Kickstart: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

People spend more time planning a VACATION than a CAREER.

Circumstances and other people DICTATE our career choices.

DISLIKE/HATE LIKE/LOVE

70% 30%

How employees feel about their work

What problems do I ENJOY solving?

How do I become MORE EXPERT at solving these problems?

BE YOURSELF.

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I wish I had lived a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

-- Bonnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

-- e.e. cummings, poet

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A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.

-- Banksy, British graffiti artist and political activist

“Be YOURSELF.

Then you’ll be UNIQUE and

EXCITING and people will beat

a path to your door.”

ROBERT BALLARD*

BE EMPATHIC.

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Empathy is the critical 21st-century skill.

-- Meg Bear, Group Vice President, Oracle Corporation

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I simply make a FRIEND of my customer and I give them WHAT THEY WANT.

-- Tom Girard, Guinness Book of World Records

People who study emotional intelligence and leadership

say that EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE accounts for…

85-90%

of SUCCESS at work.

“Look BEYOND yourself and

see WHERE there might be a real need.

Don’t be put off by dealing with people

from a different world, ESPECIALLY prisoners

and the homeless.”

GLORIA KILLIAN

BE A LEARNER.

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I’m still learning.

-- Michelangelo, at the age of 87

VICTORIA HALE

“Learn from OTHERS when

they teach you something,

and REALLY take it in.”

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BE PERSISTENT.

Bill Gates’s first company, “Traf-O-Data,” was a FAILURE.

Comedian Jim Carrey was HOMELESS when he was 15-years-old.

Competitive surfer Bethany Hamilton had her ARM BITTEN OFF by a shark.

Eminem grew up in a trailer park with a DRUG-ADDICTED MOTHER.

30 publishers REJECTED Stephen King’s first novel “Carrie”.

“Every time I suffer a SETBACK, I find myself

thinking instinctively, ‘How can I CAPITALIZE

on this?’”

TOM MONAGHAN*

BE A RISK-TAKER.

Highly successful people continually TAKE RISKS and are continually FAILING.

But they succeed MORE THAN the rest of us.

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“FEAR OF FAILURE must NEVER be a

reason not to try something.”

FRED SMITH

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, politician, activist and diplomat