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Director of Excelerated Performance International and lifelong 'Learning Engineer' - I help people get good at their jobs fast; It's my ideal career. I determined this from a process years ago similar to the Great Career Escape process.

But there was a missing link in my work; People just don't generally get that good at their jobs when they're in the wrong job or career. I realised that people need to align themselves with the right career first - one that they believe in, that uses their skills, talents, strengths, interests and one that enables the lifestyle they want too. Oh, and one that pays them what they want to earn as well.

So I set up The Great Career Escape to help people get that right. These blog posts compliment the full process. Make sure you sign up to the RSS or Twitter feed.

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Progress Your Career by Acting Like You Run Your Own Business

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I regularly promote the idea that you already run your own business even if you're employed. (Congratulations? Maybe you've always wanted to? Oh, and good luck!) The laws and principals of business apply to you in your career whether you acknowledge them or not. They're like gravity. You can accept them, learn about them and use them to your advantage, or forget about them and be at the mercy of them. Your choice.

The sooner you accept them, the sooner you can take charge of where you want to go, where you're actually going, what and how you'll earn, and who you'll work with. And what challenges and frustrations you're prepared to take on in your career because you enjoy overcoming such challenges, and you're good at it. What a great opportunity to kiss goodbye to the challenges and frustrations that suck the life out of you!

Since you run a business, in my work and blog posts I aim to connect you to business ideas, examples and lessons that you can apply to your own career. I like to help you look at your career through this new lens so you can make progress faster, more easily and more enjoyably. Ultimately I want to help you learn how to earn an enjoyable living.

If you know of anyone who would like to follow my posts, or think that more people could use this way of thinking, then please email this post on (or share it on your social networks). Thanks.


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If you're unsure what 'business' to get in to, my online e-course The Great Career Escape may help. You can sign up for free. It helps you choose the right business (aka your 'ideal career'). There's also a Facebook page for it here.

If you're interested in the learning and performance side of your business (the engine to your career performance and results) then make sure you're subscribed to this blog (the one you're currently reading), by email or RSS feed and you may also be interested in my site on self-directed learning and performance here. If you know of anyone who deals with learning and performance of their teams or organisation, then please refer this on.

If you want to follow me on Twitter, you can do so here.

And if you have any specific questions for me, please get in touch via the comments below, email, or via Twitter.

On Wednesday I'll send out a post on 'How to Blog Your Way in to a Job'.

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A Smart Start to the Right Career - in Seconds

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Don't pick a 'career'.

Pick a 'fight'.

What would you most like to fight and why?
What has annoyed, frustrated or challenged you for years above all else?
What's kept showing it's face to you, that you've always wanted to change, destroy, KO or conquer?
Who (or what) is the defending champion?
What would things be like once you've won the fight?
Who would pay you to win the fight?
Who would help you?

Perhaps that's what you should be earning a living doing?

My 10 challenges to you:

1. Determine your skills and strengths. Find your hardest 'punch' and lead with that.
2. Ensure that people will pay you to win this fight (and is it enough to live on? If not, pick another fight)
3. If you could build an army to help you, who would you recruit and why? Or is there an army out there you can join? Are they definitely fighting the same fight?
4. Who within the army would you be best placed to lead?
5. Where in the army would you be best placed?
6. How will you provoke the fight?
7. What will you do when the fight is on, and the defending champion (and the whole world) starts pushing back at you?
8. How will you win this fight? What's your strategy and tactics?
9. Don't be all talk. Roll your sleeves up, get on your feet and get on with it
10. You can do this one later: enjoy forever the pride you earned

You'll find securing work or employment in this area much easier, so long as you lead with your strengths and explain and prove your contribution to winning the fight. People will sense the fire in your belly, and they'll come to your aid (or get out your way). You'll enjoy a more rewarding living too.

Any questions you'd like to add to mine? Anyone got any ideas for an ideal career from this? Let us know in the comments below.

If you're still stuck anywhere in the process, checkout The Great Career Escape. It helps you through every stage. But it's not for wimps.

P.S. Who amongst those you know most needs this blog post? Who is crying out to put their career on track? Maybe you'd be happy to send it on to them?

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