Transformation Technique and Tips

Transformation is the key to taking you from where you are at the first days on a new job, to where you dream to be. Here are time honored techniques and tips to practice a resiliency that allows us to recognize our best professional selves:
1. Release guilt over past performance, hurts, and pains.. focus on learning from those who have accomplished what you aspire to do– genuine interest will open many doors.
2. Anger over unfairness can result in indulgent ‘repeat performances’. Every try to ‘stop’ being late? Instead of the ‘being’ of late, embrace the ‘abundance’ of time when you are prepared.
3. Beliefs create outcomes.. Pessimism left to simmer, can start to infiltrate your belief system.
4. Fear can cause us downright counterproductive behavior.. Taking a heaping dose of negative feelings to a new job is like trying to hail a cab dressed as the Grim Reaper.
5. You have performed many things in life to this point… Something new does not need to be uncomfortable and that uncomfortable feeling of gloomy uselessness is optional.
6. Challenge yourself. Do a little each day to appreciate growth, and stretch yourself.
7. Recognize counter productive activities, and identify action steps to manage it.
8. What would perfect execution consist of? Take some time to envision your dream work.
9. “Feeling” or”Being” stuck have the same source, and persistence and consistent action removes it.
10. Consciously spend more time planning for and appreciating positive attributes that can cultivate momentum.

Tips to embracing our personal best in the workforce
1. Performance grows to the extent that we are willing to grow and change- understand where you are and embrace your capability to improve..
2. Freedom stems from knowing where we are, and where we aspire to do, recognizing we have everything we need, and we own the steps to get there.
3. Identify your self talk and brainstorm resources to embrace a different approach.
4. Optimism is the art of focus on strengths and opportunity, despite our weaknesses. Be willing and interested in learning from others. Every day, introduce yourself and get to know one new person, how they got here, and how they were successful.
5. Put first things, first— plan and manage progress on the highest payoff tasks that are most important being done, creates momentum.
6. Break the larger impossible tasks into bite size pieces or visual milestones along the path– we are never given a dream without the equal capacity to make it come true!

Dawn Mular
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Helping Friends Career Network