Could you repeat Mr. Cinderella’s story in your career exploration process?

Scarcity-thinking generates an attitude that prompts you to seek to acquire more for yourself no matter how much you have and to treat others as competitors no matter how little they have. It goes totally against the Abundance thinking that generates a universe of possibility.

A great example aligned to the power of inquiry is Paul Harding, an indie writer who won the Pulitzer price for fiction last week for the novel “Tinkers”. As per an interview the New York Times published today ‘his manuscript languished in a desk drawer for nearly three years”, but in what the NY Times called a dramatic literacy Cinderella story he not only found a publisher but won the Pulitzer. His work was rejected by all major publishers while getting feedback that he had to add action to a story that was too quiet while moving throughout the minds of the characters. He believed in the story and did not change a bit of it. The words his teachers shared while at school kept strong on him by fulfilling his own definition of good.

Are you fulfilling your own definition of good? Have you got clarity in your own distinctive professional brand?

It disturbs me to see the façade many people play when networking and marketing their Brands. It is so obvious for the viewer to see when the script is real and when it is just a charade. Have you watched a performance when the actor is completely wrong for the part? Branding in order to be effective has to be authentic, real, and extraordinary.

You could be Mr. Cinderella (or Mrs. Cinderella!) if you also played by your own Professional Branding definition of good.

It is not about what others can take from you.

It is not about what others can give to you.

It is not about what they do have that you don’t.

It is about making an authentic and meaningful contribution to what you do.

Your career progression is not an obstacle course. There are landmarks to achieve. Be PRESENT and grow with them, incorporate the experiences consciously to your thinking and create possibilities. Once you are willing to ‘get over it’, then you can move on to what’s out there waiting to be achieved.
Write your own story with your own words!
“There is vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable not how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open".
                    - Martha Graham, quoted by Agnes De Mille,
                      Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham.

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Your Professional Branding and Career Coach because…you can change what happens next!
Mariela Tinoco-Aramburu
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