Career Inspiration: Inspirational Writing

By Sab

Hi there,

This week I’ll be sharing inspiring articles with you to help you on your way to career change, rather than examples of other peoples changes. There is a lot of generic ‘advice’ online to do with changing careers, a lot of it is mostly practical and seemingly aimed at people who want a conventional career path. So I wanted to share some inspirational writing that I hope will help you see things differently, think about careers and choices differently, and get you feeling revved up to get the career and life you really want.

Inspirational links

Our very own Marianne Cantwell (who gives our CareerShifters workshops with Marc Jerrard) posts a short but very very sweet blogpost about going for gold
http://www.free-range-humans.com/advice/outofyourleague/

John Williams (who was with us at the Vitality Show this year) has a book coming out in June, and if you go to his website you can download the brilliant first chapter for free, woohoo!
http://www.screwworkletsplay.com/

One of our own career shifters, Donna, alerted me to these great downloads. I would wholeheartedly recommend the ‘7 steps to playing a much bigger game’ download
http://www.thelaunchcoach.com/library

If you’re umming and aahing over the ‘perfect’ career or can’t decide what to do about any aspect of your life, check out my new article ‘Deliberation is Immobilisation’
http://www.careershifters.org/node/1383


Til next time,

Sab
 


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