Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

How do you know when you're perfectionism is getting in the way of your progress? Or is it what helps you to be successful. Or is it somewhere in between.

A short while back we released a podcast episode on "perfectionism" and how you might not even know it's holding you back.

We got great feedback on this episode from many of our listeners. Caroline Adams and I scheduled a followup conversation to debrief on the podcast and what we learned from creating a podcast on perfectionism. Ironically we discovered on creating a podcast on perfectionism that our own perfectionist tendencies had reared their ugly head.

This turned into a private conversation about where perfectionism becomes an issue for both of us. We go deep into where it's caused challenges for our own lives and work… Even when we began this conversation we never intended it to become a podcast we're sharing it with you because we also discuss how we each individually handle the perfectionism when it pops up ready to hold us back! Learn more at https://happentoyourcareer.com/233

What challenges will you have when making a career change at 30? Or secret advantages when you're 40? What about "imagined" challenges at 20? Find out what to do to about it!

https://happentoyourcareer.com/career-change-at-30-20-40-and-50

How do you get in touch with people who are incredibly busy? Such as executives that may hold the key to starting a new career at a company you're excited about, or might be a great mentor for you when making a career change? Darrah Brustein is an expert networker, founder of Network Under 40, Equitable Payments, and Financial Whiz Kids. She breaks down what you need to do to connect with hard to reach people and make them want to help you!

What you'll learn

• How to reach out to executives or other people that are really hard to get in touch with
• How to write an awesome networking message to amplify your career search
• Tips to getting people to want to help you on your career change journey

Have career change questions or want to make an introduction? Email [email protected]

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1. Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)
2. Discover Your Strengths to Find Your Ideal Career (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

What would you want to do if you weren't on your current path? Louise McNee had always been the type of person who knew exactly where she wanted to go and was driven to make it happen. That is until she was no longer sure what she wanted to be doing with her life. Listen to find out how she went from in confident executive to in tears no longer sure what was up or down to learning what creates a truly fulfilling life for her!

http://happentoyourcareer.com/230

Dan Pink has written multiple New York Times best sellers, he's been a speech writer for Al Gore, He's given many Keynotes all over the world. His current book "When" has been sitting atop the best seller list for months. Looking at his career right now, you'd have no idea that at one point he was in law school but decided being a lawyer wasn't for him, got into politics and after the initial luster wore off that the political space wasn't for him either.

So how did Dan go from shifting career focus multiple times to deciding to become a writer with relative ease?

Well… turns out, he didn't!

Find out exactly what happened here https://happentoyourcareer/229

What is my passion?? Passion can be defined in many ways in relation to your career.

Christie Mims, the founder of the Revolutionary Club, a Forbes Top 100 website for your career, wants people to separate their passion from their job. According to her, in the grander scale of things, passion is bigger than just your job.

So, what is passion?

Basically, passion is who you are and your job is how you express that passion.

Passion is your North Star and your job is fueled by your passion.

Finding out what is your passion takes a little bit of courage in order to get off the beaten career path and embrace who you are and what motivates you to do good work.

"You can be known for being a strategic thinker. You can be known for being the person that's calm in a crisis. You can be known for being the person who has a great sense of humor who is able to connect with people." You can help identify some of your best qualities to find your passion by thinking about some of your biggest personality traits that are positive and start to socialize those traits with yourself and learn ways you can best communicate them to others.

In the podcast, Christie shares how to find your passion and how to turn that into a career that you love.

Listen here!

Christie Mims is the founder of a Forbes Top 100 website for your career, The Revolutionary Club – THE Destination for Smart Women Who Won't Settle For Anything Less Than Career Happiness. Christie was also named a top career expert in 2016 and her work has been featured all over the internet.

Christie is an expert in finding and doing things you're passionate about and how to turn it into your career. Her mission is to help people find work they absolutely love.

Currently, Christie is providing a free 5-day Passion Challenge to uncover your passion and feel excited about work again.

Click here to find the passion for work you love!

• How to stop listening to the noise of following the safe path and how to break away from the path of least resistance
• What passion really is and how it relates to your job
  • What is passion v. What is hobby
• Embracing more of who you are and taking a risk to find your passion
• How to find what drives you to enjoy the work you do

Have you ever been so excited about a new project or goal that you've set for yourself that you just can't wait to start?

You sit and visualize yourself going through the motions of the process, checking off all the boxes on your to-do list, and finally you check off that last task, then you bask in the feeling of victory after you've achieved your accomplishment.

That entire process, the drive and determination, the movement forward, that feeling of accomplishment…that is what it means to be unhackable.

To be unhackable means to close the gap that exists between your ideas and the implementation of your ideas.

It means building yourself up to become an unstoppable force that reaches goals.

Take that philosophy and apply it to the process of your career transition and you become unhackable by eliminating all of the obstacles that stop you from reaching your dream career.

What drives many people to career change is the idea that there is a big potential for something more than what they've got going on in their career right now.

But sometimes even people with the strongest mindsets, get hacked.

There are a handful (maybe more than a handful) of things that stop people dead in their tracks as they begin their journey into a new career.

Some begin to feel like imposters as they begin to progress in their career change.

Some self-sabotage and start doubting their potential, then slowly they unintentionally begin to put the brakes on their path to a new career.

But just like computer systems have software that work to prevent getting hacked, there are ways for you to be proactive in becoming unhackable.

In order to get in front of the hacking, we need to identify what is leaving you vulnerable to getting hacked in the first place.

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."―Buddha

The most common obstacles that stop a lot of people during their career change are all about their mindset.

Here are the top three things stopping people from becoming unhackable (with some examples):

1) Problem: They lack the confidence in their knowledge & skills

They start thinking about themselves in a self-sabotaging ways.

• They've been imagining that they're experts in something.
• That they really don't have the transferable skills required to follow through on a new career.
• That they're really not good enough to make a career change.

2) Problem: They're unsure of the direction or focus they want to pursue

• They have a lot of interests, a lot of passions, but they're not sure that their skills really apply to either.
• They think that working in passions is a myth and that sticking to what they've always known and done is a safer bet, than taking a chance on something new.
• Nothing has worked out for them to this point, that they're stuck on what's next.

3) Problem: They don't know how to sell yourselves

• They doubt the value their skills bring to the table.
• They don't know how to effectively market themselves.
• They're not "salespeople." They don't want to seem pushy.
• They're afraid of rejection.

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." – Napoleon Hill

Well, we change your mindset when it comes to your career change.

1. Get out of your own head and stop judging yourself. 2. Refocus your time and energy on your goal.

If you're struggling with the confidence in your own knowledge and skills in a particular industry, you need to, first, acknowledge that there is a reason you started down the path of career change (and KUDOS to you on that note, because not a lot of people even make it as far as to acknowledge that a change needs to be made).

Remember that you started down this path because you knew that there was something bigger for you out there (and there is!).

So, if you need to, take a step back and take a breath and then come back into your process of career change refreshed and motivated to continue. As Kary Oberbrunner says, "Show up filled up."

You are the expert and the guru. You have the skills to bring value to people.

Regain your perspective and come back full of what you already know you know and move forward.

Who do you want to help? What do you want to contribute your talents to?

If you are having a little trouble answering those questions, ask yourself:

What have at least three people asked you for advice on?

Those people have come to you for help in something they trust you enough to help solve. That makes you credible. That proves that there is a need out there and that skill makes it something you can capitalize on.

From that little exercise, you can align your skills and strengths and begin to be more intentional in your career change.

Ever heard of a Values Proposition Statement (VPS)?

Anyone that is looking to change careers should have one.

Think of it like the menu at a drive-thru window. You know when you pull up to a drive-thru, you know exactly what they're selling.

That is what your VPS should do.

It provides clarity of your intentions and lays out what you have to offer your next employer.

Here's a formula to give you a little framework to build on:

Once you have your VPS lined up and ready to roll, you're ¾ of the way there.

The last quarter of the marketing equation requires you to change your mindset from "selling yourself" to a mindset that selling is serving, and marketing your knowledge and skills is storytelling.

Once you can frame your pitch in that way, you're golden.

People don't want to be sold, they want to be helped.

Becoming unhackable is a mindset change.

Building your confidence, finding your footing in the direction you want to take your career, and learning how to take all of that and put it into action by effectively marketing your skills and knowledge as assets will make you unhackable to continue to successfully transition your career.

Your journey into a new career isn't easy.

And because the process is a journey, we know it's easy to let yourself to get hacked.

If you're finding a little bit of difficulty building your confidence or finding your footing on what career path is right for you, we have world-class career coaches that can help you get where you envision your next career.

Visit us at https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/coaching and let us know where you find yourself getting hacked and one of our coaches will be glad to help you!

Where does perfectionism come from in the first place? What's the meaning of perfectionist really?

Here's your perfectionism test on whether or not perfectionism is holding you back in your career change. Answer these three questions to get started OR take the entire perfectionist test by clicking here!

1.Do you have a track record of success in one area of your life (career, fitness, finances, relationships, etc)?

2.Have you ever said something similar to

What if you already have a very comfortable job but you want more? How do you create the environment to make a change when you already have it pretty good but you know that something MUST change? Get the entire episode and transcripts at http://happentoyourcareer.com/225

What if the moments in our lives that feel the most awkward are actually the most valuable? That's the question that Melissa Dahl poses in her new book Cringeworthy, a Theory of Awkwardness. It's also something that I've been pondering for about 10 years now. Particularly the area of having awkward and difficult conversations and how they impact your life.

Want to completely change how you have difficult conversations? Go to http://happentoyourcareer.com/224