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FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates 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
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates 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
Articles
Begin With Your Success Sketch and Hang it Where
You Will See It Everyday
Human nature tells you to plan from the beginning. I say start with the end in
mind, draw what that will look like on paper and post your “Success Sketch”
where you can see it every day. Stick people are acceptable! You won’t
forget where you are headed if you have to look t it everyday. When you get
mired down in the trivial nature of everyday routines, this will remind you that
you have a bigger picture in mind.
If you are changing jobs, don’t blindly answer classified ads and send out
resumes. Begin by making sure you want to stay in the same profession.
Do you want to live in the city or suburbs, work with a lot of people or in a
small office, manage multiple projects and people or work on task specific
projects. Sketch yourself in your new role, smiling, being happy in your new
office, house or with customers.
If you are looking for a new home, don’t start by determining the price you
can afford and scanning the newspaper for that price range. Start with
defining 1) proximity to work, 2) school district, 3) proximity to shopping, 4)
number of bedrooms, 5) family room on first floor, etc. Draw that house on a
diagram with your office and schools and post it where you will see it every
day.
I have an index card with my “Success Sketch” on an index card posted
above my desk in my bedroom. My first book is being released in November
of 2009. I know I wouldn’t be a published author today if I hadn’t envisioned
myself being one.
1. Where do you want to live? Current neighborhood? In the city? In the
country? At the beach?
2. Where do you want to work? Home? Small office? Large
Corporations? Close to home? Doesn’t matter? Don’t want to work?
3. Do you like to plan things systematically or are you creative and free
flowing?
4. Do you want to take direction or give direction?
5. Do you value flexibility to your schedule?
6. Do you like to work on one task at a time or do you prefer multitasking?
7. Do you like to travel during a typical day or prefer to stay at home or in
the office? A mix?
8. Do you want to work/live with a lot of people around you or a few?
9. What qualities do you see in successful people? Are you cultivating
those?
10. Start to sketch yourself living the answers to these questions and
hang your ‘Success Sketch” where you will see it at the start of every
day.
11. Mark your calendar so that every two months you monitor your
progress. Change, add to or edit your sketch if necessary.
Grab a piece of paper or an index card right now, draw your “Success
Sketch” and place where you will see it everyday! If you do this, you WILL find
something different than you are experiencing right now. Think about the
things that are important to you. Family time? Close proximity to work?
Work that you love? Flexibility? Predictability? Don’t just look to find “a job.”
Craft your own destiny based on where you ultimately want to be. Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “Does Your Resume Look Weathered?” and “10
Interview Questions That Scream, "I Get the Big Picture!" go to: www.
startingovernow.com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice 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.
You Will See It Everyday
Human nature tells you to plan from the beginning. I say start with the end in
mind, draw what that will look like on paper and post your “Success Sketch”
where you can see it every day. Stick people are acceptable! You won’t
forget where you are headed if you have to look t it everyday. When you get
mired down in the trivial nature of everyday routines, this will remind you that
you have a bigger picture in mind.
If you are changing jobs, don’t blindly answer classified ads and send out
resumes. Begin by making sure you want to stay in the same profession.
Do you want to live in the city or suburbs, work with a lot of people or in a
small office, manage multiple projects and people or work on task specific
projects. Sketch yourself in your new role, smiling, being happy in your new
office, house or with customers.
If you are looking for a new home, don’t start by determining the price you
can afford and scanning the newspaper for that price range. Start with
defining 1) proximity to work, 2) school district, 3) proximity to shopping, 4)
number of bedrooms, 5) family room on first floor, etc. Draw that house on a
diagram with your office and schools and post it where you will see it every
day.
I have an index card with my “Success Sketch” on an index card posted
above my desk in my bedroom. My first book is being released in November
of 2009. I know I wouldn’t be a published author today if I hadn’t envisioned
myself being one.
1. Where do you want to live? Current neighborhood? In the city? In the
country? At the beach?
2. Where do you want to work? Home? Small office? Large
Corporations? Close to home? Doesn’t matter? Don’t want to work?
3. Do you like to plan things systematically or are you creative and free
flowing?
4. Do you want to take direction or give direction?
5. Do you value flexibility to your schedule?
6. Do you like to work on one task at a time or do you prefer multitasking?
7. Do you like to travel during a typical day or prefer to stay at home or in
the office? A mix?
8. Do you want to work/live with a lot of people around you or a few?
9. What qualities do you see in successful people? Are you cultivating
those?
10. Start to sketch yourself living the answers to these questions and
hang your ‘Success Sketch” where you will see it at the start of every
day.
11. Mark your calendar so that every two months you monitor your
progress. Change, add to or edit your sketch if necessary.
Grab a piece of paper or an index card right now, draw your “Success
Sketch” and place where you will see it everyday! If you do this, you WILL find
something different than you are experiencing right now. Think about the
things that are important to you. Family time? Close proximity to work?
Work that you love? Flexibility? Predictability? Don’t just look to find “a job.”
Craft your own destiny based on where you ultimately want to be. Start now!
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “Does Your Resume Look Weathered?” and “10
Interview Questions That Scream, "I Get the Big Picture!" go to: www.
startingovernow.com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice 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.
StartingOverNow.com
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| Mary Lee Gannon is interviewed on Mind Your BIZness |
FREE e-book.
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
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* Starting over in
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To chart your road
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"Worksheets and
Articles."
FREE resources on
this site are:
* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
Mary Lee Gannon's
Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
Look for it in stores or
order it from
Amazon.com.
Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
Look for it in stores or
order it from
Amazon.com.
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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.
For the FREE StartingOverNow E-newsletter, or to contact Mary Lee simply send
an email to: info@startingovernow.com. Share your story.
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.
For the FREE StartingOverNow E-newsletter, or to contact Mary Lee simply send
an email to: info@startingovernow.com. Share your story.