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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

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Steve Jobs – 3 Stories

3:09 – 8:40

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Abby

• 36 Years Old• Degrees in English and

Psychology from a top college

• Work History:• Rental Cars• Farm Equipment Sales• Marketing, Event Planning

and Graphic Design (entrepreneur)

• What does she want to be when she grows up?

“It's never too late to be what you might have been.”

- George Elliot

“If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.”

- A. Armstrong

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•It is YOUR responsibility to put yourself in the right place… companies used to take responsibility for this in return for your life long loyalty and as compensation for doing a job that was not fulfilling.

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Is This Your Plan?

Childhood University Work Retirement

Start Living DieStop Living

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A Better Plan

Work

Play

Start Living Die

Childhood University

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The Best Plan!

There should be no Difference between WHO you are and

WHAT you do!

Start Living Die

Childhood University

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(*bezea pufoasa)

The link between money and happiness

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Define: Career Development

1.Determine Where You Are2.Decide Where You Want To

Be3.Make the Changes

Necessary To Get There

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First,Determine Where You Are

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It does not matter how good you are if you are not in the right

place!

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Know Yourself:

• The Types of work you like to do

• The activities that give you the most satisfaction

• The environments in which you prefer to work

• The sorts of people you like to work with

• The abilities you possess that you’d like to develop

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Ask 5 or 6 friends these questions:

(I hope you have that many friends!)

• What four words best describe me?

• If your best friend asked you to tell her more about me, what would you say?

• What appears to motivate me?

• What would be the ideal job for me?

• What seems to make me most fulfilled and excited?

• What work should I stay away from, and why?

• What about myself do I have trouble seeing?

• What aspects of myself do I need to change to be more successful?

• What aspects of myself should I not change?

Collect the responses and

look for common themes.

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“Most people think they know what they are good at. They

are usually wrong. More often, people know what they are not good at – and even then, more people are wrong than right.” –

Peter Drucker

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344 Questions Exercise 1 - Yellow

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Second,Decide Where You

Want To Be

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“Managing Oneself” by Peter Drucker

Five key questions:

1. What are my strengths?

2. How do I work?

3. What are my values?

4. Where do I belong?

5. What can I contribute?

“Do not try to change yourself – you are unlikely to succeed. Work to

improve the way you perform.”

- Drucker

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344 Questions Exercise 2 - Purple

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You Are Not Special

5:28–7:05 / 8:42-9:00 / 11:32-end

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Third,Make The Changes Necessary To Get

There

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• You Need to Prepare for you career just like you would to master an instrument or to prepare for your final university exams.

• Make a plan: Example - For every hour you spend on the internet, spend 10 minutes on career planning. Keep track of the hours and once a week or once a month use the accumulated career planning time.

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How Do You Get There?

•Aggressively look for opportunities

•Be prepared

•Be ‘hungry’

•Surround yourself with ‘great’ people

•Work , Work, Work!

•Get education

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344 Questions Exercise 3 - Red

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What About Abby?

• Dream Job:• Antiques Appraiser

• Plan:• Start selling farm

equipment again (financing)

• Get a Masters in Family Counseling

• Find an Antiques Appraiser as a mentor

• In 10 years start new career

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My Story

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Recommended Resources

• “The Black Swan” - Nassim Taleb

• “Fooled By Randomness” – Nassim Taleb

• “Outliers: The Story of Success” – Malcom Gladwell

• “The Tipping Point” – Malcom Gladwell

• “Freakonomics” - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

• “SuperFreakonomics” - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

• “What Color is Your Parachute” – Dick Bolles

• “When Genius Failed” - Roger Lowenstein

• “344 Questions?”– Stefan G. Bucher

• Video about doing what you are passionate about – Gary Vaynerchuck

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