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Opportunitynowhere

Partnering with Serendipity for a satisfying career experience

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The myth of a linear,

power-based career path

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Do career plans ever unfold just the way we imagine?

Sure. But don’t count on it.

“At first glance his career path appeared to be linear.” Nate Skinner

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What they don’t tell you:

reality is a bit more like this…

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What unexpected twists and turns have you found in your career? What do they teach you about success?

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It can take more than affirmations to get

you through the night

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Affirmations are to remind you of things you believe are true but sometimes forget.

What affirmations remind you of who you are, what you aspire to and how to stay aligned with your purpose?

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There’s value, but not completeness

in most advice books

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(I chose these covers at random.) What hooks do you have that manipulative success merchant can exploit?

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That’s why seeing the true…

OPPORTUNITY NOW HERE

In OPPORTUNITYNOWHERE

Is so important

OPPORTUNITYOUTTHERE?

Opportunities are closer

than they appear

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What blocks and problems have you transformed into opportunities?

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And to see through opportunity’s disguises

• Barbara turned hospice work that was “killing her” into a ministry of service that nourishes her – and claimed her particular magnificence in both her career paths

• Ann got her dream job by a series of twists and turns that defied and exceeded anything she could plan – and it started with having her plans fall apart

• Wendy was frustrated by the lack of coordination among doctors at her hospital. She recommended creating a position of Medical Staff Coordinator. They did and hired her.

• When I worked at a seminar company I was frustrated by the lack of good books to offer attendees. I wrote PowerPhrases and it took off.

• Pam Young turned her sloppy habits into inspiration for a powerful organizational system and best-selling book

• Angela’s editing for me spring-boarded into editing and proof-reading jobs.

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I’m here now because…

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One-sidedness

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1. “Begin with the end in mind”

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Find guiding images to aspire toward

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2. Embrace your current reality

Be brutally totally honest. (After all, what do you really have to hide?)

• In what ways are you, your career and life like your vision?

• Where are there gaps?

• What obstacles stand between you and living your vision?

• What resources do you have that will help you move yourself and others toward that vision?

• What seeming limitations do you have that could be turned into resources?

“The longer the fire burns, the better we get to know it.” Rich Harvey

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3. Set closer-in goals

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Covey had his priorities right

Urgent and important

Important and not urgent

What do you need to

prioritize from this

category?

Urgent and not important

Not urgent and not

important

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4. Iterate your way in

the direction of your goals

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Create experiments, not straight-jackets

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Take it as it comes:

5 Coaching Questions

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Dare to Think Small and

Dare to Be Ordinary Be willing to make small, simple changes.

It can take a lot of ordinary to get to great.

Learning curves are natural and with any

luck you always will have them.

Fail forward. It teaches you a lot.

Enjoy the process.

Resist goals that require you to be

someone you’re not

Make sure your aspirations are character,

or soul-based, not ego-based.

Measure your success by your own

criteria. The world has some pretty

unbalanced definitions.

Garner wisdom from everything that

happens

• How am I making this harder than it has to be?

• I’m a work in progress.

• I’m learning.

• That was a successful experiment. I learned a lot of things I wont do again.

• How can I make this fun again?

• That’s not who I am.

• Am I called to do this, or am I buying into ego promptings?

• How do I define success?

• What can I say, think or do that will make me happy that things happened exactly this way?

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5. Everything tells you something.

18 So get the message and continue the cycles

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Tools: Speaking Strong:

“The Cat is Coming”

• Defend your joy

• Defend your style

• Practice your communication on the small things so you’re ready for the big things.

• Risk rejection, angering, offending, etc. when it matters.

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Where could your communication skills use some improvement?

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Find out what commitments you can

honor on a sustained basis

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How do you capture fleeting ideas that could be opportunitiesnowhere?

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2-Second Lean

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How do you weave improvement, efficiency and waste elimination into your schedule?

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Summary tips

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Next Week

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