October 23, 2024 – JOLT – Are you moving at the speed of pain?
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If Pain Pushes Until Vision Pulls, Is It Time to Vision Up?
I recently heard someone say “I move at the speed of pain.”
It’s a sad but true comment on how, as humans, we tend to only move forward when we can absolutely no longer remain where we are:
- Our spouse or partner says, after many signs, that the gig is up and it’s over.
- The doctor’s diagnosis is that, if we continue doing what we’re doing (or not doing what we’re not doing), our health and life ahead is questionable.
- We go into work one morning and are shuffled unexpectedly into a room with our senior executive manager and the company’s chief people officer to be let go.
Over the years when I would participate in such massive corporate layoffs — as the helpful career guide waiting in a separate room to meet them after that layoff — I’d be amazed at how much folks had been paralyzed in pain.
Upon offering tissues to those noticeable caught off guard and upset at the news, I’d ask “So, did you ever consider that there may be a future for you outside of [X company]?”
Many would reply, while wiping away tears or blowing their nose, “Oh sure. I’ve been wanting to get out of here for years!”
Yet, here they sat, completely at the effect of their career movement rather than in charge of and causing it. A victim to the capricious and impersonal nature of corporate entities looking out for their own welfare.
Why aren’t professionals constantly looking out for their own welfare?
Because they don’t treat themselves like a business. They have an employee mindset vs a business owner mindset.
If you weren’t aware, let me break it to you gently, before you may one day learn it the hard way:
You OWN your own business. You always have. You simply lease out your employable assets.
And one thing any business owner must always do is constantly be on the lookout for the highest ROI while directing their resources in those directions.
What is a higher ROI? Of course, more compensation or benefits is often the case, but there are many other factors, depending on the person:
- Better work culture or management vision
- Work hours, location, and hybrid/virtual options
- A role more aligned with one’s passions
- Opportunities to expand in influence and/or responsibilities
- Opportunities to move back into former responsibilities one now misses
So, your AI (Aspiration Intelligence) enhanced challenge between now and New Years Eve, should you choose to accept it, is to take all of the factors mentioned above and create a VISION around them now!
Spend 15min per day simply sitting in quiet rumination of those ideas and, when your attention is more focused on your VISION vs your accepted and seemingly bearable pain, you’ll find yourself taking actions you would have never imagined.
One might be to talk with a career coach.
Think differently, play better.
Radically,
Darrell
CareerGuy and Back Forty Freedom Flier
P.S. Want to explore how pain can be pointed toward a passionate and purposeful career? Attend the upcoming CareerGuy Passion & Purpose Breakout!
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October 2, 2024 – JOLT – Toilet Paper, Port Strikes & Human Connectibility
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Answering Threats of Automation, AI and Empty Toilet Paper Shelves
The (m)asses are in charge.
It seems when uncertainty of a certain level occurs in modern times, the backside takes priority.
The port strikes initiated yesterday on the East and Gulf Coasts has toilet paper rolling off the shelves.
For sure, there’s reason to be concerned, as prices on everything moving through ports will undoubtedly increase, just in time for multipe end-of-year holidays.
There’s also reason to take note of the underlying issue at the heart of port workers’ demands: preventing automation from taking their jobs.
Now, I’m no economist, but I am a career tactician. And the undeniable truth is that, in “Night of the Living Dead” fashion, “they’re coming to get you Barbara.”
AI and all forms of automation are encroaching at an increasing pace. It might be delayed, but it won’t be stopped.
Here are just a few fun facts:
- 39% of HR managers currently use AI in the hiring process
- Not only can AI create an indepth profile of how you act and think based on your resume, but it can analyze a video interview and provide a hiring manager with a complete personality profile of you even before you speak with them (ye-bye Myers-Briggs and DISC!)
- A summer survey of US firms showed that 60% of them plan to incorporate AI within the next year to automate jobs that people now do.
- A similar 2020/2021 implementation of automation at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles (in my backyard) eliminated 572 full-time jobs.
So, what’s the answer? Usually in those zombie movies, after all the exhaustive fighting, humans prevail. But this isn’t a movie, and AI/automation will no doubt win.
However, in whatever quiver of career skills you’ve developed thus far, there’s a very special one that will always keep you above the Matrix of machinery nipping at your heels.
That mostly unmastered and undeveloped skill is Human Connection.
I like to call it Human Connectibility.
- Human Connectibility has you rise above the mass of lemmings submitting on LinkedIn when 100 have already applied before you.
- Human Connectibility has you able to reach through cyber zaps to have people actually get to know you vs bots simply scrolling you.
- Human Connectibility has you pierce into hidden circles of publicly unknown leadership opportunities vs being relegated to Big Brother public lists of open positions clawed at by throngs of job seekers
- Human Connectibility creates bonds with folks whom YOU proactively choose to bring into your career consciousness (and you into theirs) vs being on the reactive side of simply hoping to hear from somebody, anybody you’ve applied to.
- Human Connectibility ensures your value as irreplaceble while so many other less skilled professionals fall into AI obsolesence
The old saying, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” applies here.
You can kvetch all you want about the AI/automation annexation of your career life, OR you can become a dedicated student of Human Connectibility which, once mastered, becomes a skill machines will never replace.
So, your AI (Aspiration Intelligence) enhanced mission, should you choose to accept it, is to begin learning the career skill of Human Connectibility to ensure your own life, liberty and pursuit of happy career.
Think differently, play better.
Radically,
Darrell
CareerGuy and Back Forty Freedom Flier
P.S. Want to explore how Human Connectibility shapes a passionate and purposeful career? Attend the upcoming CareerGuy Passion & Purpose Breakout!
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August 28, 2024 – JOLT – Fall (don’t stumble or meander) Into Your Career Value
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The Fall Theme: Have them Falling For You and All Over You
Landing your next dream job role is most fun when you don’t have to “land” anything at all, right?
Way more fun to have it fall in your lap.
“But,” you say, “how do I get the world of work to fall in line with that scenario? How do I become the leader organizations will fall head over heels for?”
First, you have to awaken from the spell you’ve fallen under that your career is something to think about only intermittently, only when you’ve either fallen out of grace or love with your current role, or you’re the fall guy/gal for the company when things are in free fall.
That’s what I call circumstantial career management, and it has you fall short of your potential, again and again.
You don’t manage your health or your relationship with your spouse that way do you? (If the answer is yes, I recommend you make some wholesale changes across the board.)
Healthy career management efforts are like regular gym visits or date nights: if they fall off the radar, you’re surely in for a fall.
Don’t ever fall asleep at the wheel thinking that you’re simply an “employee” of someone/something outside of yourself.
No, you own your own “business” and always have. You simply lease out your employable assets.
So, you want those assets always well defined and your availability for the right opportunities well known.
You won’t fall for every opportunity that comes knocking, and for sure you don’t want to appear needy. (Neediness weakens your value.)
But even happy as a lark in what you’re now doing, the movie “Indecent Proposal” proved that we all have a price.
And you can only fall into the sights of those with indecent proposals when you refuse to fall out of touch with those who’d be in a position to make you those “offers you can’t refuse.”
The point is: you have to be out there, getting known, being known, and knowing those you’d be smart to know so that you fall into the line of hire when special, unknown and hidden sweetheart opportunities are to be offered to someone. Why not you?
1. Fall into line in who you are.
2. Strategically fall into the mind of others on a regular and ongoing basis.
And you’ll find yourself being chased, because “relationships” is where everything falls into place.
So, your AI (Aspiration Intelligence) enhanced mission this fall, should you choose to accept it, is to fall in love enough with your dreams and aspirations that you make sure the world knows where your unique value chips fall. . .and they want them.
Think differently, play better.
Radically,
Darrell
CareerGuy and Back Forty Freedom Flier
P.S. Want some deeper insight into pointing your career more towards your dreams? Attend the upcoming CareerGuy Passion & Purpose Breakout!
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