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Are you looking to:

- Shift careers?

- Start a business?

- Take a career break and do some travelling?

- Re-train?

- Take up some volunteering?

If so, come along to the One Life Live event at Earls Court next month. Featuring various free seminars and workshops, it’s the biggest  event in the UK for individuals looking to make major changes in their life.

Like last year, I’ll be at the event  alongside some of the UK’s leading career experts to offer free career advice to visitors at the Career Clinics stand.

I’ll be running a Career Clinic:

Thursday 18th: 1.00-5.00pm

Friday 19th: 2.00-6.00pm

Saturday 20th: 2.00-6.00pm

So if you decide to come along, please come and say hello!

For all the details on how you can book your free tickets click here

This year, the One Life Live event takes part alongside the Vitality Show – the UKs largest health, fitness, beauty well being show.

So come along and give both your health and your career a boost!

FREE TELESEMINAR

“Rethink, Reposition and Thrive In 2010″

Saturday 6th February 2010

3pm UK Time

4pm Central Europe, 10am Eastern Standard Time

Learn more and book your spot now

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During this 75 minute call, you’ll discover:

• 3 big shifts we’re beginning to see within the workplace during 2010 which will accelerate by the end of this year and into 2011

• Key predictions I’m making for the employment market in 2010

• 3 biggest challenges every employee and freelancer will have to adapt to this year

• One big mindset shift you must make in order to thrive in the coming year

• The 5 key steps you will need to take to reposition yourself and ensure you’re one of the winners who thrive in 2010. Which means you’ll learn:

• How to reinvent yourself without having to change job or careers

• The 2 keys to standing out in what is still a very challenging job market

• 3 ways to increase your income this year (even if salary budgets are capped)

• The key to finding meaningful work (without taking a pay cut and making a huge change)

• The 2 time-tested principles you must follow in order to achieve that elusive work-life balance you’re searching for

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Whether you’re working in a permanent role, consulting, freelancing or looking for a new job or career – this is a must-attend free teleseminar. I’ll demystify all the changes going on this year and ensure you thrive in 2010.

Don’t miss it!

Click here to learn more and reserve your space on the complimentary call.

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
- Howard Thurman

Last week I attended the London School of Economic Alternative Investment Conference featuring an impressive line up of speakers from the world of Hedge Funds and Private Equity. With students flying in from 75 countries, it was the biggest student conference of its kind in the world.

Whilst listening to a panel discussion about the future of Private Equity Finance, one of the undergraduates from audience asked a question about career prospects within the industry. Interestingly, the overwhelming feedback from the 5 highly successful people on the panel was:

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FREE TELESEMINAR

“Rethink, Reposition and Thrive In 2010″

Saturday 6th February 2010

3pm UK Time

4pm Central Europe, 10am Eastern Standard Time

Learn more and book your spot now

During this 75 minute call, you’ll discover:

* 3 big shifts we’re beginning to see within the workplace during 2010 which will accelerate by the end of this year and into 2011

* Key predictions I’m making for the employment market in 2010

* 3 biggest challenges every employee and freelancer will have to adapt to this year

* One big mindset shift you must make in order to thrive in the coming year

* The 5 key steps you will need to take to reposition yourself and ensure you’re one of the winners who thrive in 2010. Which means you’ll learn:

* How to reinvent yourself without having to change job or careers

* The 2 keys to standing out in what is still a very challenging job market

* 3 ways to increase your income this year (even if salary budgets are capped)

* The key to finding meaningful work (without taking a pay cut and making a huge change)

* The 2 time-tested principles you must follow in order to achieve that elusive work-life balance you’re searching for

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Whether you’re working in a permanent role, consulting, freelancing or looking for a new job or career – this is a must-attend free teleseminar. I’ll demystify all the changes going on this year and ensure you thrive in 2010.

Don’t miss it!

Click here to learn more and reserve your space on the complimentary call.

Have you ever been go-carting?

Or maybe driven on a real racing track?

I’m not much of a race driver myself, but there are two rules I do remember learning when I first went go-carting:

1. As you approach a sharp bend – slow down

It’s hardly rocket science, but very true. Slow down, pay close attention to what’s happening around you and you’ll be safe and secure.

2. As you come out of the bend – step on the gas and push on quickly

If you don’t, you’ll get left behind. And once you’re chasing the leading pack, it becomes incredibly difficult to catch up without taking crazy risks.

We’re now at that same stage of the recovery cycle that resembles turning the corner on the bend of a race track. In fact, later today we’ll receive official confirmation that the UK economy has turned the corner and finally come out of recession.

So if you’re running a business, now is the time to be more visible, more aggressive in marketing your offering and work harder at building your brand so as to differentiate your business.

If not, you’ll get left behind as your competitors step up a gear.

If you’re managing your career, the same rules apply.  You need to be more visible, more aggressive in marketing yourself and work harder at building your personal brand so that you can stand out from the crowd.

If not,  you’ll be left behind.

And just like that race track, once you’re left trailing your competitors, it’s so much harder to catch up. So put your foot on the gas NOW and start building some momentum before everyone else gets ahead of you.

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By the way, if you need some advice on “how to step on the gas”, you may be interested in my upcoming teleseminar: “Rethink, Reposition and Thrive In 2010.” It’s completely FREE so click here to learn more and reserve your spot on the call.

“Every adversity carries within it the seed of equal or greater benefit”

-  Napoleon Hill

In 2005, when I ran a half marathon for the first time, I tore my calf 8 weeks before the race and was advised to pull out of it. But I kept telling myself that it was a hurdle to overcome and not a brick wall. So I found an amazing physiotherapist who I visited twice a week, radically changed my diet and started visualising daily so that I was mentally prepared to complete the race.

And it worked.

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Fitness Headlines

“Become A Perfect Size 10″

“Create A Dream Six Pack in 6 days”

“Lose 10 pounds in 10 Days”

Career Headlines

“Find Your Ideal Career”

“Find The Perfect Job”

“Find Your Dream Career”

What Have the Two Sets of Headlines Got in Common?

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I’ve recently returned from spending a week in Colombia (South America) for a friend’s wedding. It was, of course, a lovely sunny place to spend the new year whilst the UK was experiencing the worst winter weather for 30 years.

Before returning to ice-cold London last weekend, I spent an afternoon volunteering with an amazing NGO in Colombia’s third city – Cali. Forming Futures (Fundación Formación DeFuturos) is a charitable foundation which helps 16 – 20 year olds make the transition from state-funded foster homes to becoming successful, independent adults.

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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

-  Confucius

If you’re looking to achieve something big in 2010 or to make a change this year, don’t do too much planning and thinking.

When it comes to career management, planning is over rated. So is thinking. Over-planning and over-thinking usually overwhealms you and creates a disease called ‘Perfection Paralysis.’ Your desire to have things perfectly planned out paralyses you into taking no action and so effectively ensures you make no changes whatsoever.

A better strategy is to be clear about where you are heading and then simply taking the first step as below:

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The UK, Europe, parts of Asia and the US are this week in the grip of arctic conditions.

Which means that some of you will struggle to get into work this week, whilst many job seekers will find it difficult to make contact with recruiters and contacts who themselves have struggled to make it into the office.

So you have 2 choices:

a) You can sit around complaining about the weather and travel problems,

or

b) You can create your own weather by turning the big freeze into an opportunity by investing any additional time you have on doing those activities which you never have time for and so give your career a kick start at the beginning of the year.

Here are 6 suggestions on how to turn the freezing lemons into ice cold lemonade this week:

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