Careers Planning Kit

The careers planning kit is evolving for 2010!

I’ll still post here and I’d like to meet and help as many people as I can along the way. But for now, head to the new Facebook Fan Page “The Great Career Planner”.

You can search for it within Facebook or click here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Great-Career-Planner/296752763114?v=app_4949752878&ref=ts

There you’ll get all the help and resources you’ll need for careers planning.

You might also like to check out my personal blog on steering and advancing your career here: http://markmoore.posterous.com/

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Start 2010 by getting your career on the right track!

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Somewhere Out There is a Better Way to Earn a Living.

I Can Help You Find it….

(cost to you: $0.00 - just 3 minutes of your time)

From: Mark Moore 25 January 12:24

Director

Excelerated Performance International

Note:

Put your money away - there is nothing for sale here…..just give me 3 minutes of your time and you’ve earned what I’m offering…

Hi,

Are you working in (or about to head in to) the right career?

This is one of the most important questions you could ever ask yourself.  Because the answer will indicate how happy you are with your entire lifestyle.

If the answer is ‘no’, or ‘I’m not sure’, then your lifestyle will take the hit and it will likely get worse.  You need to do something about it.  You need to shut off all distractions, get some focus and read on, because you can change your situation much faster than you think. ..and for now, this solution is absolutely FREE to you!

My name is Mark Moore, and for a long time I struggled to enjoy earning a living.  I was a square peg trying to fit a round hole.  I knew I had higher potential, but worked in jobs that either didn’t challenge me, or where I felt undervalued, unrecognized for my efforts, didn’t relate to the people I worked with, or just found the work plain dull and unrewarding.  But…

…I kept battling on because I didn’t know what to do about it or how to change my situation for the better.  I continued banging my head against the wall, beginning to even make mistakes as my mind drifted, and nothing ever got better.  Until one day, I had enough. I decided that there MUST be another way out there to earn a living that would be perfect for me, my skills, strengths and my interests.  Outside of work, people respected and recognised that I had potential in certain areas.  I wanted the same thing, the same feelings, inside work.

Ever heard of the quote from Stephen Covey, author of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’; 

 
“It’s incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success, only to discover it’s leaning against the wrong wall.”

Is your ladder up against the right wall?  Because getting that right is the essential step 1 of your career.  Get it wrong, and you’ll know about it one day…maybe years down the line.  Get it right, and you’ll put yourself in the best position to climb that ladder, with energy, enjoying it and performing at your best.  And once you’re on the right ladder, you can look forward to some future products of mine on how to climb that ladder super-fast! (by taking up this free offer today, I’ll notify you in time about these).

So What Did I Do About it?

I realised that to earn a living, you just need to exchange value with enough people - to add value to their lives or their business.  And I realised that I was good at, and enjoyed doing certain things, and these things came easy to me, whereas many other people struggled with them.  All I had to really do was match up the value that I could fairly easily and enjoyably provide, with the same value that others wanted and would be prepared to pay for.

On realising this, I came across an idea that really got me moving;  I heard that there’s not a single job or task out there that someone somewhere in the world wouldn’t pay you to do.  That kind of opened up my options!  It was a useful starting point to my thought process.  I could practically do anything, and someone out there, if I could find them would pay me to do it, so long as I could get an effective solution to them.

These thoughts sent me on a new mission.  I made it my goal to identify what my ideal career would be, and then to get into it as fast as possible.  It’s now 6 years later, and I still run my own successful business which I love doing.  It didn’t take me long to identify my perfect career, but it DID take 3 things:

1. a DECISION to commit totally to the goal of finding and getting in to it
   
2. an investment of time, effort and a small amount of money to LEARN and EXPLORE how to do it - aka ’strategic careers planning!’
   
3. persistence in carrying out my plan

The 1st and 3rd points you can decide to do right now.  If you’re feeling enough pain from your current career situation, or you just don’t know what to do for a career, then you can mentally tick both those boxes right now.  That’s easy.

If you don’t decide to do those, I can’t help you, no one else can help you, and you won’t help yourself.  Things will likely drift and get worse for you.

Point 2 of the 3 may seem the least exciting for some of you, but I’ve made it easy for you!  And you don’t even have to worry about the money either, because you can get this for FREE from me…

…I spent a lot of my own time digging up resources and learning how to identify my ideal career. I read plenty of books on the subject, and on strategic planning in general, talked to the right people, did a lot of thinking, and once I’d identified my own, I helped others to do the same using what I had learned.

I’ve finally decided to share this knowledge with everyone who wants it, and guide them through the most important parts of the process I went through. I also want to update it for 2009, particularly for today’s economic climate, and provide you with other resources, free online tools and all sorts to help you find and get into your ideal career as fast as possible.

I’ll include:

1. how to identify various ideal career fields for you
2. how to narrow these down to your ultimate ideal (and realistic) way to earn a living
3. how to ensure that you’ll earn a sufficient living this way before committing to it
4. how to get ahead of the competition and secure employment or business in this role
5. how to pick out and use useful career tools online, rather than trawling through the many online career based gimmicks out there
6. how to get the most from careers consultants and advisers
7. smart strategies for planning for any desired outcome in your work or life
8. plenty more tips and answers to your own questions….(read on)

And, you’ll be pleased to hear that I’ll avoid ‘fluff’, hype and any ‘you can do it!’ approaches. I’ll just guide you through a sensible, solid and logical process that will make things much easier for you, and save you a lot of time, energy and frustration.

To Get Your Free E-Course/E-book Read On…

Note: this is free to the 1st 50 people who fully respond to the survey.

Why?

Because I need your responses to help me create a better quality product. Once I’ve completed the product, after sending it to you for FREE, I will charge for it for everyone else. I’m giving it to you, to say thanks very much for your help.

The link to the survey is below, and I’ll need all questions answered for you to qualify.  If you’re serious about making this work like I was, then the process will work for you, and this is your chance to help me refine the product.  Consider it like you’re working more closely and directly with me.

I should add though, that I’m only giving away 50 for free - the first 50 people who fill out all 9 questions (in as much detail as possible).

Remember, earning a living is adding value to other people, so please make your answers useful to me, and I will return the favour by making the e-course useful to you.

Why Learn How to Do This From Me?

3 reasons:

1. I’ve been there, done it, applied it and got it to work wonderfully for me. That beats the majority of careers advisers out there who, themselves are not in their ideal role.  It’s nearly always best to learn from people who have already achieved what you’re setting out to achieve.
2. I’m the Director of Excelerated Performance International, and help people to get better at their careers in order to enjoy more pay and rewards (for less effort, and more enjoyment!). The first essential stepping stone to achieving this is to get your ladder up against the right wall - get into your ideal career.
   I’m not some strange Internet nut marketer who just promotes products without any expertise in the area!  I work with big corporate clients, provide a high value honest service, and I believe in providing real value and help to people to earn a living. This is just a side project I’m working on.
3. I’ve got plenty of happy customers over the last 6 years - you can read plenty of testimonials and client comments by clicking here!

(You can see an example of another e-course of mine by clicking here. The new e-course will take a similar format.)

So, if you’re ready to take 3 minutes right now to respond to this survey, click on the link below,

Once I have created the e-course/ebook, I will send it straight out to you.

Note: the survey is hosted on another site, once you have submitted your responses you can just close the window. ANSWER IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE (remember, you’re not answering just for me, you’re answering in full FOR YOU!  You will create the quality of the solution I deliver by the quality and usefulness of your own responses.  You’re interacting with me and it’s your chance to get your questions answered.  Help me, and I’ll help you.)

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Join the majority!  Most people don’t know either, but you’re one step ahead of them - you’ve acknowledged the fact!  The others are still working away in the wrong career because they don’t know what the next step is to get out. You’re doing the next step right now. 

I didn’t know what I wanted to do for my first few years working, and I ended up feeling very miserable in a number of roles. I gradually felt worse and worse, stuck in a rut, out of my depth, not doing what I was naturally best at (a strong feeling of some sort of wasted talent!), and not feeling respect for myself and from others.

This got so bad that I hit a point when I knew I had to fix this!

I didn’t know what to do, so I simply made it my mission to find out.

That’s what you should do if you’re identifying with this.

It was actually fairly easy to do, was really enjoyable to do, very energising and motivating (of course it is - you’re finding out how to enjoy spending the rest of your life whilst also earning a living!).  And it wasn’t long until I found my perfect career, and then made a plan to get into it!

It’s now 6 years later.  I’m still working in the same career and because I ended up doing what I was driven to do, naturally good at, loved doing, it has not only felt like I’m not even ‘working’ but I’ve got naturally better and better at it.

When you’re in the club of working in the right career, it’s magical.  You get good at it faster, and people are drawn to your service more.  They want to employ or buy from people who are enthusiastic, energetic and KNOW about their work.  If they love their work, they care about it and they care about their customers and the solutions they provide.

EVERYTHING changes.

So here’s my immediate advice to you if you identify with this post.  SET A GOAL WITH A DEADLINE TO FIND OUT WHAT YOUR IDEAL CAREER IS.

Give yourself a month to 2 months to find it.  You should be able to find it much faster, but you MUST dig up the right resources that get you THINKING about this area and looking at what ‘presses your buttons’ in life.

An Excellent Starting Point

You’ve got to start somewhere, so take this recommendation from me - someone who has used it, applied it and got it working.  Buy this book from Amazon:

UK Amazon - The Pathfinder (click here)

USA Amazon - The Pathfinder (click here)

Then…grab a pen and a marker pen, read it thoroughly highlighting anything of interest and taking plenty of notes.  Grab more note paper and do the exercises. Spend the next 1 to 2 months with this in your mind (and you may of course like to check out other resources). And live and breathe the idea that you are on a mission to find your ideal career.

This book is a great starting point.  Good luck.

P.S.  Subscribe to this RSS feed too! Keep coming back, because I’ll gradually be revealing what I believe is the best strategy for finding your ideal career.  And note, I strongly believe that the answer is one only YOU will work out from lots of thought about yourself.  I believe that the probability of a careers advisor hitting the right answer for you is extremely low.  YES, once you’ve identified some career areas that you’d like to investigate further, then careers advisors may be useful. But please please don’t ask them what you should do.  They get asked it all the time, and what’s worrying is many of them try to answer.

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‘Careers Planning’ as it stands doesn’t sound all that much fun.

I’d say that’s because it contains 2 words that don’t tend to excite people - perhaps because both words evoke dull feelings to most people.

It’s therefore unfortunately quite a misleading term and it could be this that is partly to blame for turning people away from it.  In my opinion, the term should be translated to “creating your perfect lifestyle” or “designing your life”.  Because really, that’s what it is.

Now who out there would say that designing their life is boring??  Someone who’s not doing it right.  That’s who.

It’s what you make of it.  If you design an exciting or enjoyable life, then you’re going to love ‘careers planning‘!

The definition of career planning in BusinessDictionary.com is:

Structured exercise undertaken to identify one’s objectives, marketable skills, strengths, and weaknesses, etc., as a part of one’s career management.

Again, a bit boring that.  But it does highlight some information we may need to think about.

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Here’s what you should begin to do (note - this is not an exercise yet!  I’m just giving you an overview - don’t start answering these questions yet):

Start with the end in mind, and determine what lifestyle you’d like to live.  What would you like to spend your time doing, where, when, with whom, what value would you like to provide other people in exchange for money, satisfaction and respect from others?  What would you like to spend your time doing outside of ‘work’?  These are all important questions, and I don’t suggest you answer them just yet, because the real careers planning process goes much deeper than this.

For now, just please keep in mind that I came across the idea once that everyone, that’s you included, can do certain things (or learn to do them) that they really enjoy doing and that add value to other people out there.  Some of those people can’t so easily do what it is that you can do.  Think about it.  And therefore they are perhaps inclined to pay you money so that you can do it for them.

So, once you identify what it is that you can do that you really enjoy doing, and then work out how you can reach the people who would pay for it (whether they are a large organisation who needs your help, a smaller business, or individuals) and once you know how to effectively deliver that value to them (ie. get the job done!) you’ll find yourself earning a living much more easily and more enjoyably.

I don’t want to sound all corny but I can guarantee that when this happens, your life will improve significantly.

So that’s what this site is all about.

Bookmark it as it’s changing fast, and tell your friends about it.  And hang on tight because you won’t want to miss a trick.

I’ve been through all of this myself and I’m now working on a number or projects and businesses of my own, on my own terms, in my own time, answering to no one, and doing much of my work in cafes or even on the beach!  Follow the strategic process I’ll offer you over time and you’ll be living the lifestyle you want to.  That’s my goal.  And it should also be yours.

Look out for the next update (subscribe to the RSS feed).  And don’t forget to send this on to your friends and help pull them from the wrong career into the right one!

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