Do you feel grumpy, tired and de-motivated at the thought of going to work each morning?  Do you dread the daily grind and live for the weekends and holidays?

Did you know that ....

If you work about 40 hours per week, that's nearly 2,000 hours a year or more than ten years of your life?  And that’s not counting commuting time which can account for another 10 hours a week or more. 

You only live once and you want to squeeze every last moment of joy and happiness from every day, so don’t you think its a terrible waste to spend this huge chunk of time shouldn’t on feeling like this?  

What if I told you that you can wake up feeling energised, excited and looking forward to work EVERY SINGLE WORKING DAY OF YOUR LIFE?

I specialise in career management and can help this amazing change to your life become a reality.  You really can spend your working life enjoying yourself without compromising on how much you earn. 

To find out how to claim a FREE introductory career coaching session and receive a FREE e-book "How to Get a Job - FAST" contact me by e-mail or phone me on 0781 728 9952 for a no-obligation chat. 

HERE'S MY STORY

That awful and all too familiar description of yet another “day at the coalface” is exactly how I used to feel. I went from job to job constantly hoping that the next one would be the one I would settle into and stay with. But usually by about the sixth month I was bored and fed up with the whole thing. My colleagues were horrible, the work was boring the money was too low and I was back in the job market hoping the grass would be greener somewhere else. 

No-one told me back then that it was all about my attitude and not just the bad jobs I was signing up to. Having a great career is 80% mindset and 20% the job itself. 

I struggled to find new jobs – and believe me, it can be hard work finding a new job so I probably spent more time doing that than actually working. I’d constantly panic and tell myself that I couldn’t afford to be out of work so would take anything so long as it got me out of my current situation. 

What I didn’t realise was that if I had approached it from the attitude angle, things would have been very different. 

My heart was rarely in it, I was constantly worried and stressed from thinking negative thoughts about myself and my job, wondering if I should be looking for the next job just in case this one didn’t work out. And guess what? It usually didn’t work out because that was what I was expecting. 

Sometimes it is necessary to move on from a job or a company in order to move your career forward, that’s a given.  Other times you can make more out of your time with your current employer through making a real impact in the job and gaining promotion.  You just have to know when the right time is and what to do about it.

So, what happened to turn it all around for me?

One day I was sitting at home feeling sorry for myself.  I had recently come out of a relationship which had become toxic to me (I've since realised just how responsible I was for creating the situation myself) and I was miserable in my job.  Again!  I knew there was something fundamentally wrong with my life and I wanted answers, but I wasn’t going to find them by sulking and moaning that nothing ever goes right. I had to start looking for those answers as they just weren’t dropping in my lap. 

Fortunately I had a computer with internet access so that was the obvious place to start.  There I found masses of e-books and information on every conceivable subject and a plethora of possible solutions to my problems.  Amid the information over-load I felt drawn to the material about positive thinking and coaching. 

It was the kick-start I needed. What I read actually made sense to me and finally it began to sink in that that my thoughts were shaping my reality.  I needed to take control of my life and take full and absolute responsibility for what happened at every level.  I had been constantly thinking that it was going to go wrong, a learned response from past experiences, and I had become a prisoner of those thoughts and self-fulfilling prophecies of doom.  

MY THOUGHTS WERE CREATING MY REALITY - CHANGE MY THOUGHTS AND I CHANGE MY REALITY

It sounded too simple but I had nothing to lose by trying

Instantly things started to change.  Over a period of a few months I practised this new philosophy on life together with an "attitude of gratitude" and began to break free from my obsessive negative thinking patterns.  I educated myself by reading as much as I could get my hands on, both on and off-line, about how the unconscious mind works and by accepting that whatever happens, its ultimately my own responsibility. This helped me to find, and finally start to enjoy a new job in human resources and training.  HR and training had been my career path since university and although I loved the subject and was well qualified in it, had hated the work, until I started to use this new information to my advantage. Suddenly, a whole new world began to open up before me.

Then I realised that maybe after 18 years in the profession it was time for a change. By this time I knew that I wanted my own business, help people sort out their own lives, have a career that involved training, learn more about holistic therapies and I wanted to be able to work smarter rather than harder so that I had more time with family and friends. This was to be the basis of my new vision for the future. 

Having that in mind I chose my new path which was to train through one of the best life coaching courses in the country.  With a lot of focus, self belief and determination to succeed I became a fully qualified, professional life coach with a range of diverse clients through my door who I’d helped towards better careers and achieving their dreams or dealing with problems such as poor confidence, negative body image and procrastination. This meant I was not so much leaving behind my earlier profession, but combining it with my new skills and knowledge to become the best career management coach possible.

Things are very different now ...

Since then I have worked with a wide range of clients on a one-to-one basis from dancers and writers to managers and senior executives of blue-chip companies. 

With my help they discovered how to:

• Put together a career plan from graduation to retirement
• Get into the right mindset to achieve success at work or in business
• Address limiting beliefs that hold them back
• How to enjoy being at work and be amazing at it, even if the job itself is awful
• Build rapport with colleagues and bosses to get what they want without conflict
• Practice the negotiating and sales techniques to get a pay rise or promotion
• Know when they have achieved everything they can in their current role and when its time to move on
• Get their CV polished and create a faill-proof job-search strategy
• Take appropriate action to make it all happen
• Be a real power networker and take advantage of social skills for career advancement
• Put things right at work if they go wrong
• Build a store-house of resources with career boosting information
• Be a super-candidate with fantastic interview and selection activity skills
• Have amazing confidence and self-belief
• Set up their own business and be their own boss instead

Working one to one with my clients is my main passion but I want to reach more people.  In addition to running freelance training courses in soft management and HR skills I’m also busy sourcing and writing new resources for anyone who wants to improve their career whether they are the janitor of a local community centre or the Director of a multi-national blue chip company.  I’ve got the connections, the networks, the knowledge, the experience and the resources to get you on track to the career you truly deserve. Working with me as your coach will help you to achieve your goals in record time and in the most enjoyable and easy way possible. 

I help my clients to know when the time is right to move on, or when its time to stand their ground and go for a pay rise or promotion I help them through the process. Now that I’ve figured out the way to have the glorious career of my dreams so that I wake up every day dying to get to work, I want to help others to experience the same freedom from the daily grind. 

Oh, and incidentally, about that relationship issue .... 

The moment I recognised my limiting belief about what or who I deserved or didn't deserve, things started to change.  I realised that I had to take full and absolute responsibility for what happened to me from day one. It was a suprisingly liberating experience because for the first time in my life I was in control of my own destiny.  

Within just a few days of fully accepting this new way of thinking I had met the man of my dreams.  Better still, he had met the woman of his dreams - me!  Mike and I were married on 27 May 2006 in Edinburgh have been blissfully happy ever since.   

OK, so you may be wondering what this has to do with career building.  Well, in some ways not much - I just like to tell the story as an example of what can be done once you change your thinking towards a situation.  It works just the same for your career as it does with any other aspect of your life. 

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