Your Career
Take Control of Your Career Path
Are you angling for a promotion?
Would you love to start your own business?
Have you been thinking about something else, but not sure what it is?
Here in the ‘Your Career’ section of Increasing Velocity, you will find links, advice, and suggested resources to help you crystallize your ideas, get ahead in your career and make smart decisions about what is best FOR YOU.
Deciding What You’d Like To Do
What Color is Your Parachute?: The quintessential career guide, this book has been on the bestseller list for many years. This 2008 version has been updated and added to, for the most comprehensive guide yet.
Strengths Finder 2.0: Give yourself the opportunity to do what you do best by discovering your natural talents.
Career Assessment Tool: Use this career planning, self-assessment tool to find the work you are best suited for.
Success in Your Chosen Field
Depending on your chosen industry, you may find different skill sets are important to your success. These skills may include being a valuable member of a team or organization, business etiquette and dressing for success, sales skills, presentation and demonstration skills, negotiating, diplomacy and image, and many others.
Every little thing you can do to increase your skills, your self-image and the image you present to others will enhance your career and help you achieve your objectives. Remember that even people at the top of their games rely on coaches and mentors to help them improve and perfect their craft; always be open to learning and changing, and be ready for opportuities when they come your way!
Premium Career Guides: This site offers five different guides along with other resources to empower you to take control of your career and create the work life YOU want for yourself.
How to Win Friends & Influence People: This ‘oldie-but-goodie’ by Dale Carnegie has become a success classic for good reason - the techniques he espouses for getting along with and impressing those around you really work. We can all use improvements in our people skills, and this is a great place to start.
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: By executive coach Michael Goldsmith - deals with breaking through your personal barriers to success by honestly looking at habits and behaviors which hold people back.
Starting and Owning Your Own Business/es
There are many reasons to own your own business; from puruing your passion, to wanting to spend more time at home and have flexibility with your time, to providing a service or product which produces profits for you. Whether your motivation is purely financial or instead is based on frustration with a current job, yearning for a life with more freedom or an idea for a product, be careful to do your research. Many, many people start businesses with stars in their eyes, and their visions soon turn to nightmares of unpadi bills and obligations which are difficult to fulfill.
Live Rich: Everything You Need to Know to Be Your Own Boss: By Stephen Pollan with Mark Levine. Excellent resource for anyone who is not sure if they are walking the right career path. Pollan, a New York-based lawyer and career/financial advisor, tailors his advice for his individual clients, and we are priveleged to enjoy real-life stories and advice in this book, as well as his best-seller Die Broke. Both books are superb resources for getting one’s priorities in line with one’s goals.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It - a must-read if you are considering starting your own business. Discover common myths and mistakes, and how to avoid falling prey to them. Also an excellent primer for setting up your business in a way which will lead to financial freedom - by providing you with future income whether you choose to work your business or not.
Own Your Own Corporation: This book from the Rich Dad’s Advisor Series demonstrates that incorporating is not just for the realm of ‘big businesses.’ Smart financial planning includes knowing how to save money by taking advantage of tax and corporate laws. There is much intelligent advice here, which will pay for itself many times over if followed.
Making The Leap to Working From Home
Will Work From Home: Earn the CASH–Without the Commute. This book offers advice on working from home, which is, of course, a massively growing trend. Also try The Work at Home Success Bible.
The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris: Now-famous book packed with down-to-earth advice. Definitely worth a read.
Data Entry Made Easy: This and the Work at Home Manifesto are both sites which promise help for those who want to work from home. While I have not tried these personally, I want to be sure and include as many resources her eas possible. If you have any feedback on these programs, please do not hesitate to contact me. For those interested in picking up projects and contacts in the freelance industry, I can personally recommend GoFreelance.com.
Passive Income
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money, That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! I can’t agree more…this is definitely a must-read for anyone searching for financial independence, and passive income is a huge part of that picture. Also try Rich Dad Success Stories for inspiring examples of people who have taken action based on the Rich Dad information and changed their financial lives for the better.
Life/Work Balance
There are as many definitions of balance as there are people searching for it. Below are a couple of super blogs which deal with this subject, and you will also find a variety of wonderful information from the bloggers on the Personal Development List.
P.S. Don’t forget to visit the Follow Your Path blog, dedicated to helping you define and follow your own path.
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