Career Development

Resources For Work and Career

How To Manage Your Lost Career

How To Manage Your Lost Career” is an e-course that is designed to enable you to take a look at where you are now and where you want to be with your career. Maybe you are not happy with what you are currently doing? Maybe you want something else but don’t know what that “Something Else” actually is?

This course includes a number of exercises and assignments that will enable you to answer all of your questions and teach you all you need to know in order for your to rediscover your lost career!

You spend so much of your time at work it makes sense to do something that you are best suited to and something that you enjoy! “How To Manage Your Lost Career” will get you back on track. It will be just like taking your car in for a service! But this time we will be looking under the hood of your career!

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles. In the last five years, the United States has lost 2.6 million jobs — the most in any five-year period since the Great Depression. In the 2006 edition of his legendary job-hunting book, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? Richard Nelson Bolles offers hope and presents an inspiring and detailed plan for finding your place in this uncertain job market. . . With an extended preface that addresses job loss, vacancies, and outsourcing and updated references on how to use the Internet in your job-hunt throughout, the 2006 PARACHUTE addresses the top concerns of today ’s job-hunters. . . (Amazon.com)

What Color Is Your Parachute Workbook by Richard Nelson Bolles. This is the companion book to the yearly edition of Parachute which has career discovery exercises in the back. This workbook lays out those exercises in an easy to use workbook format.

The Pathfinder by Nicolas Lore. “Through goal setting, list making, and other techniques, the book leads readers though the process of deciding exactly what they want to do for a living and finding a way to make it happen. Lore realizes that people have different temperaments and decision-making methods, so he provides individualized advice to suit each one. He also understands that creating a new career requires courage as well as desire, so The Pathfinder devotes plenty of space to motivation and overcoming fears. While anyone looking for a new career will find direction with this guide, people who didn't know they were looking may decide to start once they go through Lore's probing self-examination process.” (Amazon.com)

Resources for Redefining Retirement

Too Young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of Your Life by Howard Stone and Marika Stone. For those over 50 who want inspiration and resources aimed at exploring the 'what's next?' question. With Americans living longer, healthier lives, the conventional idea of retirement is obsolete. Millions of Americans are working past the age of 65, not because they have to, but because they want to. Many, like The Stones, discover second careers, start their own businesses, or go back to school. Enlightening exercises, lists of publications, home exchange organizations, and websites are included to help the reader make meaningful choices.

Claiming Your Place At The Fire: Living The Second Half Of Your Life On Purpose by Richard Leider and David Shapiro.
More than 10,000 people turn 50 every day in the U.S.; how do they handle this shift? Claiming Your Place at the Fire invites this group of "new elders" to ask four key questions: Who am I? New elders synthesize and transfer the wisdom of the past into the present. Where do I belong? They have a powerful sense of where they have come from, where they are, and where they are going. How do I bring my passions alive? They rejoice in rediscovering their life's work, their calling, their vocation. What is my life's purpose? Freed from imposed schedules and demands, new elders now find the freedom to create their lives anew. This timely book describes how new older adults can rekindle the good life, relight the fire within, and share that warmth and light with others.

The Open Road: America Looks At Aging a film by Nina Gilden Seavey, a new documentary . . . examines the personal and social impact of the impending retirement of America's 77 million Baby Boomers. Through insightful stories of individuals confronting the obstacles and pursuing opportunities presented by the "third stage" of life, THE OPEN ROAD probes the important social, economic, and cultural issues at stake. It is a film that will make people think, talk, and plan for the road that lies ahead. . . . THE OPEN ROAD will help Americans from all walks of life gain understanding of the importance of this imminent demographic change and to begin planning for the challenges and obstacles that must be overcome to successfully shape America's future into the first half of the 21st century.

My Time: Making The Most Of The Bonus Decades After 50 by Abigail Trafford, Kids grown? Mortgage paid? Career topping out? What now? In My Time, best-selling author Abigail Trafford answers the questions more and more 50-somethings are asking themselves. Thanks to the longevity revolution of recent decades, today's 55- to75-year-olds are living and working longer and healthier than ever before. This generation is the first to experience the period of personal renaissance in between middle and old age-what Trafford calls "My Time." . . .

Trafford blends personal stories with expert opinions and the latest research on adult development. From the psychoanalyst who gave up his practice to write self-help books, to the widowed mother of three who reinvented herself as a successful photographer, true tales of crisis and triumph sparkle on every page of this inspiring and insightful book. Like Gail Sheehy's Passages, My Time profoundly impacts the journey through our adult years.

The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential In The Second Half Of Life by Gene D. Cohen As the baby-boom generation swells the ranks of the American middle-aged, life expectancy has increased 50% since 1900, older people are becoming more physically and mentally active than ever before and diseases are more easily preventable, detectable and treatable. A doctor specializing in gerontology for 30 years, Cohen focuses on creativity, which he stresses is "not just for geniuses" but holds potential for everyone at every age.

. . . He cites the latest scientific research, which disproves dated views of inevitably deteriorating brain function, points out the advantages of experience and the willingness to experiment that come with age, and notes that the adversity and loss that often crop up later in life actually encourage creativity by forcing change. With sidebars noting the accomplishments of many people well past midlife, excellent exercises for igniting creativity and thorough appendices, Cohen provides a wealth of information and a fresh, timely perspective on aging. (Publishers Weekly)

Resources for Life

Design Your Life Workbook

* Re-ignite Your Passion for Living
* Discover Your True Life Purpose
* Create a Financially Successful Vehicle That Expresses Your Unique Gifts
* Lay Out an Immediate and Long-term Action Plan
* Set Smart Goals
* Take Action

To Create The Life You Were Meant To Live

To receive the full benefit of this workbook use it in conjunction with a coaching program. If you sign up for a 3-month coaching program with me you will receive this workbook as my gift to you.

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Life Launch: A Passionate Guide To The Rest Of Your Life by Frederic M. Hudson and Pamela D McLean. There are several times during our adult years when we find compelling reasons to create a new chapter. Whether it is a move out of the corporate climate into an entrepreneurial challenge, a transition from the ‘24/7’ workdays, to a balanced lifestyle, a major shift on the home front, a reevaluation of the meaning of money, or a first step into retirement, lives and careers must be redesigned over and over again—chapter by chapter –as we live them. This book provides a step-by-step plan for doing just that!

I Can’t Believe I Get Paid To Do This: Remarkable People Reveal 26 Proven Strategies For Making Your Dreams a Reality by Stacey Mayo. In nine chapters, Stacey Mayo interviews eight people who have made their unique dreams come true. These include the first American woman to climb Mt. Everest, a single mom who became a self-made millionaire while keeping her relationship with her son her top priority, and a 10th grade dropout who rose from bankruptcy to earning of $40,000 to $50,000 net profit per month from his internet endeavors.

The inspiring interviews dig into the nitty gritty details of the formula for each interviewee’s success. Mayo follows each interview with three key success principles she gleaned from the interview subject’s story, and with “Coaching Questions” so you can explore your grasp and mastery of the success principles--or coach others on them. (Coaching Insider).

The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Destiny by Janet Bray Atwood & Chris Atwood. What One Thing Can Change Your Entire Life? . . . Passion. When you have it, life is exciting, thrilling, fulfilling. Problems become challenges to overcome. Doors open in ways you couldn’t have predicted. Nothing can stop you.

The Passion Test™ provides a simple, effective way to discover your passions. Thousands of people around the world have used this powerful process to clarify what’s most important in their lives and to begin living their destiny now.

Chris and Janet Attwood . . .show you how to:
• Clarify your top passions
• Stay on track with your passions
• Overcome the inevitable challenges
• Attract everything you’d like to have in your life

Resources For Business

The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. “This book is a guide to success for small business owners. Gerber is the founder of a consulting company for small businesses. In the beginning of the book, Gerber cites the well-known failure-rate statistics for small business: 40% fail in 1 year. Of those who survive 1year, 80% fail in 5 years, and of those who survive 5 years, another 80% fail. Over the years, Gerber has observed that the small business owners who fail often share a number of characteristics, while those who succeed do so not by luck, brains, or perseverance, but by taking a different approach. This book explains the approach that is necessary for a business to survive and thrive.” (Amazon.com)

The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing For Small Business: Low-Cost/High Return Tools and Techniques That Really Work by Tom Antion. Effective, affordable, low-risk online marketing techniques for small business owners. Most small businesses are not taking advantage of the powerful and inexpensive Internet-based marketing tools and techniques that are available to them. . .The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business gives the small business owner or aspiring entrepreneur the real-world tools and tactics to market their small business around the world with little investment and even less risk. Full of practical ideas on reaching new customers and increasing sales, this book will make a real difference in the success rate of small businesses and start-ups everywhere. (Amazon.com)

Get Clients Now! A 28 Day Program For Professionals And Consultants by business coach C.J. Hayden Get Clients Now empowers readers with its 28-day plan for energizing their marketing efforts and dramatically increasing their client base. With over 100 tactics, tools, and foolproof recipes customizable for any professional service business, this new edition is powered up with road-tested strategies for relationship-based marketing in the Internet age, plus proven techniques for overcoming the fear, resistance, and procrastination that block effective action. Readers will learn:

* how to choose the right marketing tactics for their situation and personality
* a foolproof method to diagnose exactly what is missing in their marketing and how to fix it
* how to use the latest Internet marketing techniques like e-zines, search engine optimization, and blogging
* hands-on approaches for replacing unproductive cold calling with the power of relationship marketing
* and much, much more!

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