Finding the Spark of Your Career from Transition is the New Normal 2016 [Audio] (1:01)

A clip from the presentation, “Transition is the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on March 4, 2016

Watch this entire presentation

Listen to this clip

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Transcript:

When you have that type of love for your work — and I’ll point to typical places where this arises, like teaching and other areas like that where you are dealing with children especially — if you develop that love, you will work harder. You will produce better. You will do great, great work because you have that little spark — that little extra spark. So one of the things that I have tried to do over the years is help people find that spark. And it started with me — me sitting down after a layoff particularly, going “What the heck do I really like to do and not do and all this stuff?” And then I had a friend some to me and he was in the midst of a transition and he was struggling it just struck me and I said, ‘Here’s what you want to do. Write down everything you do right now. Then write down everything you would want to do — that you enjoy doing and let’s work our way through it.”

Links for items mentioned in this talk: