead A Killer Productive Meeting
Change - Here's How!
SMART Goals - Make a Five and Ten Year Career Plan
Transform Corporate Culture for an Increased Bottom Line
What Do Employees and Customers Want? Zappos and Lemonade
Inspiration - Overcoming Adversity
Are You Leading Your Life or an Actor in Your Own Drama?
Feel the Fear - How to Build Self-Confidence
The Interview
10 Interview Questions for You to Ask That Scream, "I Get the Big Picture!"
Job Search
Does Your Resume Look Weathered?
Market Yourself
The Niche Test!
Networking
How to Make a First Impression that Rocks!
Find a complete list of worksheets by clicking on "Articles and Tip Sheets."
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Where Do I Start?
Ok, so you want to make some changes in your life but those changes scare
you a little, invigorate you a lot and the ambivalence can sometimes paralyze
you. You just don’t know if you can make it work but you know you have the
energy to make a difference. What you don’t realize is that you have already
been through this before and succeeded.
See if the following scenario is familiar.
Meredith and Jessica are third graders who are standing in line at the bus
stop.
Michael shows up and cuts in front of them just before the bus opens its
doors. He scales the steps two at a time and beats them to the last seat on
the bus where the girls have sat every day since school began. Michael
throws his elbows up over the seat in front of him, leaning forward with a
Cheshire cat grin. “Got your seat!”
Meredith stands up straight like she’d swallowed a stick. “Bus driver! Michael
Miller just stole our seat.” She stomps her feet to the back of the bus,
pointing at Michael. “He cut in front of us in line and should go to the
principal’s office.”
Jessica watched the bus driver sip his coffee from one of those coffee shops
that charges more for coffee than her lunch costs. She slides into the seat in
front of Michael. “Meredith, let’s just sit here today.”
“No way! That is our seat.”
More children file onto the bus and bus starts to pull away from the curb.
Meredith is jostled down in the seat next to Jessica and lets out a sigh that
would have put the big bad wolf to shame. “I hate that Michael Miller and I
am going to tell his homeroom teacher what he did as soon as we get to
school.”
He pokes his face between them and bellows, “I’m so scaaaaaaared.”
Meredith starts twisting the key tags on her backpack until one breaks off.
Jessica opens her backpack and starts flipping through her flash cards.
There is a spelling test first period and she kept getting “consume” wrong last
night when she was practicing.
Who do you want to be?
Meredith is not able to accept the situation – she is not able to find peace.
Michael is controlling the situation – playing his own game. The bus driver
is disinterested in the situation – he quit the game early. And Jessica
chooses not to let having to change seats get in the way of what she needs
to do – study for the test. She is the only person peaceful enough to move
forward.
Jessica realizes that the energy spent on fighting for a certain seat on the
bus does not have anything to do with where she ultimately wants to be.
She wants to get an “A” on the spelling test. Meredith probably wants that
too. But fighting with Michael is easier and probably fulfills an emotional
need that she has either to control or to be heard. Either way, fulfilling the
emotional need is not going to get her an “A” on the spelling test.
It is very easy to get distracted from your goals with emotions that really do
not have anything to do with where you want to be. People do this because it
is easier than focusing on something that leaves you more uneasy – your
own accomplishments. You can fail at reaching goals. You can’t fail at
arguing. Anger is easier.
Know the difference between your emotions and your goals. Get your own
negative emotions out of the way so that you can get on with success.
Mary Lee Gannon is a leadership and productivity expert who went from
being a stay-at-home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then
on to become a newspaper reporter, trade association executive director,
public relations consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary
Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.
startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
Ok, so you want to make some changes in your life but those changes scare
you a little, invigorate you a lot and the ambivalence can sometimes paralyze
you. You just don’t know if you can make it work but you know you have the
energy to make a difference. What you don’t realize is that you have already
been through this before and succeeded.
See if the following scenario is familiar.
Meredith and Jessica are third graders who are standing in line at the bus
stop.
Michael shows up and cuts in front of them just before the bus opens its
doors. He scales the steps two at a time and beats them to the last seat on
the bus where the girls have sat every day since school began. Michael
throws his elbows up over the seat in front of him, leaning forward with a
Cheshire cat grin. “Got your seat!”
Meredith stands up straight like she’d swallowed a stick. “Bus driver! Michael
Miller just stole our seat.” She stomps her feet to the back of the bus,
pointing at Michael. “He cut in front of us in line and should go to the
principal’s office.”
Jessica watched the bus driver sip his coffee from one of those coffee shops
that charges more for coffee than her lunch costs. She slides into the seat in
front of Michael. “Meredith, let’s just sit here today.”
“No way! That is our seat.”
More children file onto the bus and bus starts to pull away from the curb.
Meredith is jostled down in the seat next to Jessica and lets out a sigh that
would have put the big bad wolf to shame. “I hate that Michael Miller and I
am going to tell his homeroom teacher what he did as soon as we get to
school.”
He pokes his face between them and bellows, “I’m so scaaaaaaared.”
Meredith starts twisting the key tags on her backpack until one breaks off.
Jessica opens her backpack and starts flipping through her flash cards.
There is a spelling test first period and she kept getting “consume” wrong last
night when she was practicing.
Who do you want to be?
Meredith is not able to accept the situation – she is not able to find peace.
Michael is controlling the situation – playing his own game. The bus driver
is disinterested in the situation – he quit the game early. And Jessica
chooses not to let having to change seats get in the way of what she needs
to do – study for the test. She is the only person peaceful enough to move
forward.
Jessica realizes that the energy spent on fighting for a certain seat on the
bus does not have anything to do with where she ultimately wants to be.
She wants to get an “A” on the spelling test. Meredith probably wants that
too. But fighting with Michael is easier and probably fulfills an emotional
need that she has either to control or to be heard. Either way, fulfilling the
emotional need is not going to get her an “A” on the spelling test.
It is very easy to get distracted from your goals with emotions that really do
not have anything to do with where you want to be. People do this because it
is easier than focusing on something that leaves you more uneasy – your
own accomplishments. You can fail at reaching goals. You can’t fail at
arguing. Anger is easier.
Know the difference between your emotions and your goals. Get your own
negative emotions out of the way so that you can get on with success.
Mary Lee Gannon is a leadership and productivity expert who went from
being a stay-at-home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then
on to become a newspaper reporter, trade association executive director,
public relations consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary
Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.
startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source on
career information:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates
www.salary.com and Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine.
com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
10. U.S. Government's Free
online courses, webinars
and podcasts for workforce
development:
www.onetacademy.com.
11. Occupational Outlook
Handbok 2008-09 by Bureau
of Labor and Statistics:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home
.htm
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source on
career information:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates
www.salary.com and Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine.
com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
10. U.S. Government's Free
online courses, webinars
and podcasts for workforce
development:
www.onetacademy.com.
11. Occupational Outlook
Handbok 2008-09 by Bureau
of Labor and Statistics:
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home
.htm
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