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Overcoming Ageism in Your Job Search
Feeling overlooked for job opportunities due to your age? 1. Omit ancient history from your resume. 2. Address it by naming outright how many productive years you plan to contribute before you retire. 3. Take the underdog approach. 4. Make sure your skills are current. The other piece is to check your mindset. Make sure…
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Creating Purpose in Your Body of Work: Meet Pam Slim
Pamela Slim is an author, community builder, consultant and former corporate director of training and development at Barclays Global Investors. She focused her first decade in business on creating and delivering training programs for large companies such as HP, Charles Schwab, 3Com, Chevron and Cisco Systems. Since 2005, Pam has advised thousands of entrepreneurs as…
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Saying NO to find your YES
Learning to say no is a valuable piece of finding your calling and following your purpose. When you feel obliged to follow the whims and meet the needs of others, it can be almost impossible to hear your own needs and then follow them. Saying no to the non-essentials is a function of healthy boundaries.…
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Resume Writer Wanted
ARE YOU ENTHUSIASTIC, creative, and highly motivated? Do you want the freedom and flexibility to work whenever and wherever you want? Love to write and help others shine? Pay earnest attention to detail and work well under deadlines? If you can prioritize and format information in a concise, compelling manner, you may be the person…
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She worked as a maid. Now her memoir is a best-seller.
Maid: Hard work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive Several years ago I met a young woman at a coffee shop. She wore short braids, overalls over a T shirt, and a tiny baby tucked gently on her right elbow. It was an interview of sorts. She came highly recommended by my friends…
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That time I stayed in the boat.
When I was about 21, my then boyfriend and his friends and I went out on Whitefish lake in northwestern Montana many a summer’s eve. Tommy, a friend, had access to his dad’s boat, complete with water-skis. One by one, my guy and his friends dropped into the cool, glassy water, then carved beautiful arcs…
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Paths to Purpose: Let’s Reverse Engineer This Compass Thing
We’ve been talking about some of the ways your body and emotions are paths to finding your calling. Once your inner gps is calibrated – meaning you’ve been tuning in and are learning how your own body and emotions guide you, which sensations lead toward or away from your own true north, etc. – this…
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Paths to Purpose: Emotion
The second path to purpose that I teach (after the body) is emotion. This is ironic, since most of us are taught to make decisions (like a career path) logically. We often dismiss or ignore our emotions when we’re making a critical decision, deeming them untrustworthy. But did you know that people whose brain damage…
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One Path to Finding Your Purpose: The Body
Whether you’re young or old, work or don’t, ever felt fire in your belly or always felt like you missed the calling boat like I once felt, last week I assured you: You are called. Your calling may be trying to reach you through various forms of communications. One path to finding your purpose is…
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I thought my life would feel more meaningful
Every week I get a call from someone new who says: “I thought my life would feel more meaningful.” “I’ve tasted a life filled with courage, spark, and creativity. I miss it.” “I have a growing sensation that I’m not in the right career field.” “I’m burned out. Where’s the zest I used to have…
Jennifer Shryock
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