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Q Statements: Your Secret Weapon
• I created a new curriculum for self-esteem in secondary
schools.
• I invented a new type of kitchen sponge.
Let’s Get Specific
We’ll talk more about qualitative statements later in this chapter,
but for now we’ll stick with learning more about Q statements.
Now that you’ve read quite a few Q statements, let’s move on to
creating some of your own. It’s time to look back at the list of
your general skills in Chapter 2. Let’s say “organize” is at the top
of your list. An unspecific statement might look like this:

I am very organized.

A more specific statement would look like this:
I organized meetings for top international executives in New
York, Washington, D.C., and Hong Kong.

The quantified version of this statement would look like this:

I organized up to 40 meetings a week for over 15 international
executives in New York, Washington, D.C., and Hong Kong.

Q Statements for General Skills
Now that you have a Q statement, use the skills that you
unearthed in Chapter 2 to construct two or three Q statements of
your own for each general skill that you chose. Add additional
ones as you think of more of your quantified accomplishments.
Please note your ideas on the next few pages.

Skill 1 ______________________________________ (name of skill)

Q statement:
_________________________________________________________

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