A portfolio career - your future?

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A Portfolio Career is becoming more and more common in our current employment and financial environment. Essentially it means having several streams of incomes, commonly a few part-time roles or small businesses. The great benefit is being in the driving seat in terms of your income, security and time!

 

The upside of our current financial climate is the lack of security in traditional employment pushing individuals to make security for themselves and take the reigns of their future, income and how work fits their lifestyle. Nothing is black and white anymore and each and everyone of us is being pushed more and more to create our lives as we want them, as opposed to merely accepting we’re part of the flock!

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The 7 Deadly Career Sins

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You will spend 97,464 hours in your lifetime at work….. That’s over 33.3% of your time on this planet. The other 33.3% is sleeping…. Put it in that context and if you’re not happy at work, you can’t possibly be happy in life.

So many of our clients come to us as a result of one or more of these ‘Career Sins’. Work is a huge part of who we are and defines our day-to-day life. How you feel and relate to your work-life will determine the quality of your life.

If you can relate to one or more of these, make today the day you decide to take ownership of your happiness and fulfilment and do something about it!

1. DREAD

The Old Sunday Night Blues…if the thought of work coming ever closer, starting a whole new week, fills you with dread, you are committing a HUGE personal sin! If you’re not enjoying your work, your workplace, not connected with what you do, it’s time to really do something about it! Monday’s don’t have to be so bad. What would it be like to feel good about another week?

“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” -Warren Buffett

2. BOREDOM

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Money is my friend - learn how to do what you love and earn what you want!

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Money is one of those subjects that people get uncomfortable, emotional and often upset around. Most of us have resistance around having money, spending money, borrowing money, how much so and so has, how much we have and what we do for money.

The key to unlocking our earning and happiness potential is in understanding our unconscious thoughts and emotions around this subject, usually formed in childhood and inherited from our parents. Becoming aware of our relationship with money and how we earn it, can be the most liberating thing you can do and actually choosing Read more


Getting Focused & more importantly staying focused to achieve anything you want to!

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September saw us get back in gear after those lazy summer days and embark on our ‘Re-focus Campaign’ for Winter 2012. Now that we’re in FULL swing we thought it would be great to share the steps we and our clients are taking to achieve our 2012 goals, so that you can do it too! Getting focused is one thing, staying focused is usually the real challenge.

The objective of Re-Focus Campaign 2012: to revisit, tweak and achieve the goals we set out for ourselves at the beginning of 2012, before the dawn of 2013! The first step is always, FOCUS, so today, that’s what we’re talking about. Read more


Top 5 reasons people use a Career Coach - in one tiny postcard.

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The top 7 reasons people choose to work with a Career Coach.

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Summer is over! 2013 is on it’s way!

We’ve been so busy this summer, we haven’t had a chance to blog, but with Winter coming in and focus returning as 2013 comes hurtling towards us, we’re getting refocused and hopefully helping you to refocus too.

We get asked all the time, what exactly is Career Coaching, why would someone work with a Career Coach? So we thought we’d share our top 7 reasons, from our experience of our clients, as to why people choose to work with a Career Coach:

1. To find direction.

2. To change career/job

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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs - Harvard Business Review

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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs - Harvard Business Review.


7 Career Advice Tips if you’re considering a change.

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1. Action cures Fear

Firstly Do something! Don’t say - I can’t, however fearful you might be. Ask for help, people will help if they see you are making a genuine effort to take action. Action empowers you, the first step will be the hardest and gradually you will start to take bigger and bigger steps. Keep taking action every day.

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Your Energy Account?

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I have been using the analogy of the energy bank account for many years now with clients and it is definitely one of the most effective tools in helping people become aware of the importance of balance, time out and investment back into themselves.

The basic rules are these: Essentially it’s a numbers game. You only ever have 100% energy. Just as there are only ever 24 hours in each day and usually 16 waking hours in a day. Every human’s level of energy works the same, we have circadian cycles, where we are more productive and alert at certain times of the day.

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The 3 C’s - Get the best from Life & Work.

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SEVEN understands that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. SEVEN Career Coaching has exclusively developed this concept to help clients get an objective view of HOW they structure their day and the small choices they make, can add up to have a BIG IMPACT!

CONTRAST: Creating space between work and home, enhances your enjoyment of both. When we just go from bed to work, bed to work, bed to work, life is dull and mundane and just feels like a cycle of work and recovery.

So how do we maintain contrast? With something we exclusively at SEVEN like to call CONTAINMENT.

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