Want To Get Lucky?

These four principles can create good fortune in your life and career:

1. Maximize Chance Opportunities
Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing and acting upon chance opportunities. They do this is various ways, which include building and maintaining a strong network, adopting a relaxed attitude to life and being open to new experiences.

2. Listen to Your Lucky Hunches
Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to the intuition and gut feelings. They also take steps to actively boost their intuitive abilities – for example, by meditating and clearing their mind of other thoughts.

3. Expect Good Fortune
Lucky people are certain the future will be bright. Over time, that expectation becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because it helps lucky people persist in the face of failure and positively shapes their interactions with other people.

4. Turn bad Luck into Good
Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, they don’t dwell on the ill fortune, and they take control of the situation.

Preparation + Opportunity = Luck

Luck = Laboring Under Correct Knowledge

Good Hunting! Coach Mark

The Golden Rule of Networking

The Golden Rule of networking is simply this...

“People will do business with and network with and refer people in their network to those people they know, like and trust.” That's it! That is what it's all about, and your main goal is to develop new relationships with people on an everyday basis and develop those relationships to a point that those people feel so good about you, they know you. They like you. They trust you and they want to see you succeed and find what you are looking for, whether it’s a career networking contact or a business connection. They want to help you find new business through introductions to new people you don’t know….yet. They want to hopefully be a part of your network or business - if that is possible, but they definitely want to be a part of your life, which means they will go out of their way to help you succeed through referrals….because they like you and trust you and they believe that "if" they ever need help from you, they can count on you to return the favor.

Warning! Don’t ever be on the take without giving back because you will break the chain and end the networking relationship.

Read more about networking

Coach Mark

Distributor of Hope.......

Believe it....You Are Talent For Hire!

Don't let the news of company layoffs confuse you. The U.S. economy has entered another candidate driven market that will last for a long time. For the next 10 to 15 years most companies will continue having a very difficult time attracting qualified people. This is because we have built the current U.S. economy around the needs of a large group of people, (baby boomers) behind them are a lot fewer people in the workforce (baby busters, gen Xers and Yers) so, there are currently more jobs than people to fill them. As boomers start to retire from their jobs - there simply won't be enough people to take their place. The smart companies already know this and have begun building new teams for tomorrow's increased demand.

Retaining Top Talent

Knowing how to retain top employees in this challenging environment can be a real competitive advantage. Progressive companies are beginning to foster a sense of community and family, so people feel that they're working for a cause as well as a company. Good companies trust their employees to balance the demands of work and life; and give them the opportunity and the flexibility to do so. They are allowing all employees, no matter how junior, decision-making authority.

Forward thinking companies are identifying the best people in the organization, and then invest heavily in training and mentoring them. They realize how important it is to get it right from the start, by investing more in the hiring process, and hiring key level positions very selectively. Successful executive search firms are partnering with highly successful companies who want a competitive recruiting edge to enable them to attract equally successful professionals in order to stay on top.

What to do...What to do....?

Caution: If you don't know what you want - that's what you will get - Nothing! When you are on the platform looking for the right train to board - before making your choice, you should carefully study the industry trends and growing needs of people -- you and me as consumers. Determine what you want and create a "Job Search Marketing Plan" (JSMP) to find it.

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." Abraham Lincoln

Good Hunting! Coach Mark

What's your beef?

How do you really feel about your job!

It could be a mistake not to look at your career options.
You need to ask yourself some questions……

Are you motivated and challenged by your company?

Are you still using your strengths and talents?

Do you feel good about the company you work for?

Are you recognized for your contributions?

What are you moving toward that will build on your knowledge, experience, and career?

How realistic are the chances of attaining your career goals at your current employer? How long will it take?

What do want that you don’t have now? Salary is important, but you’ll need a better reason to get up in the morning!

Is your salary stagnating? Are your raises on a downward trend percentage-wise?

Have you stopped learning?

Are you getting stale?

Do you no longer get the chance to increase your skills and broaden your experience?

Has your status slipped?

Are exchanges with your boss becoming increasingly one-sided?

Do you feel as if you have less freedom to act than in the past?

Is your company faltering? Has it lost market share or taken a major hit on its stock price?

Has it been sharply criticized by Wall Street, the press, or its own employees?

Are big changes on the horizon?

Has your company merged with another recently?

Any kind of major organizational restructuring under way?

Have new high-level executives come in from the outside?

Are you out of the loop? Have you stopped hearing gossip?

Do you feel you’re the last to know about key decisions?

Do you dread going to work?

Contrary to popular belief....job-change is not primarily about money or stock options. Besides personality conflict with the boss, the main reason why people leave their jobs is to pursue personal development -- the chance to learn something new. If you truly want to be more vaulable to any company, you've got to make sure that you are learning, growing, and changing and improving your skills and compentencies.

Keep the main thing - THE MAIN THING!

Coach Mark

Danger - Will Robinson!

Watch Out for Potential Career Negatives

Check all that apply and take action now....

____ You don’t have enough work experience.

____ Your experience is limited to one industry.

____ Your experience is limited to one company.

____ You’ve had too many jobs.

____ You’ve made lateral job shifts.

____ Your present earnings are low.

____ You are presently unemployed.

____ Your work history has many gaps.

____ You were terminated from previous job(s).

____ You have insufficient formal education.

____ Your education is unrelated.

____ Your academic record was mediocre.

____ You need more experience in large/small firms.

____ You’ve made slow financial progress.

____ You don’t have many major accomplishments.

____ Your career has peaked out.

____ You haven’t been frequently promoted.

____ You’re too much of a specialist.

____ You’re too much of a generalist.

____ You need more line experience.

____ You need more staff experience.

____ You need more management experience.

There are a few schools of thought here that need your attention and are best communicated through a couple of anonymous quotes:

“Success comes from good judgment. Good judgment
comes from a bad experience. Good experience comes from bad judgment.” Think about it!

“Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.” The ball is in your court!

Coach Mark