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The New You !!!!!

• Reinventing yourself..

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Reinventing yourself

• Sometimes in order to change your career, you
  need to change yourself. There are many ways to
  do this from attending a course or picking up a
  new skill to the wholesale reinvention of your
  character, appearance and attitude.
• SO, HOW FAR WILL YOU GO?

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Ten Conventional Principles

• Stay open and flexible
• Keep your options open, Go with the flow, Dont
  turn down opportunities
• Cross pollinate
• Take your ideas from one function to another
• Follow your heart
• Dont let practical suggestions from others stop
  you
• Live a little
• Lifes experience provides hints. The more you
  accumulate the more you get a view of life.
  (details!)

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Ten Conventional Principles

• Visualize
• Paint a picture in your minds eye
• Be curious
• Keep your eyes open and antenna up for new people
  and new ideas.
• Network like crazy
• Make a point to meet new people as often as
  possible. New people lead to new opportunities
• Overcome the know it all stages of life
• Adopt a beginners mind. Even if you were well
  schooled.

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Ten Conventional Principles

• Be a life long learner
• Seek new ways to stretch yourself. Attend
  classes (centra, IVTs, etc)
• Embrace new ideas and technology
• Dont get locked in the time warp

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Nine Unconventional Strategies

• Act your way into a new way of thinking
• Start by changing what you do
• Try different paths. Take action and then use
  the feedback.
• Dont analyze or plan your way into a new career
• Stop trying to find your one true self.
• Focus on which of your many possible selves you
  want to test and learn more about
• Allow yourself a transition period in which you
  oscillate between holding on and letting go
• Better to live the contradictions rather than
  come to a premature resolution.

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Nine Unconventional Strategies

• Resist the temptation to start by making a big
  everything in one fell swoop.
• Use the strategy of small wins
• Small steps lead to big changes
• Identify projects that can help you get a feel
  for a new position
• Try to do these as extracurricular activities or
  parallel paths
• Dont just focus on the work
• Find people who are what you want to be and who
  can support you for the transition

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Nine Unconventional Strategies

• Dont wait for a cataclysmic moment when the
  truth is revealed
• Use everyday occurrences to find meaning in
  changes
• Practice telling and retelling your story
• Step back. But not for long!!
• When you get stuck and are short on insight
• Reflect on how and why you are changing
• Change happens in bursts and starts
• Seize opportunities
• Windows of opportunities open up and close back
  again
• Take advantage of any natural windows (i.e. Tax
  law changes, process changes)

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Questions

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