The Big Freeze: 6 Ways To Turn It Into An Opportunity

January 7, 2010 CVs & Resumes, Career Change, Career Goals & Planning, Social Media, Starting A Business 3 Comments

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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Sell The Tickets Before You Create The Show

December 21, 2009 CVs & Resumes, Career Change, Handling Change No Comments

“If you want the energy to create the show, sell the tickets first.”

- Dan Sullivan  of The Strategic Coach

Want to get that CV or resume updated?

- Call a recruiter or contact and tell them they’ll have it within 24 hours. And then update it

Want to apply for a new internal role?

- Speak informally to the line manager and tell them they’ll have your application by the end of the week. Then work on the application.

Want to deliver a talk or workshop?

- Book the talk, agree the date, agree some broad objectives. Then create the content.

Want to write a guest article?

- Agree to write the article by a certain date. Then write the article afterwards.

Want to write an e-book or create an online product?

- Write the sales page and start selling it at a pre-launch price. Then create the product afterwards

Beating The Proscrastination

Whenever I find myself procrastinating, I go back and read Dan Sullivan’s quote and start ’selling the tickets first.’

It immediately creates an energy, focus and a ‘reason to get it done”  For me, the pain of NOT having a talk, article or product ready in time is much bigger than the pain of getting it done.

How about you….? Are you caught up in the world of ‘perfection paralysis’? If so, go out and ’sell some tickets’ – it will force you to do the thing that you’ve been putting off.

You’ll also avoid wasting time - after all, if you can’t sell the tickets – what’s the point of creating a show?