Moving on from a Career Mis-Step, Side-Step or Step-Backwards

Whatever you call it, we all have career missteps. Situations where we simply try to move forward but then move to the side or even take a step back away from our goal. This week we’re sharing amazing tips to dust yourself off and get right back in the saddle again.

Remember that the future holds opportunities that will be amazing and awesome. Continue to believe in yourself and your dream. Here are a few of our best tips to keep you motivated along the way:

1. Think about what or who motivates or inspires you – then spend more time doing that thing or being with that person/people at least once a month.

2. YOU have the power to make changes and take risks…one step at a time!

3. A great way to get over your fear of networking is by taking baby steps. Even if you are not comfortable initiating conversations – you can practice your “connection” skills to let yourself engage in talking with people who try to strike up a conversation with you.

4. Measure success by hours. We often try to meet work deadlines or personal goals, but some days these things just don’t go as we planned. When you need a boost - pick ONE hour in the day that celebrates what went well and reflect on what you did that was awesome.

5. Make today the day you restart your life and career in a big way. Little shifts can make big shifts and big shifts create real change.

6. Tell yourself that failure is just part of the process. Life is about progress, not about perfection.

7. What words would you use to describe yourself? #Positivity #self

This week remind yourself you are on a unique journey and that it’s not about reaching one single destination. -- “Life is a journey, not a destination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning From the Mistakes and Appreciating Things No Always Going As Planned

This week we’re tackling mistakes and how we can learn from them and one day even see them in a new light. Truth is, no matter how much we plan for it or want it – sometimes everyone loses. The key to dusting yourself off and moving forward is about leaving your “loss” behind and promising yourself that you will never make that mistake again. Then move on and don’t look back.

Some of the smartest people on planet earth not only learned from their mistakes but credit things not going as planned as the reason they discovered something new. Face your biggest fears first. Then move forward knowing that you can conquer anything if you face it head-on.

Here’s to a week full of celebrations about the past and to creating a brighter future.

Leveraging Your Professional Skills to Make a Hugely Successful Career Leap

Successful people don’t wait for the right qualifications to apply for a job. They simply make a huge leap of faith and play the “cards” they were dealt. In the process, successful people learn how to masterfully leverage their skills and experience from another time in their life or career. Showing us all that anyone can use past experience to help create new success.

This week join us as we take a look at simple ways to re-focus, re-set, and re-charge. We challenge you to spend the next 7 days switching your focus from the experience you lack to the skills you possess and want to project to others moving forward.

Tip 1- Focus on what you can learn from every aspect of each project. The more you focus on learning, the more exponential growth you’ll have in your career.

Tip 2 - Make a list of your 20 greatest professional skills. You may need to highlight your skills at some point and having this list available is helpful.

Tip 3 - Highlight your career-related skills to yourself and others. Ensure that you include these skills in your resumes, interviews, and networking opportunities.

Experience is important, but it’s your skills that make you attractive to companies and organizations. They want to know what you bring to the table and how you can help them. Sometimes we must face fear or step outside our comfort zone to get where we want to be. But, it’s worth it!

Unconventional Wisdom That I Learned from Others

Over the years, I have been a quick study of people. I have found that we are all experts at some aspect of human nature. Some are experts at the art of observation and do amazing things on social and in IRL that position them as much bigger players in a much bigger pond than they actually are.

After years of experience and delivering results, in time, your track record will speak for itself.

In the meantime, here are three of some of my personal unconventional wisdom that I have learned from working with an amazingly diverse and large group of people from all walks of life.

The Nickname

Almost every celebrity, successful influential, and powerful person has aliases only known by their industry and/or their “team.” You may know actors Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins; however, in the halls of SNL and their personal tight inner circles, everyone calls them Bobby D and Tony, respectively.

The Leverage

Know the preferred names of the movers and shakers in your life. I don’t suggest that you use it at a first meeting or right away. I suggest this. When you meet someone in the same industry who actually knows this person, use the opportunity to inquire how “fill-in-the-nickname-here” is doing using their preferred moniker and not the name known by the best of the world.

The Great Question for The Famous, The Infamous, and High Network Individuals

I have learned so much about how to talk to and engage a wide range of people in a diverse range of conversations. Working with some of the world’s biggest celebrities and brands, I’ve also mastered the art of discretion. So, I will pass along a great question YOU can ask them at a planned or chance meeting.

Start the conversation with a brief compliment followed by a concise sentence about yourself. Then ask, “what interesting things occupy your time these days.” Remember “how’s work and what do you do for a living” do not really apply to most extremely wealthy individuals in the that same way they may apply to others.

Follow us all week on social for bold personal branding advice to inspire and expand your professional and personal goals and digital (social) network to the next level. “Act as if” for as long as you need to and never forget to pay attention to all “expert advice” that people reveal in what they think, act, do or believe around you. Live. Love. Do. ™ and try your best!