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Here are my top picks this week to help you reach your career goals. The only thing that’s standing in the way between you and your outrageous success are your fears, doubts, and limiting thoughts. Enjoy this week’s picks: |
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www.jobnob.com – This website allows you to do several innovative things:
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My favorite strategy for turning around any interview situation is to directly ask the interviewer what objections they may have about you and then address them. It’s very impressive if you can counter the objections one by one. It leaves a lasting, favorable impression about you and alleviates unfounded concerns a hiring manager may have. I’ve had many clients become the top candidate by using this strategy. And when I was a recruiter, I loved it when a candidate asked me these questions at the end of an interview: Do you see any concerns that stand in the way of my succeeding in this position? I believe we are a good match. Do you have any reservations? |
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Do you have a creative talent you’d like for me to consider sharing with people across 20 countries? Do you have a story that would inspire others? Contact me at lori@Loridavila.com I know many of you would never consider contacting me about this! Take a bold action step and contact me anyway. Even if you share a story about your career dreams and they haven’t yet come true and you need a little help believing in yourself, let me help you manifest your dreams by simply sharing your aspirations. The goal here is to inspire others and get yourself into action by taking this first, small step. Here’s an inspiring story from Bill Sheldon who boldly stepped out to share his experiences and lessons with all of us:
Bill Sheldon, President |
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Attention all success-oriented women! I am creating a program just for you that includes support, connections and friendships in addition to identifying your goals and creating an action plan to get you there once and for all as you break through bad habits that prohibit you from achieving what you want. If you are interested in this type of program, email me at lori@loridavila.com and let me know what else you would like to see included as a topic in the program. I’ll be announcing it soon. It will be an e-program with the possibility of meeting for an in-person retreat. |
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FAVORITE ARTICLE (from StevePavlina.com Personal Development Insights™ Newsletter) |
Daily Practice (for Creating Value)Lori’s comment on this article: Creating and providing value for others is truly the #1 key to enormous success. Take this advice to heart and your dreams will come true, without a doubt! Oh, and I appreciate you – my readers, for your inspirational emails you send me as I learn many important lessons from you! If you want to enjoy the flow-back of financial abundance, then forget about money for a while. Money is an effect, not a cause. If you focus on trying to make money, you’re putting the cart before the horse. Instead, focus your attention on creating and delivering value. Make it part of your daily routine, so it becomes a habit. Don’t overcomplicate this. Creating value for someone really isn’t that difficult. If you don’t know where to begin, then start small. Send a few people nice emails telling them what you appreciate about them. Offer to babysit someone’s kids while they go out on a date. Start doing the sorts of things that people will thank you for. Make this a daily habit. Every day ask yourself, What can I do to create value for someone today? Then go do it, and make sure you deliver that value as soon as possible — ideally on the same day you create it. Don’t allow more than a few days to go by without creating and delivering some form of value. If you slack off, your creative flow will begin to atrophy, and it will feel unusually difficult to engage in creative work. But if you make this a daily practice, your creative energies will keep getting stronger, and it will feel very natural to keep the flow going. Do NOT get stuck in your head. Don’t get caught up daydreaming about all the different things you could do to create value. Don’t start writing out grand plans and creating spreadsheets. Those activities may seem intelligent, but they don’t actually create or deliver any real value. All they do is keep you stuck where you are. Make the commitment to create and deliver some form of value to people as a daily habit. One day you might write and post a new article for your blog. The next day you might simply offer some encouragement to a friend. And another day you might make a nice dinner for your significant other, followed by a relaxing massage. It’s perfectly fine to work on big projects — projects that may involve creating value that won’t be delivered for months or years to come. But those big projects are no substitute for the daily practice of creating and delivering value. If you stop delivering value for too long, the flow-back of abundance will soon dry up as well. This has happened to me several times when I got caught up working on big projects and failed to maintain my daily practice. Creating and delivering value is like physical exercise. You can work on a big project like planning and constructing your own home gym, and that may indeed benefit you in the long run, but it doesn’t mean you should slack off on daily exercise while the gym is being built. Maintain the habit of daily exercise even while your gym is still in the planning stage. Then you can upgrade your exercise routine when the new gym is ready. Similarly, even as you work on big projects from time to time, keep maintaining the daily habit of creating and delivering value. This will keep you in the flow of abundance. Because you’re always giving, you’ll always be receiving. Once you’ve got this habit going strong, then you can tackle some of those bigger projects that will deliver even more value. But no matter what, make sure the daily practice remains intact.
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To learn more about Lori, visit her website: www.loridavila.com |
After a lifetime of managing retails stores of myself and private owners, I decided to make myself happy and turn a love of creativity into a full time business. I never enjoyed running small stores with all the hours, employees, customers, inventory, etc. I was never happy with all of those daily headaches. I made great money, but I was only happy when I had a chance to be creative, like doing seasonal displays when the manager couldn’t get it done. During all those years of management I designed and displayed, part-time, for a company called Department 56, which is best known for their ceramic & porcelain buildings like Dickens’ Village, Snow Village and more. I did their in-store displays and created realistic detailed displays that proved to sell lots of product. As with many creative people, I am also known for my gift-wrapping the was “Going Green” long before it was “in”, by wrapping packages that could be opened and re-used without destroying the beautiful wrapping. 
So when I got “down-sized” in 2001, I decided to make myself happy and start a design company. I was working with Department 56 almost full-time as an independent store & display designer. I have also started: A web site, Design Christmas Products, Create Gift-Wrap concepts, Small Business consulting and Speak at Collector’s Clubs. I am much happier being creative everyday!!! I wish I had made a hobby a career when I was a young man. That old advice “find something you love and get paid for it” came to me very late in life. I’m now 65 and starting over…
