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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