Careers

Inthe past year of doing this blog, I’d grown confident in my writing abilities. It wasn’t until I recently started as a content copywriter in an EduTech startup, that this perception was challenged big time.

With 2018 just beginning, many of us have reflected on the year that’s past, what we’ve achieved, and how we can do better.

Cultivating a fulfilling career that delivers value is what Reintention strives to help you achieve through self empowerment.

Your goal is to influence, while the other party’s job to be persuaded by you.

While plenty of research explores the benefits of affirmations and mantras, how can we transition positive statements into thought-provoking action? Here’s a list of questions that I ask each day and why you should too.

Self empowerment is the combination of thoughts, feelings and actions that create a person’s life blueprint. Principles, skills and goals also form part of this blueprint, held together with one’s mindset and level of personal awareness.

Experiences allow assessment of efficiency, performance and progress indicating whether anything that can be measured has been successful. Complementing my last post on warning signs in your career, how do you know if your efforts are moving in the right direction?

Push factors include the changing work environment and pull factors consist of uncovering your why and purpose. But how do you know you need to reinvent yourself? What are the calling signs for change?

Setting goals is a roadmap to change because it incapsulates the mindset and direction of where we want to be.

Purpose driven reinvention begins with 2 snapshots: a picture of where you are now and a snapshot of where you want to be.

Emotional intelligence (EQ) has been attributed as key to personal, organisational and leadership success.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a cornerstone resource for the modern property investor and is synonymous with its author and financial businessman Robert Kiyosaki.

Toxic habits are challenging and can lead to toxic relationships with others. Diagnosing our habits; the way we think, speak or treat ourself is difficult to do. Blinded by a lack of self-awareness, toxic habits can sabotage our reinvention progress and jeopardise success.

Myths about personal reinvention stem from all corners; from what we’re told from people in our life, to the material we consume to our influences or beliefs (whether empowering or limiting).

Training comes in many shapes and forms; short courses, on the job application, or being thrown in the deep end. Applying myself different training recently, I found short courses useful in filling gaps within existing knowledge.

Turning demotivation into motivation can be an eye-rolling bombardment of “stay positive”, “keep at it” and “work harder” messages that are seldom useful. If like me, you’ve felt a serious case of the “ceebs” from time to time (or constantly, it’s OK to admit), you’re probably keen to find motivation and keep it.

Tony’s message had me critically re-evaluate my life, choices and perspective. Some of these messages reinforced prior values and beliefs, and some were completely new.

Taking off rose coloured lenses ask, “What is perfect?“. Do we have an unrealistic view and expectation of ourselves?

“Business or science?” Was the question my 17 year old self was asked when I needed to make the big decision of what I was going to do with my life.

A personal brand is the associations people have with you. It is your trademark. Marketers utilise branding to create a reputation and identity for a company. Brands convert into sales because of emotional, functional or social connections made with a product or service.

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”― Guy Gavriel Kay

Superheroes are glorified. What makes them invincibly attractive? Their extraordinary ability to overcome odds and create salvation to those in need.

We all want to win. In reinvention, life, love. Despite this we still fail.

Wherever you are in life, we all go through ebbs and flows. Reinvention exacerbates these peaks and troughs adding further complexity.

Communication is confronting.

“…People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” — Maya Angelou

Self-awareness is the key to igniting the how in reinvention.