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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
This site is here to help you make a career change or
go back to work while keeping a healthy life balance of
priorities, family and relationships.
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Articles
SMART Goals - Make a Five and Ten Year Career Plan
It is important to write down your goals and check them often. This gives you
the opportunity to remember them and modify them if need be over time.
The fact is that as you continue to see yourself in your plan, you are more
likely to stay on course to get there.
Writing your goals down on paper solidifies your thinking and sets the
direction for your brain to accomplish them. Start with small goals.
Achieving smaller goals will give you the motivation to tackle more complex
goals.
If setting goals scares you, then don’t. Don’t set goals. Dream! Take a
blanket out to the back yard. Lie down in the grass; stare up at the sky and
dream. Let nothing get in the way. See no barriers. Think of everything you
ever wanted to do and still haven’t done. What feels good? Remember
what you dreamed about as a child. What have you always wanted to do?
Eleven Things to Consider for the 5 and 10-Year Plans:
1. Where are your family members living and how old will they be?
2. Are you in the same job or line of work?
3. Is travel involved?
4. Where will you be living?
5. What will your average day look like?
6. What will your place of residence look like and is it paid off?
7. Is a retirement plan part of the picture?
8 What skills or sport have you not had time to develop that interest you?
9. Is volunteerism a part of the picture?
10. Is a business part of the future?
11. Is career part of the future?
Once you’ve established 5 and 10-year goals you will start to see that short-
range strategies you need to get there. Develop strategies or actions you
will take over the next 60 to 90 days to move you closer to your goal. Don't
start with too many strategies. Begin with a few and add more or modify
them as you complete the tasks
A Good Goal is a SMART Goal:
S – SPECIFIC
M - MEASURABLE
A - ACHIEVABLE (but challenging)
R - RESULTS ORIENTED
T - TIME FRAMED
“I want to make more money (sell more, have more time)" does not cut it as
a short term goal. Consider instead:
I will increase my salary / draw by $XX by June, 200X
I will grow my customer base from X to Y by year end
I will write down three processes per month so I can delegate work to others
I will generate $XX in revenue and $XX in profit in 200X
I will hold a team meeting each month throughout 200X
I will work out for 30 minutes, 4 days per week so I can improve my overall
health
Finally, celebrate your wins along the way! Take the time to reward yourself
for the little accomplishments since these will lead to bigger successes
down the road. Stop and get yourself a gourmet cup of coffee. Make time to
call a friend for lunch. Put the leash on the dog and take an informal tour of
all the summer gardens in your neighborhood.
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 Articles: “Life balance Chart and Goals” and “Be the Standout
Candidate in the New Economy” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a cultural turnaround and leadership expert who went
from being a stay-at-home mother with four children living in an unpalatable
marriage behind the facade of a country club life to the reality of divorce,
homelessness, and welfare. As a national guest speaker she demonstrates
turn-around strategies that transform corporate cultures and took her from an
earning capacity of $27,000 to the president and CEO of a hospital
foundation. Her book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed
Out” is available in bookstores and on Amazon.com.
It is important to write down your goals and check them often. This gives you
the opportunity to remember them and modify them if need be over time.
The fact is that as you continue to see yourself in your plan, you are more
likely to stay on course to get there.
Writing your goals down on paper solidifies your thinking and sets the
direction for your brain to accomplish them. Start with small goals.
Achieving smaller goals will give you the motivation to tackle more complex
goals.
If setting goals scares you, then don’t. Don’t set goals. Dream! Take a
blanket out to the back yard. Lie down in the grass; stare up at the sky and
dream. Let nothing get in the way. See no barriers. Think of everything you
ever wanted to do and still haven’t done. What feels good? Remember
what you dreamed about as a child. What have you always wanted to do?
Eleven Things to Consider for the 5 and 10-Year Plans:
1. Where are your family members living and how old will they be?
2. Are you in the same job or line of work?
3. Is travel involved?
4. Where will you be living?
5. What will your average day look like?
6. What will your place of residence look like and is it paid off?
7. Is a retirement plan part of the picture?
8 What skills or sport have you not had time to develop that interest you?
9. Is volunteerism a part of the picture?
10. Is a business part of the future?
11. Is career part of the future?
Once you’ve established 5 and 10-year goals you will start to see that short-
range strategies you need to get there. Develop strategies or actions you
will take over the next 60 to 90 days to move you closer to your goal. Don't
start with too many strategies. Begin with a few and add more or modify
them as you complete the tasks
A Good Goal is a SMART Goal:
S – SPECIFIC
M - MEASURABLE
A - ACHIEVABLE (but challenging)
R - RESULTS ORIENTED
T - TIME FRAMED
“I want to make more money (sell more, have more time)" does not cut it as
a short term goal. Consider instead:
I will increase my salary / draw by $XX by June, 200X
I will grow my customer base from X to Y by year end
I will write down three processes per month so I can delegate work to others
I will generate $XX in revenue and $XX in profit in 200X
I will hold a team meeting each month throughout 200X
I will work out for 30 minutes, 4 days per week so I can improve my overall
health
Finally, celebrate your wins along the way! Take the time to reward yourself
for the little accomplishments since these will lead to bigger successes
down the road. Stop and get yourself a gourmet cup of coffee. Make time to
call a friend for lunch. Put the leash on the dog and take an informal tour of
all the summer gardens in your neighborhood.
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 Articles: “Life balance Chart and Goals” and “Be the Standout
Candidate in the New Economy” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a cultural turnaround and leadership expert who went
from being a stay-at-home mother with four children living in an unpalatable
marriage behind the facade of a country club life to the reality of divorce,
homelessness, and welfare. As a national guest speaker she demonstrates
turn-around strategies that transform corporate cultures and took her from an
earning capacity of $27,000 to the president and CEO of a hospital
foundation. Her book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When You’ve Bottomed
Out” is available in bookstores and on Amazon.com.
StartingOverNow.com
Articles
| 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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career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
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click here for FREE
"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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