Rethinking Abundance Mentality Job Search Version

Rethinking Abundance Mentality Job Search Version I love the idea of the abundance mentality. You can find all kinds of descriptions online that talk about the abundance mentality, but the gist of it is that there is PLENTY to go around.  There is an abundance (defined:more than an adequate quantity) of _________ (whatever you think there is a lot of). For example, right now, with todays sucky housing marketing, there is an overabundance of houses on clearance. In Puerto Rico, where I lived for a few years, there was an abundance of amazing beaches to visit. In Utah, where I live now, there is an abundance of amazing geological wonders. Theres more than enough to go around. thats the idea. If you have an Abundance Mentality you are not concerned about getting your fair piece of the pie, worrying that the pie will run out.  You think the pie is big enough for everyone to have as much as they want. I was reminded of the Abundant Mentality a few nights ago when my 10 year old son showed me the logo stuff he traded with a friend of his.  When I was his age I was not a trader I was more a hoarder. I was proud of what I had and for some reason was not open to trading with others.  My son, however, trades toys with friends all the time.  Its somewhat foreign to me, but they are all excited to do it.  They arent worried about having less, or fewer, or older, or whatever. They know there is plenty to go around. I thought about how, as job seekers, we are usually worried about losing out on that one job, or the few job openings that are right for us. We are concerned that if someone else gets our job, we lose out, and well have more days, weeks, months to be in unemployment hell. Its scary. Lately, there has really not been any abundance of jobs. I started to wonder, though, if we are thinking about abundance of the wrong thing? Should we be wondering about an abundance of jobs (no one feels there is an abundance of jobs right now)? Lets go back to the beginning I think many of us are not after a JOB so much as we are after an income. Is there an abundance of MONEY? Seriously, is there an abundance of MONEY?? I think there is. We spend a lot of time chasing after the job, and get discouraged because we feel there isnt enough to go around, all the while there is an abundance of money.  (read my post on the Job Search Rabbit Hole, where I talk about chasing the wrong thing) We just have to figure out how to get it. What do you think am I on to something or am I just daydreaming? Rethinking Abundance Mentality Job Search Version I love the idea of the abundance mentality. You can find all kinds of descriptions online that talk about the abundance mentality, but the gist of it is that there is PLENTY to go around.  There is an abundance (defined:more than an adequate quantity) of _________ (whatever you think there is a lot of). For example, right now, with todays sucky housing marketing, there is an overabundance of houses on clearance. In Puerto Rico, where I lived for a few years, there was an abundance of amazing beaches to visit. In Utah, where I live now, there is an abundance of amazing geological wonders. Theres more than enough to go around. thats the idea. If you have an Abundance Mentality you are not concerned about getting your fair piece of the pie, worrying that the pie will run out.  You think the pie is big enough for everyone to have as much as they want. I was reminded of the Abundant Mentality a few nights ago when my 10 year old son showed me the logo stuff he traded with a friend of his.  When I was his age I was not a trader I was more a hoarder. I was proud of what I had and for some reason was not open to trading with others.  My son, however, trades toys with friends all the time.  Its somewhat foreign to me, but they are all excited to do it.  They arent worried about having less, or fewer, or older, or whatever. They know there is plenty to go around. I thought about how, as job seekers, we are usually worried about losing out on that one job, or the few job openings that are right for us. We are concerned that if someone else gets our job, we lose out, and well have more days, weeks, months to be in unemployment hell. Its scary. Lately, there has really not been any abundance of jobs. I started to wonder, though, if we are thinking about abundance of the wrong thing? Should we be wondering about an abundance of jobs (no one feels there is an abundance of jobs right now)? Lets go back to the beginning I think many of us are not after a JOB so much as we are after an income. Is there an abundance of MONEY? Seriously, is there an abundance of MONEY?? I think there is. We spend a lot of time chasing after the job, and get discouraged because we feel there isnt enough to go around, all the while there is an abundance of money.  (read my post on the Job Search Rabbit Hole, where I talk about chasing the wrong thing) We just have to figure out how to get it. What do you think am I on to something or am I just daydreaming? Rethinking Abundance Mentality Job Search Version I love the idea of the abundance mentality. You can find all kinds of descriptions online that talk about the abundance mentality, but the gist of it is that there is PLENTY to go around.  There is an abundance (defined:more than an adequate quantity) of _________ (whatever you think there is a lot of). For example, right now, with todays sucky housing marketing, there is an overabundance of houses on clearance. In Puerto Rico, where I lived for a few years, there was an abundance of amazing beaches to visit. In Utah, where I live now, there is an abundance of amazing geological wonders. Theres more than enough to go around. thats the idea. If you have an Abundance Mentality you are not concerned about getting your fair piece of the pie, worrying that the pie will run out.  You think the pie is big enough for everyone to have as much as they want. I was reminded of the Abundant Mentality a few nights ago when my 10 year old son showed me the logo stuff he traded with a friend of his.  When I was his age I was not a trader I was more a hoarder. I was proud of what I had and for some reason was not open to trading with others.  My son, however, trades toys with friends all the time.  Its somewhat foreign to me, but they are all excited to do it.  They arent worried about having less, or fewer, or older, or whatever. They know there is plenty to go around. I thought about how, as job seekers, we are usually worried about losing out on that one job, or the few job openings that are right for us. We are concerned that if someone else gets our job, we lose out, and well have more days, weeks, months to be in unemployment hell. Its scary. Lately, there has really not been any abundance of jobs. I started to wonder, though, if we are thinking about abundance of the wrong thing? Should we be wondering about an abundance of jobs (no one feels there is an abundance of jobs right now)? Lets go back to the beginning I think many of us are not after a JOB so much as we are after an income. Is there an abundance of MONEY? Seriously, is there an abundance of MONEY?? I think there is. We spend a lot of time chasing after the job, and get discouraged because we feel there isnt enough to go around, all the while there is an abundance of money.  (read my post on the Job Search Rabbit Hole, where I talk about chasing the wrong thing) We just have to figure out how to get it. What do you think am I on to something or am I just daydreaming?

Vulnerability is the key to likability at work (and on the farm)

Vulnerability is the key to likability at work (and on the farm) This is the last thing I should be writing on my blog. Because its now clear that the blog is a great dating tool. Propositions all the time. So I should not tell you this, but here it is: It turns out that Im a lousy girlfriend. Not the bad in bed type. Well, sort of. Because Im game for anything, but only as long as I dont have to be vulnerable. At work, Im great because all workplace vulnerability is based in talkingeveryone gets to talk all the timeand Im a very good talker. I can say things that would seem vulnerable, but really, talking is a way for me to constantly make sure that I am in charge. The farmer likes less talk. When I was with the farmer, the first night, and we were having intellectual banter about if he should date someone who will never move to the farm and never make him apple pies, I was winning. I won when we argued if he needed to call God He in a prayer. I told him that I read Hebrew, and in Hebrew the word for God is gender neutral. So after a bunch of verbal sparring, I leaned across the sofa and kissed him. Even though he said he didnt want to kiss. He kissed back, and I felt victorious. Flash forward: To now. To me next to his bed, typing. Because he told me that absolutely today we were not going to do arguing in bed. But thats my favorite thing to do, I told him. In bed. Gearing up for an argument. Lets just have fun, he said. That is fun. Lets go running in the corn field. He loves that. He says he loves running in his fields because hes a guy and women feel close talking and men feel close doing things. But I think he loves running in the corn because the corn is high now, and it makes you feel cozy, and he runs too fast for me to keep up and talk at the same time. Ten million times a year I write about how people would rather work with people they like than people who are competent. And then everyone asks, How can I be more likable? So I tell people the answer: Be more vulnerable. And then I suggest stuff that is easy for me but hard for most people: Admit shortcomings, confess stuff you are having trouble fixing, ask for advice on things you cannot figure out. If you let people see the cracks in your surface, that is where they will find a way in. But in my personal life, this is extremely hard for me. So my own process for figuring out how to be vulnerable with the farmer is actually a good step-by step lesson on how to be vulnerable in any relationship. Later, hours after the run, the farmer sits up in bed, head propped on a pillow. I am undressing at the foot of the bed. I take down my pants and my underwear in one fell swoop. Hey. Hold it, he says. Do you even have underwear on? Why so fast? What about undressing slower? I think about it. I see he wants some sort of strip tease. Not the kind with a pole. But the kind that is sort of casual but has some zing. It already took me three weeks to get rid of the underwear that could have passed for a bathing suit. So now I have the sexy underwear, but I cant really use it. Im very comfortable talking about it, not so comfortable seducing with it. And then there is the bed. And we are on it. And I cannot cope. We are not sparring verbally. So I wait to hear him talk. He talks about things like the cattle, like my day. My meetings. The grass. His sister. Not small talk but not conflict. Something in between that surely is a building block of intimacy, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I am quiet. And then, I think, he feels close to me because I am not arguing with him, so he rolls over on top of me and I nearly cry. From the stress of having to be vulnerable and intimate and not connect with words. I want to talk about my meeting. We got a new board member and he was fun and he liked talking with me and I like when someone likes talking with me because I am so comfortable with that. He said there are not a lot of people in Madison like me and I took that to mean that when I told him that he was full of crap and he should talk to people with his heart, he liked me. I am good with words. I am good with talking. People think Im being intimate with the talking, because for example, I told the guy who I want to be on my board that I waxed off all my pubic hair because I read that 90% of Generation Y girls wax it off and I wanted to see what I was missing. So he thinks Im all vulnerable and intimate with him and we are connecting, but look, Ill tell that stuff to anyone. For years I was the manager telling employees their career will tank if they dont become more vulnerable with their co-workers. At the farm, Im like my employees, but its the non-verbal stuff that flummoxes me. A hand on a chest. A peck on the arm. A stroke on the back. And no talking. The farm is absolutely lovely right now. But I see the corn growing taller and blocking the views Ive almost become used to. And I am worried that I dont know what the winter will bring. It all makes me nervous. And, like an employee who does not have the social skills for management, I wonder if I will get good at this girlfriend stuff any time soon.

Time Management Tips for Personal Branding Success - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Time Management Tips for Personal Branding Success - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Time management plays a key role in your personal branding success. Time management is even more important than your ability to write the books, blog posts, emails, memos, and proposals, and reports needed to inform, convince, and persuade others!   You can know how to write, but unless you can find the time to write, and build your personal brand-building writing time into your day-to-day creative routine, your expertise and ideas will never see the light of day. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus Sharpen Your Creative Mind is an important book for anyone interested in personal branding success. It contains dozens of concise success strategies to help you find the time to write, focus your ideas, clarify your ideas, and write your way to personal branding success. Its a short, fast-read book containing concise, thoughtful essays by contributors who thoughtfully address the obstacles that keep creative individuals from achieving their career and branding goals. Background Manage Your Day-to-Day comes from the Scott Belsky, founder of Behance, a showcase and resource for helping creatives succeed,   and the 99U.com blog that shares insights for creative individuals in all fields of endeavor. You can learn more about Scott Belsky and his first book, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Barriers Between Vision and Reality,   in several previous posts, including Turning Your Book Idea into a Published Book. What youll find in Manage Your Day-to-Day Belskys provocative Foreword, Retooling for a New Era of Work, sets the stage for fresh insights from 20 of todays most tuned-in observers of our digital creative culture, organized in 4 chapters: Building a Rock-Solid Routine, with essays like Harnessing the Power of Frequency, Building Renewal into Your Workday, and Making Room for Solitude. Finding Focus in a Distracted World, with suggestions for Scheduling in Time for Creative Thinking and Banishing Multitasking From Our Repertoire. Taming Your Tools, with timely, provocative ideas for Making E-mail Matter and Reconsidering Constant Connectivity. Sharpening Your Creative Mind, with inspiring thoughts about Creating For You, and You Alone, Training Your Mind to be Ready for Insight, and Letting Go of Perfectionism. The last section is a Coda: a Call to Action by Steven Pressfield, How Pro Can You Go. You can learn more about Steven Pressfield contribution to writing and personal branding in my previous post, How To Write Your Personal Branding Book in Spite Of Yourself. Is Manage Your Day-to-Day for you? Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus Sharpen Your Creative Mind is for you if: Youre so busy working for others that you dont have time to do the projects that you know, in your heart, will advance your career and build your personal brand. As a result, youre always putting your projects on the back burner each month. Your time is controlled by e-mail, social media, and interruptions that leaves you too stressed and fatigued to work at your full creative potential. You have trouble concentrating and getting started when you sit down to write something important, whether its for you, your boss, or your client. Youre looking for a better way to align your energies, your time, and your goals so that you can make the time to build your personal brand.  What makes Managing Your Day-to-Day different? The key to the success of Managing Your Day-to-Day is found in the last two paragraphs of the books preface, written by Jocelyn K. Glei, 99us editor-in-chief. In her words: Because we each have a unique set of strengths, weaknesses, and sensitivities, it is impossible to prescribe a single approach that will work for everyone. The right solution for you will always be personalan idiosyncratic combination of strategies based on your own work demands, habits, and preferences. So, rather than lay out a one-size-fits-all productivity, we provide a playbook of best practices for producing great work. Our hope is that these insights, taken together, will help you shift your mind-set, recalibrate your workflow, and push more incredible ideas to completion. What do you think? Does Managing Your Day-to-Day sound relevant to you? Does it address any of your concerns? Are you able to both survive each day and move forward on your career and personal branding goals? Share your comments, impressions, and questions, below! Author: Roger C. Parker offers advice, writing assistance, and tools for building your personal brand. Get his free 99 Questions to Ask Before You Start to Write   workbook or ask him a question.

6 Tips for Adjusting to a New Boss

6 Tips for Adjusting to a New Boss Its often said you dont quit your job, you quit your manager. Even if youre happy with your job in every other respect, if your relationship with your boss is suffering or you have an issue with their managerial style, it could have a negative impact on your job satisfaction. Though it is possible that problems will arise with an existing boss over time, this is a particularly pertinent problem when it comes to adjusting to a new boss; whether it be because youve started a new role, or new management have entered your company. Different individuals have different styles, so it may take some transitioning to get settled. If a new boss has thrown a bit of a spanner in the works, here are a few tips for adjusting to the new management. 1) Get off on a good foot First impressions can be crucial for your relationship with your new boss, so make sure you get off on the right foot from the very start! In order to make a good impression, make sure that you are always punctual, present yourself smartly and demonstrate your commitment to the job. Try to maintain a positive approach  towards your work and  an optimistic attitude towards your new bosses potential. 2) Dont compare them to a previous boss Whether you were best pals with your previous boss, or you didnt see eye to eye with them, you should allow your new boss to start on a clean slate, without being compared to somebody  else. Treat it as a fresh start, where a new relationship can be forged. Put any previous grievances in the past and equally,  dont put them on a pedestal either. 3) Get to know them and their style Just because your new boss does things differently to how  youre used to, doesnt mean that this is a bad thing. Get to know a bit about your manager as a person, as well as their managerial style. This way you can build an idea of their preferences and things that might tick them off, so you know how to behave around them. You can do this by asking them outright or by observing their behaviour and interactions with others. 4) Ask how you can help Whether your boss is new to the business, or youre settling into a new role, its a good idea to arrange a meeting with your boss in the early days to offer your assistance wherever possible. Managers really appreciate employees who are cooperative and proactive, so try to put the effort in to be helpful and provide them with updates and reports of things going on within the business that they should know. 5) Set targets Arrange a meeting to sit down with your boss and have a thorough chat about the responsibilities of your role, their expectations of you and to assess what their priorities for the business are. You can then set some achievable behavioural or financial goals and targets for the coming months, that you should strive to deliver on. The earlier you can deliver on your promises, the more your boss will feel they can rely on you and regard you as a valuable asset. 6) Allow some time for the dust to settle If you dont click with your boss straight away, dont write them off immediately. Sometimes it can take a bit of time to get used to eachothers working style and if they are new to the company, they may still be settling into their new role. Do your best to be helpful and friendly and hopefully things will improve with time. [Image Credit: Shutterstock]

Why You Should Add Bullet Points On Resume

Why You Should Add Bullet Points On ResumeIn today's economy, having bullet points on your resume is not enough. In this article I am going to discuss some of the options you have to include them and why you should do so.When you are applying for a job, one of the most important consideration is how well prepared you are for the interview. Most hiring managers will look at your resume first to see what you can bring to the table before considering your work experience and past work experience. If you do not offer an organized list of your accomplishments and other qualifications to the hiring manager, it will be difficult to get that job.You should place in at least one to two bullet points on your resume. I recommend doing more, but they are only so big. An employer cannot skim through the rest of your resume to see if there is anything important they missed. Most recruiters work their hardest to find out who a candidate is before they speak with them.A recruiter should always ask f or bullet points, but the hiring manager must be able to see them all to make sure you can tell them exactly what they need to know. The problem with filling out the rest of your resume can be sometimes, but I highly recommend including these ideas as an option. They are worth the time to ensure they are included as an option.If you are going to put in bullet points, the best ones to include are those that relate to the position. If you have several different positions, make sure you clearly define them. Have separate bullet points for each role and use simple language. Things like Manager, Application Developer, Project Manager, Production Manager, and others will be more effective.If you have three different roles and the team members will all have different responsibilities, it will make it more difficult to convey the message about each individual. It may also be helpful to also list the level of responsibility so that you can differentiate between the roles and responsibilities . When the team member needs to reach higher, simply place the phrase 'Lead' under that role.Other than that, you can have bullet points for each qualification, but again, these should relate to the position. Make sure you give them the same level of detail. You do not want to confuse the hiring manager, but you do want to make sure they are completely familiar with the qualifications you have.Finally, when you do put in bullet points on resume, you should consider where your expertise lies. Do not make the mistake of putting every level of responsibility under a heading. Each job requires different skills, so try to focus on the responsibilities that you are better suited for.

Boost Your Startup Today With These Musts!

Boost Your Startup Today With These Musts! Running a modern startup is a lot of hard work, and you are constantly competing with other startups for market share. Any good entrepreneur will know that it is essential to try to take steps that are going to improve the business and boost the way things are run. Improving your startup is crucial because you need to be able to evolve and take things to the next level. There are a lot of things you have to keep in mind when it comes down to making your business more of a success. This is why you need to make sure you are focused and prepared to make changes. You will need to look at what you can do to become more successful. Use these ideas to help you boost your startup moving forward, and achieve the success you want. Digitize If you haven’t yet moved your company onto a digital platform, you need to make sure you do that right away. All modern businesses should be digitized these days because this is the best way of making sure you improve things. Come up with ideas that will help you make the company a success on digital platforms. Start focusing on things like web design and social media profiles to help expand your digital footprint. Hire a Business Consultant Don’t be too precious about your business there is always room for improvement, no matter how good you think things are. The problem is, as a business owner, you are often too close to make objective decisions about things. This is why one of the most important things you can do is to hire a business consultant. They are going to be well suited to taking your company forward onto bigger and better things. Be More Efficient Being more efficient is so important for a modern business, especially in the digital world. So, you need to look at what you can do to make your startup more efficient on a daily basis. Things like outsourcing are an excellent place to begin with this, and you also have to make sure you use software like SHAREit for PC and Windows. Making things as effective and efficient as possible is so important, and this is a great way of helping you take your company forward. Market Cleverly Marketing it the best way of making sure you generate interest and bring more attention to the company. If you can get clever and creative with your marketing, you will be well placed to get more sales and bring more customers to the company. This might mean hiring marketing experts, but it will certainly be worthwhile in the long run. These are just a few of the things you’re going to need to get right if you are serious about helping your business experience future success. There is a lot you need to consider when you are a business owner, and you need to understand that there is a lot that needs to be changed. Put yourself in the driving seat and make sure you do what you can to boost your business today.

Avoiding Workplace BS - CareerAlley

Avoiding Workplace BS - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. By Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss are the owners of the communications agency ROCKdotVOSS and co-authors of the funny-but-true workplace novel B.S., Incorporated. Throughout our careers a combined 40+ years of experience we have learned the science of spotting B.S. in the workplace, and the art of dealing with it. And the truth is, no matter what your job is, you have to deal with some amount of B.S. It can come in many forms: office politics, bad management, forced socialization, turf wars between teams. In our book B.S., Incorporated, we highlight some of the common types of workplace B.S. Its important to learn how to spot the B.S. in your workplace and how to handle it, so you can be truly happier in your job every day. Avoiding workplace BS is one of the most universal skills we have developed (along with a sense of humor!). B.S., Incorporated may be a fictional tale, but its influenced heavily by our personal experiences and lessons we learned in our communications careers, especially working with and advising the CEO and executive leadership team of Best Buy. How did you decide to write a novel about workplace BS? We spent a dozen years working together in a big, crazy, global corporation. One Tuesday, after spending more than four hours in the most unproductive, soul-crushing project meeting you can imagine, we escaped to a bar patio and swapped stories about all the insane things wed seen and the characters wed met throughout our careers. It turns out, wed both kept copious notes enough material for two or three novels. So we pinky-swore that after we sobered up, wed write a novel about it. We wanted to tell a story readers could relate to whether they currently hold a corporate job, survived one or avoided the absurdity altogether. And there are so many universal experiences in the workplace! The dreaded first day on the job. The power-hungry boss. The absolute thrill of finding free food in the breakroom. No matter where you work, or what you do, every job comes with a certain amount of B.S. How much of this story is true? More than you might think but less than youd hope. What do you hope readers will learn from B.S., Incorporated? For anyone who is slogging through some part of a corporate job, I hope he or she reads the book, laughs out loud, and feels less alone. I also hope readers remember how important it is to find your crew your workplace family who will have your back, no matter what happens. Those friendships help you survive whatever B.S. comes your way. Your book has been called surprisingly heartfelt. Was it important to tell that side of the story? Yes, we decided early on to balance the humor with heart, because there are many elements of the corporate experience that are all too real and painful: getting swept out the door in a mass layoff, or caught up in office politics or just being overworked and overwhelmed. Those true-to-life examples have struck a chord with our readers, too. What are one or two of your greatest skill sets that have helped you succeed in owning your own business? First, we both have an innate willingness to learn. Second, we know our limits and are happy to surround ourselves with smart people who know more than we do about certain aspects of the business What advice would you give to others who want to be entrepreneurs? Join a group or network with other entrepreneurs. Weve found the most supportive, generous people who offer wonderful advice! What are you working on now? Were writing the sequel to B.S., Incorporated. So many people shared their crazy workplace stories after reading the first book, we have no shortage of new material! Were happy the book resonated with readers. We are always eager to hear from our readers. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions regarding CareerAlley content. Good luck in your search,Joey Google+