Getting things done is usually more important than getting them perfect.
This article uses the example of a newspaper editor that applies to job search.
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Here are your rules if you have the guts to declare war on your job search. They are not for cowards. This is how a real proactive job search can be done. Check it out here. It is on LinkedIn. If you aren’t on LinkedIn yet, then link to me bryan @ dilts.us My telephone weighs 470 kilograms if I do not pick it up and make a call out by 8:30 in the morning. I get nervous. I can’t pick it up. I make my living calling people and sometimes I just can’t do it. So I use a rubber band to help pick it up. I put [...] Thinking of yourself passively — as being employed and, therefore, subject to the dictates of someone else — can be fatal to your long-term success. In reality, you’re the president of your own personal-services corporation. You’re completely in charge of production, quality control, training and development, marketing, finance, and promotion. Seeing yourself as self-employed forces you [...] As one of my Mastermind members said at our last meeting, “If I could get half as much done as you, I’d be happy.” Well, it’s not that hard. It starts with doing the right things, right now. Too many people do the wrong things all day. Doing the right things starts by knowing what the [...] An ex-NFL football player told me how he got to the big league. He chose a player he wanted to be just like. Then he learned to hold his hands just like him. He placed his feet just like his hero. He ran like his hero. He exercised like his hero. He did everything he [...] Assignments at work may help your career, mean little or be suicidal. Here is how another ‘fighter ace” made his career decisions. Erich Hartmann shot down 352 planes. He was lucky. He was on the Soviet front in WWII. The Soviet MIGs and Yaks were no match for his plane. “Paule” Rossman taught him how to [...] IQ experts say that Thomas Jefferson was the smartest man ever born. I don’t doubt he was brilliant. He harnessed his brilliance to the ox of hard work. Without his hard work, that incredible brain would have been wasted. I am sure there have been many others born who were smarter than Jefferson, no matter what [...] The first winter in Plymouth Colony killed a third of the Pilgrims. During that winter one of my ancestors was caught eating the seed corn. He knew the whole colony would fail if the seed corn disappeared, but he talked himself into eating it anyway. I’m glad he was caught. I’m glad he learned. Every job [...] Need a job? Recruiters see every possible mistake, and some unusually successful ploys. Here are 50 job hunting tips from good recruiters. |
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