Heard at Career Transition Workshop-Dallas, Tue 7/20/10

Session 2 Career Choices and Consequences: How to Find your Future Focus

Determining Your Destination

• Confusion when you are:
• Uninvolved
• Unclear
• Undecided
• Unfocused
• If you chase two rabbits, both will escape
• Can't kill two moose (you had to have been there to hear the rest of the story)
• God gave everyone the responsibility to make a decision
• Be a person of action
• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take-Michael Jordan
• Short term pain for long-term gain
• The most overrated joy after child birth is owning your own business
• The Millionaire Next Door-by Thomas J. Stanley
• Plan A-Quest for the Best
• Plan B-Allure of the Available
• X marks your sweet spot
• Beware the Myth of Transferable Skills-it will be on the final exam :-)
• The more mature the worker seeks the less mature company
• The less mature worker seeks the more mature company

Three C's Model

• Career
• Focal point
• Best boss
• Corporate Culture
  
• Compensation
• 80%-120% range
• Community
• Go-No Go

Distance Yourself as Distinct

• Hiring authorities are not interested in how you are alike but what makes you different
• Celebrate the uniqueness of you
• Who are you? And what are you doing here?

Pursuing Your Passion

• Don't ask what the world needs but what makes you come alive
• Two tramps in mud time-poem by Robert Frost
• Thrill of soaring is always preceded by the fear of falling-Neal Jeffrery
• New International Version (©1984)
  Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
• If God seems far away guess who moved?-poster in college dorm room

Relationship Within

• God Uniquely Makes You
• God Uniquely Molds you
• God Uniquely Moves you
• God Uniquely Missions you

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