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The difference simply depends upon your mindset. Are you more likely to think in negative terms (e.g., failure) or positive terms (e.g., success)? Failure is on the same continuum as success. Fear is used to mask the reality of what you’d truly love to do, be or have, and prevents us from taking responsibility for our career choices.

When people are in low paying jobs where they are miserable, and use their kids’ expenses (kids is the “politically correct” excuse right now) or other excuses for not hiring a career coach to get a much better paying job that they will love, it is a reflection of them not taking responsibility for their career.

We all have a committee of one in our head (aka ego) that loves to chatter. This chatter reflects conscious and unconscious thought patterns, and reinforces the limiting fears and concerns. Or, it supports the illusion that you will have a great career someday when other things change. This keeps us from becoming responsible for our chatter and pursuing a great career: work smarter, have financial freedom, and realize our dreams now.

If we were to delve slightly deeper into our chatter, we would find that the fear is:

normally a fear of the unknown,
not being in control of a situation,
being right that others are wrong, or
avoiding someone else’s poor opinion of us.

If we were to delve slightly further, you would find that the true fear is:

not saying the right thing in an interview,
not having your ideas heard,
others not making the right decisions on your behalf,
not being clear about your career direction,
effectively dealing with difficult bosses, employees or co-workers, and/or
making difficult ethical decisions.

The point is that you need to get real about your true fear(s). When you can specifically state what you fear in your job or having a career that you enjoy, then you can make a positive and profound difference.

Why? What you focus on will expand. If you focus on fear, it will consume you, hinder any forward movement and impede your decision-making. If you focus on your goals and move forward with a specific plan in place, confidence will replace fear.

Steps for Positive Results:

1) Declare a positive mantra. This will start you thinking in a different manner. Without doing so, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to move on to Step Two since your excuses are designed to prevent you from changing anything.

2) Hire a coach. WHY? Usually you will make it harder than it needs to be to achieve results on your own. We inevitably get in our own way. Having a coach will support your forward progress to keep you on a positive track.

3) Design a results oriented goal and focused action plan to move forward, and fine-tune it with your coach. This will support your results by acknowledging your achievements and reinforcing the positive expansion of them.

(c)Jeannette L. Seibly, 2009

Jeannette Seibly is a nationally recognized coach, who has helped thousands of people work smarter, have financial freedom, and realize their dreams now. Along the way, she created three millionaires. You can contact her: JLSeibly@gmail.com OR http://SeibCo.com

Are You Ready for the New World of Work?

Regardless of your age, many workers will go through unemployment again in their lifetime. Now is the time to learn lifelong skills on how to sell yourself and your value; and how to transfer your current skills into new opportunities and pursuits.

We are now experiencing the start of a new world of work, again! Back in the 90’s, changes started occurring much more rapidly than they had in the previous decades. Now, it’s moving forward again. Are you ready?

Baby boomers, early in their careers, were willing to take risks, take a stand for what is right, and move heaven and earth to make it happen. Then, they became older, and other priorities took over, e.g., kids, mortgages, retirement and caring for their parents.

Then, the next generation of movers and shakers evolved (aka Generations X and Y) and their views of success are different. They are not willing to settle for the old standards employers have used for too long to determine career paths, recognition and paychecks. They look at risk taking as something they will do as long as there is a clear payback.

The common denominator between all the generations: most have not had to work to find their next job!

What is the major hindrance in finding the next job? Attitudes! Self talk and how we communicate with others limit the types of work and job challenges we are offered, and the corresponding paychecks.

Regardless of your generation, there are three basic types of job seekers:

1) Do nothing and wait out the economy. They are waiting for employers to call them. (Hint: It’s not going to happen.) Your waiting will impact you professionally, and your family financially. Many times your health and well-being can suffer, too. Let go of the illusion that someone will serendipitously recognize your value by simply reading your resume and offer you your dream job.

2) Yeah, but’s. They make luke-warm attempts at finding a job, and rely heavily upon resume blasts or support groups to talk about finding a job. While support groups can be great in helping people, unless they are results-focused they will unconsciously reinforce the “I won’t do it” mentality that often limits job seekers (e.g., won’t relocate, won’t work in a different industry or profession, will stay unemployed so children can keep their current friends, will keep relying solely on blasting out resumes, etc.)

3) I’m the one! They have an attitude that says, “I’m career directed, job fit ready and open to transition out of my old career path when it is no longer working.” They realize the only limiting factor is how they view themselves, and they create positive self talk.

These job seekers are open to effectively exploring, investigating and educating themselves so that they can communicate their value to their next boss! They do not rely upon past job titles and job responsibilities – they have taken the time to clarify who they are, their inherent strengths and weaknesses and how to communicate these traits effectively. They are ready for the new world of work.

They effectively use their network to market themselves using voice-to-voice conversations to elicit the best of others’ ideas and opinions, which goes beyond tweeting, and posting requests on their Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn pages.

As a result, they are the first to learn about the myriad of new opportunities being created throughout the world due to new businesses, industries, inventions, and professions; and unadvertised job openings (an estimated 90% of all openings!).

Their focus is to find a job that matches their goals and provides job fit–now and in the future. So they prepare great questions to ensure clarity about the company’s direction, and how the company envisions their path for success. They are comfortable saying, “No, thanks.” to job offers, when they are clear it won’t work.

Are you ready for the new world of work?

About the author: Jeannette Seibly is a nationally recognized coach, who has helped 1000’s of people achieve unprecedented results. She has created three millionaires. You can contact her: JLSeibly@gmail.com OR http://SeibCo.com

(C)Jeannette L. Seibly, 2009