Im So Busy. How Do I Shift With Such Limited Time

“I’m So Busy. How Do I Shift With Such Limited Time” Help from our Community “I’m So Busy. How Do I Shift With Such Limited Time?” * Maria's demotivated in her job and ready for a change. She's determined to carve out an exit strategy, but is also struggling to create space to explore her options. When time's tight, what's the most efficient way to focus your energy and make an actionable plan? What's your career history and current job? I've worked in landscape architecture since I graduated ten years ago. I've been on maternity leave for nearly four months. How do you feel about your work? I've felt dissatisfied and disconnected from my job for at least a couple of years. My career has been rewarding at times, and I've put a lot of effort into it, but I don't feel my heart's in it anymore. I've worked on some interesting projects with some of the best people in my industry. Mentoring younger members of the team and working directly with clients has been particularly rewarding, but there's not enough of that in the role. One of the main client bases for my profession is the private sector. The objectives of this sector feel far removed from those associated with my profession, which exists to create environments that serve people's needs as they live and work. So little of what I do feels like it's of benefit. In fact, the bulk of what I do is interacting with a computer screen! While I appreciate the skills I've developed in terms of putting architectural designs together, it's not something I want to do for the rest of my life. What would you like to be doing instead? I've faced a few challenges in the past few years, including losing my mum to cancer, which has changed my perspective about how I should spend my time. I'm compassionate, perceptive and understanding, and I'd like to do something more people orientated, with more face-to-face work. With my mum, I witnessed and experienced the difference that psychotherapy and alternative therapies such as reflexology and massage can have. I feel there would be a strong emotional connection if I pursued something like psychotherapy or similar as a career, because I'd be helping people. But with a new baby, I've not had the time to explore these ideas any further. Before I went on maternity leave, I went through a few years of psychotherapy and life coaching, which opened my eyes to exploring an alternative career. The main things that came up were the need for greater flexibility and control, given that I'm a parent now, and the fact that I need to do something where I feel my heart is in it. I still want to feel challenged and to use the skills I've developed as an architect but to do something that feels more commensurate with being a mum. What's the biggest obstacle in your way? I don't have much time to figure out which direction to shift in. I'm not sure how to pursue alternative therapy, what steps I'd need to take, the training involved, that sort of thing. I also don't know how to find other ideas that might fit the bill of what I'm looking for. But during the day, I have at most a couple of hours while my baby is sleeping. My available time and energy is so limited, it's hard to know how to spend it in the most productive way, and get answers to the questions I have. I've been reading lots of articles online, but that's about all I've had time for. I might have to return to my job after my maternity leave for a while to earn some money. If that's the case, I want to have a long-term plan about when I could move on, and where to. I feel strongly enough about this to take some action now, and yet, I just don't know how to make the best use of the small amount of time I have to get some real momentum going. How can I plan a shift when I have no time? Can you help Maria? Have you been in a similar situation, or are you in the same boat right now? How do you think Maria could move her shift forwards? Do you know anyone she could talk to? Share your thoughts in the comments below and click the thumbs-up button to show your support.

Power Adjectives For Resume Writing

Power Adjectives For Resume WritingPower adjectives for resume writing are becoming increasingly popular in the resume world. They have been used for quite some time to emphasize specific elements that make a person stand out. These can be added to your resume with relative ease, and they do a fantastic job at highlighting your skills and accomplishments. These power words will grab attention and give you an edge over your competition.Before adding these, you need to understand how they work in a resume. The most common way is to use them as words that end in 'ing'ing'. This can help illustrate your accomplishments, and it is also a good way to show off your skills in a particular area. You can also use them as part of your curriculum vitae, which is usually a list of skills and credentials.The use of these power adjectives for resume writing are just one element of the resume. They can be extremely helpful in a number of ways. For example, if you want to stand out from the crowd, yo u can take a look at your education and skills to find the best qualities. Then you can draw from this experience and use these.If you want to catch a recruiter's eye by emphasizing your writing and reading comprehension skills, these will help you a great deal. You can also highlight your communication and writing skills by including those as part of your list of achievements.These can be used to highlight specific skills you have, or perhaps put them in a form that highlights your previous experience. The point is that they can all be used to make your resume stand out from the rest. They are a very powerful tool in resume writing.The idea behind using power adjectives for resume writing is to highlight what youhave accomplished, whether it be in terms of what you have written or in terms of specific accomplishments. They can be used to emphasize your skills, your education, your achievements and everything else that make you unique. The more you can highlight these qualities the better.So if you are looking for an extra edge in the job hunt, consider using these. They can bring your resume to the top of the pile by highlighting all of your talents. They can highlight your skills that are not as common as others. These should be used as part of your overall resume writing package.Remember, these are powerful words, and if used correctly in your resume writing they can add a lot of strength and spark to your resume. Use them sparingly, but when they are included in your resume they will help you tremendously. Get creative and use them to bring your resume to the top of the pile.

5 Things I was wrong about

5 Things I was wrong about These will be small, okay? Because on the big stuff, like divorce is for losers, I am right. But here is some stuff I was wrong on: 1. Get plastic surgery. I said that people should get it because good looking people earn more money. But in fact, plastic surgery doesnt change what people think of you. If you were an 8 before surgery youre an 8 after. The human eye can subconsciously adjust maybe Im not sure what it is. But I talked to Gordon Patzer , author of Looks, on the phone, and he assured me this is true. So dont bother with the surgery. Just get botox so you dont look tired. 2. Certifications are stupid. I really really think certifications are stupid. I tell everyone to not get them. Just get a job doing whatever you were thinking of getting certified to do. But, it turns out that PayScale has research to show that human resource certifications help. I dont know what to make of this, except that LinkedIn has research to show that human resources attracts people who are most averse to risk. So it makes sense to me that people who are scared of risk would need to trust a certificate rather than their instincts when making a hiring decision. 3. You can increase your happiness by having sex twice a week. First of all, the number of weeks of my life I have done this is, I dont know, maybe six. I have never been a sexual dynamo, even though I want you to think I am great in bed. I have been writing for five years about how theres not a lot you can do to change your natural happiness set point, but having sex twice a week with the same partner can change that. It turns out though, not if your friends are having sex three times a week. So have more sex than your friends.  Because the key to feeling more happy from sex is to pick friends who openly gripe about how bad their sex life is. 4. Getting a PhD is stupid if you dont have a trust fund. I am starting to think that staying in school might be a good idea for people who never want to go into the business world. Look at it this way: If you ask the CEO of Google to stay home all day with kids, hell die. The same is true if you ask some people to go out into the work world: theyll die. Its just wrong for them. The values and the purpose are wrong. So why not take the people who will absolutely suck in the work world and let them stay in school until they get married? Then they can have kids and that can be their job. (Preemptive strike: Dont tell me its not safe for someone to be totally dependent on their spouse. We are all totally dependent on a spouse when we have kids with that person. We are a team. You never get out of being that team with that person.) 5. Dont have a crazy commute. I have reported all the research about how bad commutes ruin your life. For example if you are grouchy in the car, you will make your coworkers grounchy (or family, depending on which end of the commute youre on). Ive shown research that for every fifteen minutes of your commute, you lose one friend. And Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert shows in Stumbling on Happiness that commutes through heavy traffic are actually harder for us to adjust to than losing an arm. (The missing arm is predictable and bad traffic is not.) But it turns out that a predictable-but-long commute is okay. And, most people are doing that type of commute in order to have a stay at home spouse, which is a huge factor in keeping a marriage together.  So those long, predictable commutes are just fine if the benefit is an intact family. The people who are wrong the most are the most confident and decisive. Sharon Begley writes in the Daily Beast that style affects what we listen to, and we listen to people who are boisterous and outspoken and largely wrong. Of course this is ironic since the Daily Beast is known for this type of punditry. Psychologist Philip Tetlock studies pundits, and in an interview for Wired magazine  he said, Experts with the more eclectic, self-critical, and modest cognitive styles tended to outperform the big-idea people. Which is why Im posting eclectic photos of The Little Prince in braille and the spoon chandelier hanging in my house. The real reason I dont mind being wrong is that you cant ever be right in a way that matters if youre never wrong. Think about it: if you are right on something where everyone knows youre right then it doesnt matter that youre right. If you are right about something where people think its surprising, then you take a risk of being wrong but you also open yourself up to the joy of surprising yourself with your own insight. Its a risk high performers are willing to take.

How to Increase Your Facebook Engagement - Classy Career Girl

How to Increase Your Facebook Engagement Sometimes it feels like Facebook is a ghost town and its so hard to get engagement!! And who wants to pay a ton of money for ads right? This podcast will guide you through what you need to know to increase your facebook engagement without spending money on Facebook Ads. Click play below or  right click here and save link as  to download or subscribe on iTunes  here on this link: If you are enjoying our podcast, please leave us a review on iTunes! It would mean the world. Thank you! How to Increase Your Facebook Engagement Sometimes it feels like Facebook is a ghost town and its so hard to get engagement!! And who wants to pay a ton of money for ads right? This podcast will guide you through what you need to know to increase your facebook engagement without spending money on Facebook Ads. A few months back I hired a virtual assistant to help me with social media. We have a lot of social media accounts going and I was having trouble running my business and all my social media accounts. I hired a virtual assistant to help me and one of her tasks was to take on posting to Facebook. We publish a new blog post every day so I wanted to make sure that the content got on Facebook. I showed her a model accounts I wanted her to follow. [RELATED: What Your 2017 Social Media Strategy Should Look Like] She did her job for a few months but eventually; we had to let her go for other reasons. I was pretty stuck at that point. When she quit it forced me to get back into Facebook engagement. It was a good thing because I know a lot of you want to delegate your social media too. Am I right? Instead, I encourage you to dive in. I went back and studied our Facebook engagement and looked at the engagement posts had received over the last three months of having my VA. She was doing what I told her to do posting links to blog articles. But, she was not paying attention to our insights. Nothing we were posting was doing well. We were just posting to blog articles over and over again. So I dove in and looked at our most popular posts over the years. I started posting more about my story and putting more of me back into the brand on Facebook. I started uploading more videos and doing more Facebook Lives. I tested quote photos and plain old text from blog articles pasted directly to Facebook. A few simple changes and our engagement quadrupled. You can’t delegate the learning process. This is your brand you are building and you can’t outsource brand building. You have to test and tweak and see what is going to work for you. See what people are responding to and do more of it. The Facebook Foundation 1. MINDSET How To Think Like Facebook What does Facebook want you to do when you are on Facebook? Facebook wants you to stay on Facebook. You leaving Facebook is not what they want. You need to understand this before we can go any farther. Facebook wants you to consume content directly on Facebook. Now that you know how Facebook thinks, let’s discuss what you should post knowing Facebook’s goal. Facebook is going to increase the engagement of your posts when you keep people on Facebook. The more type of content you post that encourages people to stay on Facebook the better. My prior VA was linking back to our blog articles over and over again. Facebook was not rewarding this because it takes people off of Facebook. No wonder our engagement stunk! Here are the activities you can do on Facebook that keep people on Facebook. Do more of these to increase engagement: Facebook Lives. Uploading video directly to Facebook (instead of linking to YouTube). Text (3-4 paragraphs to read) Questions that engage readers Quote images Personal photos Facebook groups and community building. Here’s another important mindset you need to have. The more people that are engaged (liking, commenting and sharing) your posts, the more Facebook will share your posts to others. If people have liked your quote photos, most likely they will also see the very next thing you post too. 2. ACTION â€" The First Step To Increase Engagement Your first step is dive into your insights. Look and see how your content is already doing. What is working? What is not working? Go to your insights on your business Facebook page. Click on reach and sort on your posts with the largest reach. What are the 5-10 most popular posts you have done? This is always surprising to me! My most popular posts are about online dating, getting out of debt and buying a home. These are topics that I don’t have products or courses around but they key is that it is engaging and my ideal clients like these topics! Whatever your best posts have been, try posting them again. 3. SHARE How To Know What To Post Would you share it? Every time I share anything on any social media platform, I ask myself this question. I will never post anything that doesn’t get my attention and isn’t something I would want to read and share. We also make sure that it is meaningful, encouraging and positive. I often see other stuff out there that is just not shareable. It’s better not to share anything than it is to share something that isn’t shareable. Quality is better than quantity because Facebook is monitoring your engagement. If you get more likes, they will show your posts to more people. It is important that people start interacting with your content, and then Facebook will show it to more people. Time and Consistency This is a long-term thing you are going to do. For the last 7 years, I have posted on my Facebook page consistently!! YES!! Even when I was in labor, posts were going out because I had pre-scheduled content. My friends thought I was posting on Facebook while I was in labor. Haha! Nothing happens overnight so just make posting on Facebook part of your daily routine.

Summary Writing of Resume

Summary Writing of ResumeSummary writing of resume is among the most important parts of resume writing. It should be effective, concise and easy to read. The introduction is a part of the resume that must be included in order to make the reader appreciate it.If you don't write your resume well and do not put what you really have into it, it won't convince someone to hire you. A very short introduction that has little or no content on it is a poor start to a resume. It only does one thing-sell you.Before you even begin to write your resume, you should make a list of all the people that might be hiring you. Do this by hand, taking notes of the first names, last names, department, position title, dates you might know them, etc. In doing this you will gain insight on who the employer may be.Then you should make your own summary. This is what you should focus on when writing your resume. You should incorporate all of your best qualifications and skills into your summary. You can make it b rief, specific, or long, it doesn't matter-just make it concise and understandable.Your work history is the second thing that you should include in your summary. Give an outline of how you got your job. Include details of your duties, qualifications, and certifications. You should include all of these things in your summary and go into detail about each.Next, focus on the skills that you possess and how you can be useful to the employer. You can provide examples of projects you completed, projects that you worked on, and actions that you took to help your team, so that they could accomplish their goals. Be sure to include your future plans and how you can help the employer in the future.After your summary is finished, provide references that back up your past achievements. Ask for the name of a reference from your previous employer. You can contact them later on and ask them for information on your former employer.Using this method, it is fairly easy to present your accomplishments from your past employer. Give this information to the employer in a way that shows you have knowledge of the company, and that you are able to contribute to its success.

3 Ways to Stop Collecting Unemployment Insurance

3 Ways to Stop Collecting Unemployment Insurance Its fun looking for a job, isnt it?!   You really enjoy claiming Unemployment Insurance every week too, right? You feel useful, productive and valued for your contributions.   There is nothing worse than what you are experiencing right now. Yet, it will not last forever. Use this time to figure out what you really want to do. Discover something you will enjoy doing. You can start off working one or two days a week.   If you work an assignment/job just 2 days a week,  in most cases you will still be able to claim 1/2 of your UI benefits.   (This varies by state and depends on how much you make those 2 days). Another option is to take a 2-3 week assignment doing something new or exciting.   You just wont claim UI  benefits that week.   You  dont lose any money really, it extends the term of you Unemployment Insurance (you still  have 12 months to use  it). Better yet, you could find a job in an other  area of the country and commute  home, taking you off Unemployment Insurance all together. The government has tried to help by offering Unemployment Insurance and increasing the length of time people can have access to it, however, what Ive seen is that this creates dilemmas you really want to work, doing anything, but you make more on unemployment than you would in  a minimum wage job.   Each day you are unemployed it  can become more difficult to  feel self-confident.   Sometimes you  begin to doubt your own abilities.   The  best  cure for these feelings  is to do something, anything and get paid for it.    It is amazing what this does for the spirit. Stretch your mind, think about creating new possibilities for yourself and see what happens!

Summary Sunday Networking

Summary Sunday Networking Managing your career is up to you.   Mostly, I believe it is about creating options for yourself.   Options are created by developing a professional reputation, knowing people, being found. You most likely are known for something in your current role.   How can you make sure that this reputation spreads beyond your current employer? Get noticed! Toot your own horn a bit. Participate on LinkedIn. There were many posts offering insights on how to better use this tool.   Here are some of the posts I shared on Twitter: 10 Awesome tips and tricks for LinkedIn you might not know from SimplyZesty Just Joining LinkedIn is Not Enough from Job-Hunt.org Networking Another valuable way of creating an awareness about you A Guide to Effective Networking from Elephants at Work Create and Control Your Reputation How to Create Your Personal Brand Story from YouBrand 3 Resources to Help Job Seekers Position Themselves as Experts from Reach Personal Branding Blog 5 Tips to Build Your Personal Brand with social media from Jeff Bullas