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Love In Action
Every relationship has its cracks; it's how we fill them that counts. How do you and your partner mend the gaps? Share your tips below!
Totally feeling this! A beautiful reminder that every effort counts in building lasting bonds.
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Not me tearing up over a sketch. This hits different. #LoveInAction
💔 Love isn’t just emotion—it’s physics. What if every heartbreak was written in quantum code? What if every betrayal left behind invisible energy threads, still binding us to the past?
🔬 Welcome to The Strayed & The Betrayed—where we decode the quantum science behind love, loss, and healing.
⚛️ Entangled love. Broken bonds. Cosmic transformation. ✨ Healing isn’t just emotional—it’s quantum.
💔 Some connections never truly break—they just exist in a different dimension.
Quantum entanglement explains why we still feel tied to people long after they’re gone. Just like energy, love doesn’t vanish—it shifts, transforms, and lingers in ways we can’t always see.
🔬 Science meets heartbreak. ⚛️ Energy meets healing. ✨ Transformation begins when you understand the invisible forces that still connect us.
📌 Reblog if you believe that healing is written in the stars.
If my love life were a science experiment, I’d like a refund on this hypothesis...
🔬 EXPERIMENT RESULTS ARE IN: Love is NOT scientifically sound.
🚨 STATUS UPDATE: FAILED 💔 Test Subject: EX – Compatibility Analysis Inconclusive. ☣️ High Levels of Toxicity Detected. 🔄 Refund Request Denied by the Universe.
📌 Reblog if you’ve also been part of a failed love experiment. 😂
"Sarah noticed her partner, Jake, started acting differently. He laughed at texts but never shared who they were from. Late-night work calls became a routine, and his attention drifted. Her gut told her something was wrong. One night, she glanced at his unlocked screen—messages filled with ‘I miss you’ and ‘last night was amazing.’ Her heart sank. What would you do in her shoes?"
🚩 “Signs of Cheating You Might Be Ignoring” 🚩 📱 Always hiding their phone? ⏰ Suddenly "working late" all the time? 😶 Emotionally distant or defensive? 🤔 New habits, secretive behavior, or gut feelings?
If something feels off, don’t ignore it. Trust your instincts. Would you confront them? Drop a 💔 if you’ve been there.
You Have More Skills Than You Think
If we ever had coffee and I asked you what your skills are, after quoting Liam Neeson from the movie Taken, you’d probably tell me one of two things: 1. I don’t know what my skills are. 2. I don’t have (m)any. The first answer might be born from the simple fact that you haven’t thought about that question ever. I once had a job that required us to do self-evaluations of our own skills. This exercise felt like an invitation to invent new ways you were awesome. We were motivated to do this because we all knew our raises were dependent on it but we still had a hard time coming up with a list of skills. My coworkers and I would scratch our heads and write things like “numbers.” My skills are numbers. That’s not a skill, that’s The Count from Sesame Street’s passion. That’s a noun. The second answer, the belief that you don’t have many, is probably because you’re human. We humans have a difficult job seeing our own skills as skills. Roy H. Williams, author and marketing expert, says, “It’s hard to read the label when you’re inside the bottle.”1 We don’t consider them skills but rather just things we do.
So during this fictional coffee, the first thing I would do is to try to help you figure out what skills you already have. I’d even pull out a stack of note cards, which would probably make you recoil a little. Because once again, we’re about to cross the threshold between dreaming and doing. Dreaming is fun. Future results are enjoyable to talk about. Present efforts are not. But I’d push through all the hope you’ve stored in someday and try my best to get you to focus on the skills portion of your CSA today.
We tend to focus on “how to get more skills” first, which is understandable. “Get more” conversations invite you to dream. Assessing what you already have forces you to be honest. One of those is clearly more fun.
But this is a critical point in this section. Because now we’re going to do some work. The goal is to create a list of our current skills so that we know what we have to work with, what might be missing and what we want to improve. Don’t worry—we won’t be using note cards in the hustle or character sections—but when it comes to skills we need a method for figuring out where we are in order to head toward where we want to be.
We’re going to build on the approach we started with in relationships. In that section, there was only one step: Write the name of someone you know who can help with your Do Over. Skills take a little more detail, but I assure you this is just as simple as the first exercise you already crushed. ■ What We’re About to Do There are only two steps to this exercise: 1. Write down ideas. 2. Look for patterns. For my high-detail friends this is like some sort of dream come true. You probably already have a note-card drawer sorted by color and size. For my low-detail friends, you are among company. I feel your lack of organization but I assure you that your career is worth it. ■ Step 1: Write Down Ideas I have a stack of cards on my desk. One of them just says, “Naps.” I have no idea what that means now. It’s possible that at one point I was creating a list of things that are awesome or perhaps brainstorming activities Winnie the Pooh likes. Hard to say, but here’s what’s important: It doesn’t matter.
I don’t want your cards to be perfect. I just want you to write. I want you to work your way into the freedom to write down any skills that you like. I say work your way into it because like most people, you’ve been taught to be safe. Somewhere on the road to adulthood we decided that dreams were dumb. We stopped wanting to be firemen and astronauts and settled for stuck and predictable. We accepted the lie that Monday must be boring.
Step 1 is all about quantity. One skill per card, as many cards as you can come up with. This is not the time to edit. For now, we’re going for volume. Don’t ask yourself “Is this dumb?” It might be, and that’s OK. All I want you to do is write one skill you currently have per card. Don’t try to cram multiple ideas onto a single card.
To get started, here are some questions you can answer about your skills: 1. What are you good at? Screw humility. This is no time to be humble. This is the hero’s slow walk from an explosion moment. What’s something you’re good, dare I say, amazing at? Do you create great marketing proposals? Can no one balance a budget like you can? I’m not talking about just in your current job either. Go way back. If you were a fantastic paperboy, write down “On-time delivery.” With relationships, we surfaced the casual ones because there’s no telling where they might lead. Same with skills. Surface them all! 2. What comes naturally? This question will generate some “Oh, this?” skills, those things you don’t even think about because they come so naturally to you. You think everyone can do what you do, but we can’t. The elaborate dinner parties you throw so easily, like Sarah and her Neighbor’s Table, are indicative that you’re amazing at event planning and connecting with others. That thing that comes naturally to you is difficult for the rest of the population. Just because it’s easy doesn’t mean it’s not a skill. 3. What do people pay me to do? If you’ve ever had a single job, this question is going to generate at least one note card. What were your responsibilities at your favorite job? Write them down, one card per skill. For instance, if you were in charge of quality assurance for software launches, write down, “quality assurance.” Increase the cards this question generates by asking, “What skill would people pay me to do?” (Hint: The answer is “Almost anything.”) 4. What are you afraid of? Bears, obviously, but besides these furred denizens of death there are plenty of important skills hidden inside our fears. The reason is that great passions usually come with great fears. You’ve known you were supposed to do something for years, but have been avoiding it because you’re afraid of it. Write that down. For example, I would list “writing” as one of my fears. Isn’t that stupid to be afraid to do the thing I feel most called to do? It is, but no one ever accused fear of being smart. This one might feel counterintuitive because we’re often told to answer the question “What do I love doing?” when it comes to figuring out our dreams and skills. I think that’s an important question and one you could certainly ask with this exercise, but I’ve also learned we can be afraid of the things that really matter to us. Be honest with yourself. Do you really dread public speaking or are you afraid of it because you’re worried you might not be good at it and it’s something you secretly want to do? 5. If you wrote an eBook, what would the topic be? Times are tough. Bills are due. Ma and Pa are about to lose the beet farm. The only way to save the situation is to write a twenty-page eBook that teaches eager shoppers to do something you’re good at. Are you renowned for your ability to pack ten days of clothes into a small carry-on for business trips? Have people marveled in the past at your skills in creating marketing strategies for book launches? Have you figured out a unique way to fit a fully functional wood shop in your garage but always thought of it as a silly hobby? If you had to create an eBook today, what would the topic be? If you had to write a series of three, what would be in your trilogy? ■ Step 2: Look for Patterns Now that you’ve got a few skills labeled you’ll start to notice something: Some of the ideas are related. They might not say the same thing, but they are at least cousins in the family tree of creativity. As you start to see some that are similar, begin grouping them together. Cluster them in a way that you can still see the nugget of each idea at a glance. If you create a vertical stack that covers up all the ideas except the one on top, you won’t be able to see them all at once and might miss something important. Group them in the way that works best for you. Maybe you want to group yours by “Skills I love doing,” “Skills I get paid the most for,” “Skills I want to improve” or “Skills I haven’t used in a long time.”
Don’t worry if you don’t come right out of the gate with some patterns. If this is your first go-round with an activity like this, you shouldn’t be great at it yet. Try tweaking this exercise to make it work the best possible way for you.
Please don’t get stuck using a tool that is designed to help you get unstuck. This shouldn’t be a perfect process. In fact, I hope it’s not. You should only spend a few minutes when you initially do this, then walk away. Building a Career Savings Account is a lifelong process; you’ve got time. Put your cards in a spot where you will see them during your average day. I want you to bump into them as you walk to the kitchen or garage. Some (most) ideas are elusive. They don’t walk into our heads and announce themselves; we have to capture them. And often they won’t come out until they’re positive we aren’t trying to find them. Don’t believe me? OK, so how come your best ideas come in the shower? Did you step into the shower and tell yourself, “Today I will condition my hair and try to brainstorm solutions to that problem at work”? Of course not. That wasn’t even on your brain and yet, mid “repeat as necessary” the solution hits you!
I don’t think you should bring waterproof note cards into your shower, but you should keep a stack of regular cards around. Fear would love to add the inconvenience of searching for one as a way to prevent an idea from seeing the light of day. Beat it back by keeping a stack in a few locations at home. And keep some in your pocket. It might feel a little strange, but anyone who judges you for writing down an idea and trying to be smarter about idea capture is a jerk. (You could always do this using an app on your phone but remember, there’s still something powerful about physically writing an idea down.)
The goal of looking for patterns is greater clarity into what skills you possess. If you have ten skills written down, for instance, and nine of them fall into the category “Skills I don’t use at my current job,” we need to fix that. We need to find a new job that uses more of your skills, bring more of your skills to your current job or learn the skills your job actually requires.
If you ended up with two note cards and a pattern of “I have no skills, I hate you Jon Acuff,” it might be time to phone a friend. Grab coffee with someone and ask them flat out, “What do you think my skills are?” If they’re like my friends their first temptation will be to say something about your ability to pay “da billz,” but immediately after they go to the extreme and rock a mic like a vandal they will surprise you with skills you forgot to write down. This conversation will definitely help you, but it will also be excruciating. It will feel like you’re asking a friend to list all of the ways you are awesome. Even if you set it up the right way and ask for a tangible skill and not a flowery compliment, you’re still going to squirm while they respond. Suck it up. You’re good at something. To pretend otherwise is a waste of time. The point of the note-card exercise is to generate two different things: 1. Hope 2. Awareness The first one is simple: Launching a Do Over takes a tremendous amount of hope. At the start of a journey like this, it’s very easy to get discouraged and think you currently don’t possess many career skills. Hopefully seeing them on a handful of note cards for the first time has encouraged you that just like with your relationships, you’re better off than you thought. The second goal, awareness, is something that will also come up in greater detail in the hustle section. In the skills portion, the purpose of increased awareness is to help you see new skills you might want to acquire. Whether you want to get better at your current job or find a new one, chances are you will need new skills. Seeing what skills you currently have on note cards often helps increase the awareness of what’s missing, those new skills you might need for a new job or to break through a Career Ceiling.
Remember Relationships get you the first gig, skills get you the second. You have more skills than you think. Writing them down and looking for patterns is a great way to discover that.
Don’t let fear hide a skill you’ve always had or wanted to pursue. Just because you’re afraid of doing something doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. If you have a hard time filling out note cards, tag a friend in to help you.
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How to NOT burn bridges in the workplace
Some people are not going to like you. There are people you work with right now who don’t like you. There are people at your last job who don’t like you. You don’t control what other people think about you. Your Do Over might mean staying put at a job and improving it from the inside out. It could mean jumping jobs to another company. Stay or go, you’ll have the opportunity to burn some bridges along the way.
Farewell foes, you say, throwing a match on a bridge you plan to never see again.
And yet, boomerangs return. Good ones and bad ones. The bridge you thought you were done with completely has a strange habit of coming back into the picture. You will work with some of the people you singed again. You will see them at industry events. They will be called by future employers for recommendations. They will be friends of other employers. You are not done with those relationships.
Some bridges need to be closed. They’re toxic and harmful. You didn’t light them on fire, you simply walked away from them and ended the relationship. But I swear, the fewer bridges you can burn in your career, the better your Career Savings Account will be. It’s hard to build new relationships if you’ve got some old ones in the vault that are still smoldering.
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Even Stupid People Get Promoted
You don’t like Brenda. She’s not just a foe, she’s your arch nemesis. Your Joker to Batman. You can’t stand the way she laughs, she’s not very good at her job and is a serial microwave popcorn burner.
It would be far easier to treat her with disdain. Perhaps not out-and-out disrespect, but it would be fun to talk behind her back. To join the “Brenda sucks” fan club, or if there’s not one, form your own. You could be the president. Your mom always said you were destined for office!
But here’s the problem: Brenda could be your boss someday. That might feel impossible right now. There’s no way management would promote her. She’s the worst! Can’t they see that? Don’t they know she’s a credit thief, a meeting elongater, and so dumb she makes up words worse than “elongater” in her e-mails? They couldn’t possibly make her your boss. And yet, that could happen.
I have seen far worse people than Brenda promoted. So have you. To argue otherwise is to believe that only amazing, noble, talented, kindhearted people hold positions of power at companies. Have you ever worked at a company for longer than seven minutes? Then you know that’s not true.
I’m not going to address your attitude by trying to turn you into a nicer person more prone to help old ladies cross the street. I’m going to help you avoid burning the bridge with Brenda because even stupid people get promoted.
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Leave Jobs with One Finger Raised High: Your Thumb
When I left my first job at Details Communications, I left like they had deeply offended me. I drove home t and actually stopped at the border to take photos commemorating my triumphant exit.
I quit. I didn’t just quit, I escaped! I broke free of the shackles of employment. Hurrah! Take that, day job!
I know that’s easier said than done. There are some bad jobs out there with bad bosses and bad coffee. I’m not asking you to be fake and give long, deep hugs to people who spent the previous day verbally assaulting you.
Don’t lie. Don’t be fake. That’s why it’s just a thumb. One thumb up. The more you can do that, the more relationships you’ll leave intact behind you and the less bitterness you’ll bring with you.
If your boss doesn’t see it, a coworker will. They will invite you to join the “We hate our jobs club” at your company, which is the worst club to join if you want a great career.
If your boss and coworker don’t see it, other potential employers will. How do I know? Because you’re going to get new job opportunities from places you least expect. Like casual relationships that follow you on Twitter.
Your intention might be to criticize the last place you worked, but that criticism lands on the shoulders of anyone who is still there. You might not be saying, “I was smart to leave and anyone who stays at that company is a fool,” but that is how it could be misinterpreted. Disagree? Sure, no one ever misinterprets statements other people make online.
What if You’ve Already Burned Some Bridges?
Leaving a job is an imperfect art form of which I have achieved finger-painting level. No matter how well you leave it, there are bound to be some hurt feelings, which again, you have no control over.
But what about the bridges you did burn? Through immaturity, arrogance or anger? What about the times you did indeed bow out with one finger raised but it was not the thumb? What then?
Apologize.
Not because it will perfectly repair the bridge. Not because you expect them to apologize in return for whatever wrong they did. Not with any expectation.
Apologize because it’s the only way to get the soot off of your hands. It need not be complicated; in most cases an e-mail will suffice. I
One boss I apologized to forgave me.
You Have More Skills Than You Think
If we ever had coffee and I asked you what your skills are, after quoting Liam Neeson from the movie Taken, you’d probably tell me one of two things: 1. I don’t know what my skills are. 2. I don’t have (m)any. The first answer might be born from the simple fact that you haven’t thought about that question ever. I once had a job that required us to do self-evaluations of our own skills. This exercise felt like an invitation to invent new ways you were awesome. We were motivated to do this because we all knew our raises were dependent on it but we still had a hard time coming up with a list of skills. My coworkers and I would scratch our heads and write things like “numbers.” My skills are numbers. That’s not a skill, that’s The Count from Sesame Street’s passion. That’s a noun. The second answer, the belief that you don’t have many, is probably because you’re human. We humans have a difficult job seeing our own skills as skills. Roy H. Williams, author and marketing expert, says, “It’s hard to read the label when you’re inside the bottle.”1 We don’t consider them skills but rather just things we do.
So during this fictional coffee, the first thing I would do is to try to help you figure out what skills you already have. I’d even pull out a stack of note cards, which would probably make you recoil a little. Because once again, we’re about to cross the threshold between dreaming and doing. Dreaming is fun. Future results are enjoyable to talk about. Present efforts are not. But I’d push through all the hope you’ve stored in someday and try my best to get you to focus on the skills portion of your CSA today.
We tend to focus on “how to get more skills” first, which is understandable. “Get more” conversations invite you to dream. Assessing what you already have forces you to be honest. One of those is clearly more fun.
But this is a critical point in this section. Because now we’re going to do some work. The goal is to create a list of our current skills so that we know what we have to work with, what might be missing and what we want to improve. Don’t worry—we won’t be using note cards in the hustle or character sections—but when it comes to skills we need a method for figuring out where we are in order to head toward where we want to be.
We’re going to build on the approach we started with in relationships. In that section, there was only one step: Write the name of someone you know who can help with your Do Over. Skills take a little more detail, but I assure you this is just as simple as the first exercise you already crushed. ■ What We’re About to Do There are only two steps to this exercise: 1. Write down ideas. 2. Look for patterns. For my high-detail friends this is like some sort of dream come true. You probably already have a note-card drawer sorted by color and size. For my low-detail friends, you are among company. I feel your lack of organization but I assure you that your career is worth it. ■ Step 1: Write Down Ideas I have a stack of cards on my desk. One of them just says, “Naps.” I have no idea what that means now. It’s possible that at one point I was creating a list of things that are awesome or perhaps brainstorming activities Winnie the Pooh likes. Hard to say, but here’s what’s important: It doesn’t matter.
I don’t want your cards to be perfect. I just want you to write. I want you to work your way into the freedom to write down any skills that you like. I say work your way into it because like most people, you’ve been taught to be safe. Somewhere on the road to adulthood we decided that dreams were dumb. We stopped wanting to be firemen and astronauts and settled for stuck and predictable. We accepted the lie that Monday must be boring.
Step 1 is all about quantity. One skill per card, as many cards as you can come up with. This is not the time to edit. For now, we’re going for volume. Don’t ask yourself “Is this dumb?” It might be, and that’s OK. All I want you to do is write one skill you currently have per card. Don’t try to cram multiple ideas onto a single card.
To get started, here are some questions you can answer about your skills: 1. What are you good at? Screw humility. This is no time to be humble. This is the hero’s slow walk from an explosion moment. What’s something you’re good, dare I say, amazing at? Do you create great marketing proposals? Can no one balance a budget like you can? I’m not talking about just in your current job either. Go way back. If you were a fantastic paperboy, write down “On-time delivery.” With relationships, we surfaced the casual ones because there’s no telling where they might lead. Same with skills. Surface them all! 2. What comes naturally? This question will generate some “Oh, this?” skills, those things you don’t even think about because they come so naturally to you. You think everyone can do what you do, but we can’t. The elaborate dinner parties you throw so easily, like Sarah and her Neighbor’s Table, are indicative that you’re amazing at event planning and connecting with others. That thing that comes naturally to you is difficult for the rest of the population. Just because it’s easy doesn’t mean it’s not a skill. 3. What do people pay me to do? If you’ve ever had a single job, this question is going to generate at least one note card. What were your responsibilities at your favorite job? Write them down, one card per skill. For instance, if you were in charge of quality assurance for software launches, write down, “quality assurance.” Increase the cards this question generates by asking, “What skill would people pay me to do?” (Hint: The answer is “Almost anything.”) 4. What are you afraid of? Bears, obviously, but besides these furred denizens of death there are plenty of important skills hidden inside our fears. The reason is that great passions usually come with great fears. You’ve known you were supposed to do something for years, but have been avoiding it because you’re afraid of it. Write that down. For example, I would list “writing” as one of my fears. Isn’t that stupid to be afraid to do the thing I feel most called to do? It is, but no one ever accused fear of being smart. This one might feel counterintuitive because we’re often told to answer the question “What do I love doing?” when it comes to figuring out our dreams and skills. I think that’s an important question and one you could certainly ask with this exercise, but I’ve also learned we can be afraid of the things that really matter to us. Be honest with yourself. Do you really dread public speaking or are you afraid of it because you’re worried you might not be good at it and it’s something you secretly want to do? 5. If you wrote an eBook, what would the topic be? Times are tough. Bills are due. Ma and Pa are about to lose the beet farm. The only way to save the situation is to write a twenty-page eBook that teaches eager shoppers to do something you’re good at. Are you renowned for your ability to pack ten days of clothes into a small carry-on for business trips? Have people marveled in the past at your skills in creating marketing strategies for book launches? Have you figured out a unique way to fit a fully functional wood shop in your garage but always thought of it as a silly hobby? If you had to create an eBook today, what would the topic be? If you had to write a series of three, what would be in your trilogy? ■ Step 2: Look for Patterns Now that you’ve got a few skills labeled you’ll start to notice something: Some of the ideas are related. They might not say the same thing, but they are at least cousins in the family tree of creativity. As you start to see some that are similar, begin grouping them together. Cluster them in a way that you can still see the nugget of each idea at a glance. If you create a vertical stack that covers up all the ideas except the one on top, you won’t be able to see them all at once and might miss something important. Group them in the way that works best for you. Maybe you want to group yours by “Skills I love doing,” “Skills I get paid the most for,” “Skills I want to improve” or “Skills I haven’t used in a long time.”
Don’t worry if you don’t come right out of the gate with some patterns. If this is your first go-round with an activity like this, you shouldn’t be great at it yet. Try tweaking this exercise to make it work the best possible way for you.
Please don’t get stuck using a tool that is designed to help you get unstuck. This shouldn’t be a perfect process. In fact, I hope it’s not. You should only spend a few minutes when you initially do this, then walk away. Building a Career Savings Account is a lifelong process; you’ve got time. Put your cards in a spot where you will see them during your average day. I want you to bump into them as you walk to the kitchen or garage. Some (most) ideas are elusive. They don’t walk into our heads and announce themselves; we have to capture them. And often they won’t come out until they’re positive we aren’t trying to find them. Don’t believe me? OK, so how come your best ideas come in the shower? Did you step into the shower and tell yourself, “Today I will condition my hair and try to brainstorm solutions to that problem at work”? Of course not. That wasn’t even on your brain and yet, mid “repeat as necessary” the solution hits you!
I don’t think you should bring waterproof note cards into your shower, but you should keep a stack of regular cards around. Fear would love to add the inconvenience of searching for one as a way to prevent an idea from seeing the light of day. Beat it back by keeping a stack in a few locations at home. And keep some in your pocket. It might feel a little strange, but anyone who judges you for writing down an idea and trying to be smarter about idea capture is a jerk. (You could always do this using an app on your phone but remember, there’s still something powerful about physically writing an idea down.)
The goal of looking for patterns is greater clarity into what skills you possess. If you have ten skills written down, for instance, and nine of them fall into the category “Skills I don’t use at my current job,” we need to fix that. We need to find a new job that uses more of your skills, bring more of your skills to your current job or learn the skills your job actually requires.
If you ended up with two note cards and a pattern of “I have no skills, I hate you Jon Acuff,” it might be time to phone a friend. Grab coffee with someone and ask them flat out, “What do you think my skills are?” If they’re like my friends their first temptation will be to say something about your ability to pay “da billz,” but immediately after they go to the extreme and rock a mic like a vandal they will surprise you with skills you forgot to write down. This conversation will definitely help you, but it will also be excruciating. It will feel like you’re asking a friend to list all of the ways you are awesome. Even if you set it up the right way and ask for a tangible skill and not a flowery compliment, you’re still going to squirm while they respond. Suck it up. You’re good at something. To pretend otherwise is a waste of time. The point of the note-card exercise is to generate two different things: 1. Hope 2. Awareness The first one is simple: Launching a Do Over takes a tremendous amount of hope. At the start of a journey like this, it’s very easy to get discouraged and think you currently don’t possess many career skills. Hopefully seeing them on a handful of note cards for the first time has encouraged you that just like with your relationships, you’re better off than you thought. The second goal, awareness, is something that will also come up in greater detail in the hustle section. In the skills portion, the purpose of increased awareness is to help you see new skills you might want to acquire. Whether you want to get better at your current job or find a new one, chances are you will need new skills. Seeing what skills you currently have on note cards often helps increase the awareness of what’s missing, those new skills you might need for a new job or to break through a Career Ceiling.
Remember Relationships get you the first gig, skills get you the second. You have more skills than you think. Writing them down and looking for patterns is a great way to discover that.
Don’t let fear hide a skill you’ve always had or wanted to pursue. Just because you’re afraid of doing something doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. If you have a hard time filling out note cards, tag a friend in to help you.
Read More
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How to NOT burn bridges in the workplace
Some people are not going to like you. There are people you work with right now who don’t like you. There are people at your last job who don’t like you. You don’t control what other people think about you. Your Do Over might mean staying put at a job and improving it from the inside out. It could mean jumping jobs to another company. Stay or go, you’ll have the opportunity to burn some bridges along the way.
Farewell foes, you say, throwing a match on a bridge you plan to never see again.
And yet, boomerangs return. Good ones and bad ones. The bridge you thought you were done with completely has a strange habit of coming back into the picture. You will work with some of the people you singed again. You will see them at industry events. They will be called by future employers for recommendations. They will be friends of other employers. You are not done with those relationships.
Some bridges need to be closed. They’re toxic and harmful. You didn’t light them on fire, you simply walked away from them and ended the relationship. But I swear, the fewer bridges you can burn in your career, the better your Career Savings Account will be. It’s hard to build new relationships if you’ve got some old ones in the vault that are still smoldering.
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Even Stupid People Get Promoted
You don’t like Brenda. She’s not just a foe, she’s your arch nemesis. Your Joker to Batman. You can’t stand the way she laughs, she’s not very good at her job and is a serial microwave popcorn burner.
It would be far easier to treat her with disdain. Perhaps not out-and-out disrespect, but it would be fun to talk behind her back. To join the “Brenda sucks” fan club, or if there’s not one, form your own. You could be the president. Your mom always said you were destined for office!
But here’s the problem: Brenda could be your boss someday. That might feel impossible right now. There’s no way management would promote her. She’s the worst! Can’t they see that? Don’t they know she’s a credit thief, a meeting elongater, and so dumb she makes up words worse than “elongater” in her e-mails? They couldn’t possibly make her your boss. And yet, that could happen.
I have seen far worse people than Brenda promoted. So have you. To argue otherwise is to believe that only amazing, noble, talented, kindhearted people hold positions of power at companies. Have you ever worked at a company for longer than seven minutes? Then you know that’s not true.
I’m not going to address your attitude by trying to turn you into a nicer person more prone to help old ladies cross the street. I’m going to help you avoid burning the bridge with Brenda because even stupid people get promoted.
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Leave Jobs with One Finger Raised High: Your Thumb
When I left my first job at Details Communications, I left like they had deeply offended me. I drove home t and actually stopped at the border to take photos commemorating my triumphant exit.
I quit. I didn’t just quit, I escaped! I broke free of the shackles of employment. Hurrah! Take that, day job!
I know that’s easier said than done. There are some bad jobs out there with bad bosses and bad coffee. I’m not asking you to be fake and give long, deep hugs to people who spent the previous day verbally assaulting you.
Don’t lie. Don’t be fake. That’s why it’s just a thumb. One thumb up. The more you can do that, the more relationships you’ll leave intact behind you and the less bitterness you’ll bring with you.
If your boss doesn’t see it, a coworker will. They will invite you to join the “We hate our jobs club” at your company, which is the worst club to join if you want a great career.
If your boss and coworker don’t see it, other potential employers will. How do I know? Because you’re going to get new job opportunities from places you least expect. Like casual relationships that follow you on Twitter.
Your intention might be to criticize the last place you worked, but that criticism lands on the shoulders of anyone who is still there. You might not be saying, “I was smart to leave and anyone who stays at that company is a fool,” but that is how it could be misinterpreted. Disagree? Sure, no one ever misinterprets statements other people make online.
What if You’ve Already Burned Some Bridges?
Leaving a job is an imperfect art form of which I have achieved finger-painting level. No matter how well you leave it, there are bound to be some hurt feelings, which again, you have no control over.
But what about the bridges you did burn? Through immaturity, arrogance or anger? What about the times you did indeed bow out with one finger raised but it was not the thumb? What then?
Apologize.
Not because it will perfectly repair the bridge. Not because you expect them to apologize in return for whatever wrong they did. Not with any expectation.
Apologize because it’s the only way to get the soot off of your hands. It need not be complicated; in most cases an e-mail will suffice. I
One boss I apologized to forgave me.
Changing Careers
The unfamiliar is frightening. As much as we know that risks must be taken, we also see that failure hurts. However, small failures are easily forgotten and shouldn’t keep you from trying again. If you really are risk-averse, plan your trips into the scary parts of life in small steps. Set your goals in smaller steps and be prepared for both failures and successes. And be prepared to learn from your failures and to reset your goals accordingly.Look for a new job
You should know whether the itch you want to scratch is real, or just something that will pass.
You should know everything there is to know about your present employer, at least as it relates to you and your future.
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Impress a Potential New Employer
You’re going to have to work a little harder here simply because a potential employer probably has no record at all of what you have done and are doing for your present employer. You have to tread lightly when trying to impress a potential employer with your accomplishments to avoid giving away sensitive company information. While some potential employers would love to have access to information about your present employer, they seldom think highly of a snitch.
Most potential employers usually ask why you want to leave your present employer.
Describe what you have done above and beyond what was What Makes for a Satisfying Job?
work satisfaction is still considered the turning point in understanding what makes people happy or unhappy at work.
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1. Think of a time when you felt especially good about your job. Why did you feel that way?
2. Think of a time when you felt especially bad about your job. Why did you feel that way?
Forget the job for a moment. What gives you pleasure off the job? Your job and your growth within your chosen field are important, but just as important is your growth as a person. Sadly, far too many people leave school thinking they’ve learned everything they will ever need to know.
Whatever you have learned and mastered should make you curious about learning more, whether it relates to your work or your personal :)
Are You Motivated to Make a Major Career Change?
Life is more than work. It’s more than hobbies and other personal interests. And if I were to try to give you the meaning of life, I’d be making it up. However, we’re not operating at that lofty level, we’re talking about you and your career.
ways to think about your career—should you move up in the company that employs you, should you look for a lateral move in that company, or is it time to pull up stakes and head elsewhere?
The boss avoids your gaze. Terror strikes your heart. Time to call your headhunter, right? Wrong. The boss was distracted and didn’t even know you were in the room. so relax…
Unless it has been forced on you, you should carefully plan any career move
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JOBSEARCH BE INTERVIEW-READY
According to a well-known human resource expert, the first five minutes of the interview is what makes or breaks it. In that time, the interviewer has taken in your grooming, appearance, handshake, presence, ability to make eye contact, and has decided if you are articulate and if your personality fits with the company.
When dressing for the job interview, be conservative. No flowery skirts or tennis shoes, regardless of the company’s dress code. Wear a clean, pressed, plain-colored suit (yes, women, too). Wear practical shoes and carry a briefcase.
ASK FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOR HELP
When you experience a major loss, you need love and support from others.
Don’t feel ashamed of your heightened dependence on others right now. If your loss was recent, you may feel the need to be around people and to talk about your job loss often. You may need help financially, with chores at home, or getting things organized for your jobsearch. Take comfort in the thought that other people care about you and are available to help. Think of specific ways they can help you right now.
Ask your family or friends for ongoing support and patience. Don’t hesitate. Those who love and care for you truly want to help you look for a job. You just need to ask. Tell them how they can best help you process your emotions and deal with your loss.
We often think, “I’ll wake up and this will not have happened.” Early grief can feel like being in a dream. Your emotions need time to catch up with what your mind has been told. Your body slows in response to this emotional shock. You may feel like you can’t do much of anything.
Feelings of passivity often go hand-in-hand with numbness. Maybe you feel child-like. Maybe you are neglecting your basic needs for
You’ve lost your job. That’s a big deal. The loss of a job is a major life loss because something that you truly valued is no longer a part of your life.
Most likely, even if you weren’t crazy about your job, there were things about it that you valued. Now these aspects are gone. Maybe you miss the:
- Challenges of your work
- Coworkers
- Comfort of your daily routine
- Energy in your work environment
- Creativity that you expressed through your work
- Security of income, retirement plans, and health insurance
- Identity and self-worth offered by your position
Just as when you lose someone you love to death or divorce, you feel the loss of your job—maybe not to the same extent, but the loss is real. It shakes up your life and self-confidence.
Job loss creates strong emotions. At first, you may feel devastated and shocked. These feelings might turn to anger, sadness, or self-doubt. Maybe you feel a sense of emptiness or even anger at the injustice of being let go, or at how it was carried out.
Job loss creates strong emotions. At first, you may feel devastated and shocked. These feelings might turn to anger, sadness, or self-doubt. Maybe you feel a sense of emptiness or even anger at the injustice of being let go, or at how it was carried out. You could be having racing thoughts about what you should do next. All these feelings are normal after a job loss.
SEIZE THE DAY
Consider what you valued most about your job. Was it the breakroom conversations, the feeling of being in charge, or the mental challenge of carrying out your duties?
Find practical ways to soften a particular loss, today. For example, if you miss coworkers, call your favorites and set up a lunch or coffee date. If it was the challenge, pick up an old project and consider starting it up again. You could be having racing thoughts about what you should do next. All these feelings are normal after a job loss.
Yes, you’ve lost your job, but you’ve also lost all the little things that go with it. Not only have you lost your source of income, you may have also lost your sense of economic stability, security, and a feeling that you have control over your life.
You may also have lost a feeling that you held status or rank in the community. You may feel disconnected and no longer involved.
Each of these items demonstrates individual losses that you have endured. Add them up and you’ve taken a big hit.
Stay in touch with your feelings by leaning into them when you have the energy and space to do so. In practical terms, this means that when feelings come up, stop and feel them, share them with a friend, or write them down. Doing so helps you release your grief of losing your job.
Feeling your jobloss grief
Society teaches us that emotional pain is to be avoided, not embraced. It is only in moving toward pain and grief, however, that we can heal the wounds that come when we lose something significant.
Be aware if you notice others telling you how well you are doing with your job loss, or if you don’t feel much at all. Sometimes doing well means you are avoiding your pain, hiding your emotions, or experiencing some of the natural numbness that grief brings.
Of course, it is important to pace yourself when you are allowing your grief and pain to surface. Sometimes, you’ll need to distract yourself from the pain or set it aside for a bit so that you can still move through your day.
RECOGNIZE FEELINGS OF SHOCK
You may find that you don’t feel much of anything yet. If so, you might be in shock.
Feelings of shock, numbness, and disbelief are common during the first days and even weeks following job loss. These feelings are nature’s way of temporarily protecting you from the full reality of your loss. Like anesthesia, they help you survive the pain of early grief.
If your job loss shocked you to your core, it may be a blessing to feel numb.
You like your job, but you feel your recent employment review doesn’t paint a good picture of you. First of all, many performance reviews (in my humble estimation) do more harm than good. Sure, some are done very well, but most employee reviews are done by people whose work isn’t in human resources. It’s time-consuming and tedious, like asking the head of the shipping department to review and report on the work of the manufacturing department. Sure, many people take the assignment seriously, but when they don’t, you can suffer—or even find yourself promoted to jobs you are not yet qualified to handle.
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What if you work with and for idiots?
Your boss doesn’t know what he’s doing, your assistant is always late, and the guy in the mailroom always delivers your mail to someone three floors down with a name that isn’t even close to yours. Welcome to the real world. Nobody’s perfect. But suppose you decided that you had enough and took another job only to discover that the idiots at your new job are even worse. It could happen.
I work with idiots too- so I want another job. But-Unstable economic times can be scary, because of COVID. Right now Brisbane is on lock-down again, nearly a year later! its still the same.
But it doesn’t matter who I work with they often provide the stimulus most of us need to get out of a rut. Keep in mind that if you feel your job might be on the block for reasons other than your performance, you might be offered significant incentives to take a hike.
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Should I just leave now?
So, don’t jump ship too soon. If you quit, you get nothing, but if you’re smart, you will use the time you think you have left to start looking for another job.
Whether I am planning a long or short stay with my current employer, is still think moving up is important for many reasons.
Apart from the money and perks, any growth you can show on your resume plays well for your career. Stuck in rank for more than a few years doesn’t send the best vibes.
If you are ready for the move; you must be able to handle the new responsibility. Prepare your resume.
What Are You Looking For?
First of all, you are telling your boss that you want to continue and expand your career within the company. You are saying that you like the company enough to take a big chance by tackling a move over. You get a lot of points for this kind of gutsy move.
But you better be sure you can pull it off.
There are ways, however, of doing this with a minimum of pain and discomfort for all.
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Write Your Cover Letter the RIGHT Way
What two resume entries do you want the cover letter reader to examine in detail?
Keep your first draft to one page if possible, but don’t worry too much about length. Later, you’ll edit to the desired word count.
Don’t copy word for word any of the cover letter or resume samples that inspire you. Just get some ideas down on paper or on screen. Don’t feel pressured to generate your final draft first.
focus your paragraphs on your cover letter
Remember what you once learned about the five-paragraph essay? Begin with a clear thesis statement supported by two paragraphs and end with a conclusion.
Cover letters should include the same. The initial paragraph cites job title or functional area of interest, and requests an interview.
This first section can identify the foundations upon which you will rest your candidacy. Is it education? Is it work experience in general, or one or two particular accomplishments? Is it a specific project that matches the position’s stated requirements?
Resume Qualification and motivation paragraphs.
These two paragraphs (sometimes presented in bullet-point lists) detail qualification and motivation connections. They identify examples from your past that project abilities to perform in the future.
How can you connect achievements to job requirements?
for : Resume Closing paragraph.
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These phrases convey a strong sense of enthusiasm and interest.
Administrative Assistant
Upon reading the advertisement in the Jackson Review, I was inspired to contact you immediately and offer this cover letter and attached resume to formalize my interest.
Assistant Curator
Please consider me a strong, enthusiastic, and focused candidate for the Assistant Curator position recently advertised on www.seek.com.au
Assistant Editor
I would like to take all appropriate steps to formalize my candidacy. for the position of Assistant Editor. When I reviewed the posting advertised via www.indeed.com.au
You can also try the below:
Field Finance Manager - While my current position with (Boring Company, Pty Ltd.) is most challenging and rewarding, the opportunity to serve within the capacities described in the posting is professionally exciting.
Fundraiser - I hope someday my enthusiasm and professionalism can contribute to the success of your development campaigns and grant application efforts.
Home Economics Department Coordinator
It would be with great professional enthusiasm and the pride of an alumnus that I now formalise my candidacy for the Home Economics Department Coordinator position.
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I applied for this jobs and used the following for my resume intro:
Program Coordinator
I am particularly qualified for this opportunity as a result of my double language major, my current enrolment in two language-proficiency certificate programs, as well as past experiences within tutorial and teaching roles.
Site Location Supervisor
During the past fifteen years, my experiences as a developer, general contractor, owner, and property manager of residential, commercial, and industrial projects have been extensive. In conjunction with these projects, I was actively involved in investment analysis, whole loans and structured transactions, and financial control to assure quality completion within schedules and budgets.
I want to share this because I went to job agencies when i started my jobsearching, I learnt that:
Employment agencies most often deal with temporary, temp-to-perm, or entry-level opportunities. In truth, they don’t find jobs for people, they find candidates for jobs posted with them. Search professionals, or headhunters as they are called, regularly source candidates and they also seek retainer or contingency relationships with potential employers.
Once employers post, these professionals screen information from candidates to determine those who match. Most often, search professionals deal with management or executive level candidates and opportunities or with very specialised fields.
Search professionals also don’t find jobs for people, they find people for jobs that have been posted with them. Cover letters must inspire search professionals to interview and, ultimately, select you as worthy of referral to an employer. If they believe you will get an offer, they envision their contingency or retainer payment already earned, so they are motivated to advocate on your behalf. Lets figure this out fellow jobseekers
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Helps me to Expand the Scope of My jobsearch
There’s nothing I can do in a few sentences, but I picked-up a few do’s and a few don’ts that will make my jobsearch more pleasant and successful experience.
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After reading this, I have to review my current sucky job description and have noticed that I do more that what im being paid for.
With no payrise.
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