Today Is Here

Today is here.

Today things can get done.

Today you get to make a difference.

Yesterday is gone, and you cannot change it.

And tomorrow stands one day beyond your grasp.

Today is the day, and that is why Reveille is so important.

Are you going to get up and do something good for yourself?

Or will you sleep it away?

Today is here.

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Do You Believe

Do you Believe?

Do you Believe in You?

Do you Believe in your Ideas?

Do you Believe in Ideas that soar?

Do you Believe that the right Idea will make you fly?

Do you Believe in soaring on the wings of a Great Idea?

Do you Believe?

Share What You Know

If you want to go far, help others along the way. Encourage those you meet and work with to do their best in whatever they do. 

Be kind and generous.  Please share what you know with others and take the time to let them teach you.  We do this as children and only lose the ability as we enter the industrial classroom and become competitive.

To grow, you have to give. Share knowledge between yourself and others. Hopefully, it allows all to develop a better understanding and process.

I would love to learn anything you would like to teach me.

What would you like to know?

Change Is Interesting

On the one hand, change drives us forward. Change helps us to discover new ways and allows us to do more things better. Change can be a great ally.

On the other hand, change can also be a time of sadness. We lose what we have come to know and use. Change is a point of momentary confusion towards what is next.

Do not fear change. Look at change as an opportunity to improve.

What has changed for you lately? 

Action

We often know what we need to do. We don’t seem to get it done. I don’t think that it’s genuinely laziness that gets in our way. As we find ourselves more and more overwhelmed, getting anything done in a timely fashion gets harder. Ergo I am working on a new plan to find a better way.

I shall schedule a time to sit down and go through all correspondence and either get it done on the spot or schedule an appropriate time to complete the task at an early date. 

Rather than when it is due, I am looking at when I can complete and send the work to wherever it goes next. Will I have to bump planned actions from time to time?  Yes, yet I will know when I do so, Why I did it, and when I complete it. 

How do you handle the snarling lion in your inbox that eats up all your time?

Take Time

In our lives, it is vital to take care of the things that matter. Friendship and fellowship are genuinely part of those critical things.

If you do not take proper care with what truly matters, you will turn around one day to find out that it has faded away.

Be sure to take time, time to say hello, open an email, and find kindness from someone who means something to you.

In our overrun life, setting aside some time to read and respond is a gift we share. For without this shared gift, we are only one.

Be A Cheerleader

If you want to go far, help others along the way. Encourage those you meet and work with to do their best in whatever they do. 

Be kind and generous.  Teach others what you know and take time to let them teach you.  In many cases, this trade of wealth will increase both your knowledge bases.

To grow, you have to give. Plants give oxygen. Humans share knowledge which hopefully allows us to develop better understanding and processes.

I would love to learn anything you would like to teach me.

What would you like to know?

How Do You Know

The answer is simple with many avenues.

You ask someone, or they tell you.  Then to make sure, you get online and check it out.  Trust, but verify.

What if I see something in a book?  Copy it down, then you get online and check it out.  Know that the person you read knew what they said.

If I went to a lecture and the speaker to sell something talked of an interesting point? Try to get at least three sources that verify the facts.

Is this starting to look redundant?

Real Simple.  Before you go into an interview of any kind and say something, be sure to check it out so that you know.

What Am I Worth

It’s a great question and one that’s prevalent in finding new jobs. The overall answer is two words.  ‘It depends.’

An employer’s offer depends on how much talent a person has. Also, how many people with that amount of skill are in the local area. And how well the new candidate will fit with the rest of the team. For the employer, it boils down to what the new person will be able to do for the company as they grow within it.

 There are many other considerations, such as how well the new individual gets along with the core team. Also, what second and third skillsets the person has and are valuable to the company.

Value to the individual applying should include the pay and the power of the benefits they will receive and how working with the company may help their stature within their professional community.

The topic is too large for one blog. So what I will do is come back regularly with ideas and tips on how to verify the local rate for someone with a particular set of skills. Also, to show how higher education can both help you and hurt you in negotiations. And how to know what an employer does not want to tell you and how you can find out.

Any Questions

Usually, I would write a story about me in a 250-word setting, with an interesting question at the end. However, today is a little different.

I want to answer your questions, to help you get a job.  I am a person with an advanced degree in adult education who spent several years working to help others find jobs. I am now a life coach working with people around the world.

If you have a question, you are not alone.  If you send me your question, I will be glad to post it and the answer on LinkedIn (no names mentioned.) This way, readers get to learn something new each day.

The offer is genuine.  If you ask in the comments of anything I write, I will post real answers that hopefully help.  Please remember, I am a life coach who works with people over 50 who feel overlooked for qualified jobs.  Anyone at any age can ask a question.

What question can I answer for you?