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from Laura Berman Fortgang

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Use More Than One Strategy To Land the Job You Want

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Here are the strategies that nine women used to obtain the jobs they wanted.  Take a look and see which ones spark an idea for you.  If you were to select a few approaches to pursue which would they be?  To inject some new energy into your campaign, try adding a strategy that you haven’t used before.  Since there is no silver bullet, a combination approach is your best bet.                  

“How to Find a Job (Yes, Even Now).”

Connecting Two Dreams

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Here’s one woman’s account of what it was like to realize that after years of pursuing what she thought she wanted, a new dream was forming.  It took some introspection and revisiting of her childhood before clarity came to Diana Abu-Jabar .  Diana’s younger self had concluded that meaningful work and having children were mutually exclusive choices and that she could pursue one or the other but not both.  In the Now What?® Program, this is what we refer to as “conflicting desires”.  The funny thing is that they might not even be opposite desires, but  how you interpret them or what you fear can happen that makes them appear opposite, which affects your assumptions about what is possible in your life.

It wasn’t until Diana was in her 40’s that she and her husband decided to become adoptive parents to a baby girl they named Grace.  The sharp lines of family vs. career have blurred.  “Through Grace, we transcended our old fears and perceptions of ourselves that no longer fit.  We discovered that life could be so much bigger than we had imagined.”  Reflecting on the changes that have transpired Diana comments, “Life pours into new containers…”  

Questions to Consider:

  • Are there assumptions you’ve made that can be revisited now?
  • What dreams of yours have you been framing as mutually exclusive? What is a new container that can connect them?

“Not What She Expected.”