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Career Moves
Time for another lesson in the ABCs of success. Ponder these definitions as you review where you are in your career and your life; use them to plan where you want to be six months from now.
Passionate; enthusiastic. You truly have to love what you do in order to do it well.
Impressive; remarkable. Too many people settle for the ordinary because they don’t believe they are capable of the extraordinary.
Chief Executive Officer; the head of a firm — Each of us is the CEO of a personal business, “Me, Inc.”, and must Create Extraordinary Outcomes.
Detached; without involvement. If you want to succeed, you have to make things happen rather than let them happen.
To take pleasure in something. If you don’t like what you’re doing, you won’t do it well.
Stubborn and contrary in nature. “Sticking to your guns” won’t help you understand other points of view.
Showing courage, boldness and determination. If you don’t take risks, you’ll never succeed.
Excessive pride or arrogance. Successful people don’t brag about “what they’ve done” because they are too busy finding the answer to “What’s next?”
Ability to act on your own. Empowerment comes from within.
Language understood by a particular profession, group or culture. The key to effective communication lies in using the language of your audience.
Minor difficulty. Implementing personal and career plans rarely goes smoothly, but that doesn’t mean that the plan is wrong.
To criticize severely. Showing someone how to do things correctly is more important than telling someone what was done wrong.
Singer, actor and author with an uncanny ability to change her style and image to maintain audience appeal for more than 30 years. Reinventing is the key to enjoying a 40-yearplus worklife.
Trivial or gossipy conversation. Social conversation is a necessity of any workday, but it shouldn’t fuel the grapevine.
The result. Have a clear picture of what you want to happen before you develop a plan to make it happen.
Tenaciously continuing despite problems or difficulties. Thomas Edison tried to invent the light bulb more than 10,000 times before he finally succeeded.
A question. If you don’t ask, you’ll never learn the answer.
Showing consideration and thoughtfulness toward someone or something. You get what you give, so remember “The Golden Rule.”
The statements made and assurances given by someone trying to sell something. A job interview is a personal sales presentation; “Me, Inc.” is the product.
Fortune telling with a special deck of cards. Forget about the hand you’re dealt; make your own luck.
Not grown to a full extent. Too many people play “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” when their career plateaus prematurely, as they regret not seizing ongoing learning opportunities.
The atmosphere; feeling or ambience somebody senses from a person or group. The type of people with whom you associate shapes your outlook and actions.
Constantly complain. Whiners never win; winners never whine.
Someone who likes foreign people, cultures and things. You learn more from those different from you.
A period of 365 days. What you do each day has an impact on successive days.
A 2,200-milelong river in Africa. A river appears the same, but is always changing. No person is the same from day to day.
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Summer jobs aren’t just for students anymore. Teachers on break, retirees looking for some extra cash and workers considering a career change are all examples of people who can benefit from trying a new job during the summer.