Friday, October 10, 2008

"Bricks are there for a reason..."

Wouldn’t you like for somebody to tell you when you are frustrated or upset that every thing is going to be all right no matter what?
Well, I am going to borrow a beautiful phrase by Randy Pausch from his Last Lecture: “the bricks are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something”.
You can pretty much achieve what you want, once you have clarity on your goals, work really hard by focusing your energy and daring to remember and believe in your dreams.
Some people imagine that a career coach has the power to make miracles, but as the miracle power resides in you, I can be only a facilitator of a process that allows you to get to that tangible dream.
First, I believe in challenges, tests, walls and high mountains to be climbed on and lots of wonderful growing opportunities to lead you to achieve your full potential.
Second, if you’ve got the ‘ganas’, the ‘desire’, the ‘passion’ to keep going towards that dream, then it is just a matter of getting started.
Yes, you may have moved to a new Country and struggled a bit in how to relate to your working environment in order to succeed, but if you take action on it and step back to realize that the luggage you have is actually full of tools for you to implement in that new environment and allow yourself space to grow out of your comfort zone, wouldn't you find out, then that the opportunity is a complete win-win for your future?
Yes, you may 'hate' your current job and have a difficult supervisor. Isn't it there an opportunity to learn how to deal with a challenging situation? a space for negotiation and strong networking to overcome that 'job' to find a career that you want to grow into?
Yes, you may be balancing the act between your family and multiple business arrangements. Is there the window opportunity to sit and prioritize? to look at the very basic tools of time management between the important things and the urgent ones?
Yes, you may be shy and not too kind to go and expose yourself into social professional networking. But, can you see the benefit of exploring, discovering, defining and designing your own brand based on your talents and capabilities that you can easily expose to others in such networking opportunities?
Yes, ‘you know people’, then wouldn’t it be great that you know how to maximize those relationships you already have as a powerful portfolio of resources to help you achieving your goals?
All of this is possible and much achievable when you hire a Career Coach. So as you see, I can facilitate a journey that may start on your resume (or not) but doesn't end until you believe in your inner power, open up your mind for new(or forgotten) effective tools and have confidence in beginning to channel your hard work towards a path that produce the wanted results.
Switch your mind for a minute and think of all the benefits you may achieve once you decide you have what it takes to move on to have the career of a lifetime and not just a job to make a living.
Change is going to be part of your life, anyway. Wouldn’t it be best that you take charge of it?

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” John F. Kennedy

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