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Today let me introduce you to this rather important thought. The concept is easy to understand. And yet it’s extremely powerful.

Why?

Because the more you know the more you grow!

And when you have to make a decision you have something to base it on. You can also stay away from guesswork more.

And less guess at the start is less mess in the end.

Outcomes are no longer random but planned.

Even better: You can rule out choices which you know are no good for you.

And when fear comes your way you know the options you can switch to. Thus you can create relief and improve the quality of your life in no time at all.

Since your life improves the more you know, it comes natural to you to increase your understanding day by day. It’s like a personal bonus pack that keeps paying interest: No weight to carry. No room to make. It’s just plain benefit. And it’s getting more all the time.

So obviously you are well rewarded for regular studying, reading, thinking, and discussing. Looking back it may look like a lot of work. But it’s really split up into small chunks of knowledge gain everyday. As you work you grow. And the more you grow the more you know. And the more you know

Joerg Rauh is devoted to help the individual overcome fear in order to turn challenge into opportunity. See his website at http://www.free-from-cholesterol-fear.com.

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Nowadays we can expect to survive the second half of our lives and as our work is knowledge-based - we knowledge workers are not finished after 30 years on the job - Are we merely bored?

There are three ways to develop another career: The first way is to really start a career. Our original career decision (at school or college) may have been simply around ‘getting a job to make some money’ or just to ‘get into the job market’ in some way. The advice and guidance that we received at this time may have been limited by their own knowledge of what’s possible.

In this case the people looking for second careers who have achieved a modest success in their first jobs may be looking to change organisations where they can find challenge. The house is empty with the children gone - they need income as well. But above all they need challenge.

The second way to prepare for the second half of your life is to develop a career alongside your ‘full-time’ role. The classic example of this is working in a not-for-profit-organisation taking a few hours of our week. But there are other ways of building your experience and skills in a hobby or interest to run alongside your ‘day job’ so that when the time
comes for you to change you can ‘hit the ground running’, in your new role.

You really need to begin what you want to do in the second half of your career long before you enter it. If you haven’t taken time out to do this you will need all the career coaching magic you can get to make up for lost time and opportunity.

The third way is to make a complete change and this is a lot rarer than people think. With the right help however it is entirely possible. People who get that ‘back to work’ feeling on a Sunday night and who wonder whether there must be some thing better out there for themselves, are right.

The grass is greener, but regardless of the dream they have they need to be sure that their choice of a second career is a wise one and not simply a flight from the routine and frustration that is common to all jobs. First people
need to understand what they are good at (their strengths), what they enjoy (do what you love and the money will follow) and what’s important to them and visualise an image of how they would like their future to be.

(suspend your left brain judgement and allow the right brain to envision) They need to determine how they would behave in certain situations - whether for instance, they prefer risk-taking, perform well working alone, developing rapport or operating in a team. Working with a good career coach they can
be armed with an understanding of their own vision and strengths and be in a position to weigh their career options realistically and start their new careers successfully.

Imagine what your life would be like if you knew your life calling more clearly, became an expert in your field and you got up each morning excited about the day’s opportunities for facing challenge and adding value to the world.

You can do this by clarifying your life talent, designing a career around your calling, learning to achieve mastery in your core strengths, making a dramatic leap in your self-confidence and developing your customer’s experience to create the trust that takes people with you?

This is what I do. If you want to listen to what other people have to say (you can read some of the testimonials here) If you would like to talk to someone with whom I’m working, then give me a call on 0845 2020 244.

Hi I’m Margaret Stead - a Dream Architect, helping individuals, executives and business owners market themselves online into new jobs, careers - building customer-employer relationships and increasing their job satisfaction.

I offer personal career coaching, workshops, tutorials and classes reports on the telephone and in one to one meetings that help people just like you do job hunting that gets results. You can learn more about my terrific online resources at http://www.careersnet.com or read my popular newsletter. (http://www.careersnet.com/default.asp?page=news0205)

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In ninth grade I used to hang around with a couple of boys who had a tree house. We fixed it up a bit and became very proud of it. It was about 25′ high. We could see all the way down to the river over all of the roof tops when we sat in it at night. It was fancy for a tree house, with two floors and a back porch. The only difficult with the back porch was that it was made out of flimsy plywood. If one stepped down onto it the wrong way it would simply fold itself up, toss him or her 25′ to the ground, and then spring back up. Otherwise, it was fine. (After stepping on it the wrong way once, one never did it again. It was a learning tool.)

We also had a long nylon rope hanging down from a branch near the tree house. A person coming up could take the long way up the tree, or just climb the rope. At first I could not climb that rope and was ashamed to let anyone know.

I remember looking at the other two boys climbing the rope all the time. I was tired of going the other way. I had to learn to climb that rope.

I waited until no one else was around and started trying to climb, using the same movements as the others. After only about two pulls my arms were exhausted. My palms felt as if they were being torn by the rope, but I kept going. I was determined and I made it. The same thing often occurs with other things in our lives. Sometimes we want something so bad that we even dream about it. We watch others doing what we would like and cannot even begin to think of ways to attain the skills needed to sing, dance, work with computers, or whatever.

The secret to attaining what we want, I think, is the same as the secret of climbing the rope. The only secret was time, determination and practice. If we can take the time to do the many small steps necessary to work toward the attainment of our goals, it is very likely that we will achieve them some day.

As for the rope. Later the next day we met in the back yard. We decided to climb into the tree house like so many times before. I walked over to the rope, tested it, and began to climb. All my friends looked on “slack-jawed,” until I finally got to the top. When we all finally got into the tree-house one of them said, “I didn’t know that you could climb the rope.” I answer, “Oh yeah?” and that was how the conversation ended.

If we take the steps to care for ourselves and to develop the skills that we need to obtain our goals, perhaps some day we will be doing something and a friend will suddenly turn to us with a pleasant smile and say, “That was great. I didn’t know that you could do that.” We can then look at them, tilt our head slightly to the side and thoughtfully answer them, “Oh yeah?”

Dr. John W. Gilmore is a writer, a spiritual director, a certified healer, a martial arts instructor, and an ordained minister. To read more articles like this visit this ezine or our free Practical Spirituality Journal at http://www.dswellness.com. There you can explore our website in detail and our absolutely free Circle of Creation Spirituality and Stress Reduction 101 at our cyber school.

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