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2 COACH YOURSELF TO A NEW CAREER

other point in the history of humanity, you now have the ability
to design and create work that is perfectly suited to your natural
talents, your personality, your inherent abilities, and your inter-
ests and passions. Whether that pays well is another question,
but we’ll get to that! The perfect combination is to find out your
unique talents and abilities, what your passions and interests are,
and how to combine those in a career that provides the money
you need.
Rather than work hard and struggle to find the career you
desire, I’d recommend a different, somewhat counterintuitive
approach—attract the perfect job to you. There are two primary
ways to get what we want in life: (1) set a goal, create a strategy
and action plan, and go for it; or (2) attract it to you effortlessly.
In this current economic climate, jobs are scarce—this is true.
Nevertheless, if you complete the simple exercises in this book,
you’ll dramatically increase your chances of finding or creating
the perfect job for you. In this book, I’ll cover the essential ele-
ments that make up an ideal career so that you can crystallize
your ideal job description. Knowing exactly what you want makes
it much easier to find the right opportunity. Then I’ll give you
some practical ways to transition into the career or business you
really want.
There a few basic questions you will need to answer in order to
identify and find the ideal career:

1. What do I need? (personally and emotionally)
2. What do I want? (dreams, goals, desires, ideal life/career)
3. What am I good at? (skills, natural abilities and talents, personal
style)
4. What do I enjoy? (passions, interests, values)
5. Where am I in my life? What’s right for me now? (just out of school,
midlife career change, retiring, reentering the workplace)
6. What people do I know? (contacts, friends, network, connections)
7. How do I make the transition? (reserves of time and money,
networking and making contacts, making the right impression, etc.)