Mid-Life Career Rescue: The Call For Change 2018: Midlife Career Rescue, #4
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Practical, inspiring and empowering tips and strategies every job hunter and career changer needs to know
Are you showing signs of job dissatisfaction? Did you wake up this morning excited to face the day ahead? Or did the thought of getting up and going to work make you wish you could stay in bed? If Monday mornings are a low point in your week, it may be a sign that it's time for a new career.
Often you know what you want subconsciously before you know it consciously. While you may still be debating whether or not to stay in your job, your subconscious mind may have already decided it's time for you to move on. The trouble is, you may not know what to do. You may be like so many career changers who say, "I could do anything if only I knew what it was."
Perhaps your job is making you sick. Common signs of neglecting your happiness and feeling trapped in a job that you don't enjoy can include:
• Headaches
• Insomnia
• Tiredness
• Depression
• Low self-esteem
• Lack of confidence
• Irritability and other warning signs.
It's not surprising you may be struggling to get the energy or confidence needed to successfully find a new job or make a career change.
Mid-Life Career Rescue: The Call for Change will help take the stress out of making a change, confirm your best-fit career and give you the confidence to move toward your preferred future.
Whether you're wanting to make a mid-life career change, proactively looking for new and more fulfilling ways of working and earning a living, job-hunting after job loss, or hoping to fall back in love with a job that you've come to hate, this book comes to the rescue. Career expert Cassandra Gaisford shares inspiring and practical career-change and job-hunting tips and strategies, she's used successfully herself and with clients.
Mid-Life Career Rescue will help you:
* Discover a job you love
* Boost confidence, courage, and self-esteem
* Flame the embers of inspiration and passion
* Identify areas of strength
* Overcome stress and doubt
* Break free from a job you hate
* Work with your passion
Whether you love the idea of the 4-hour workweek, want to find a job that reflects who you are and what's important to you, or thinking about starting a business, changing careers and finding a new job can be yours.
As Richard N Bolles, author of 'What Colour Is Your Parachute', once said to me, "sometimes all it takes is one book, one sentence to transform your life."
Quit feeling trapped. Reclaim your power! Find a job you love and finally live the life you want. Scroll up and click "Buy Now" before it's too late.
The strategies in this book will also help job-hunters in their 20s, 30s or 40s successfully change careers.
Cassandra Gaisford
Cassandra Gaisford, is a holistic psychologist, award-winning artist, and #1 bestselling author. A corporate escapee, she now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. Cassandra is best known for the passionate call to redefine what it means to be successful in today’s world. She is a well-known expert in the area of success, passion, purpose and transformational business, career and life change, and is regularly sought after as a keynote speaker, and by media seeking an expert opinion on career and personal development issues. Cassandra has also contributed to international publications and been interviewed on national radio and television in New Zealand and America. She has a proven-track record of success helping people find savvy ways to boost their finances, change careers, build a business or become a solopreneur—on a shoestring. Cassandra’s unique blend of business experience and qualifications (BCA, Dip Pych.), creative skills, and well-ness and holistic training (Dip Counselling, Reiki Master Teacher) blends pragmatism and commercial savvy with rare and unique insight and out-of-the-box-thinking for anyone wanting to achieve an extraordinary life.
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Mid-Life Career Rescue - Cassandra Gaisford
Mid-Life Career Rescue: The Call for Change 2018
How to confidently Leave a Job You Hate and Start Living a Life You Love, Before It’s Too Late
Cassandra Gaisford
Blue Giraffe PublishingContents
Praise for Mid-Life Career Rescue Series
Freedom
Foreword
Author’s Note
Introduction
About This Book
Self-Assessment Quiz
I. UNHAPPINESS AT WORK
Job Dissatisfaction
Dissatisfaction Quiz
What You’ve Learned So Far
II. THE GIFT OF LONGEVITY
The Changing World of Work
What You’ve Learned So Far
III. STRESS LESS
Bounce Back From Stress
Signs and Symptoms
Stress-Busting and Building Resilience
The Self-Care Quiz
Your Stress-Busting Plan Plan
What You’ve Learned So Far
IV. IT ALL BEGINS WITH AN IDEA
Create The Work You Love
Get Creative—Dream And Explore
Overcome Obstacles
What You’ve Learned So Far
Your Point of Brilliance
The Ready To Quit Quizz
Afterword
Free Workbook!
Also by Cassandra Gaisford
Follow Your Passion to Prosperity Online Course
Further Resources
About the Author
Please Leave A Review
Stay In Touch
Acknowledgments
Copyright
Excerpt: How to Find Your Passion and Purpose
Praise for How to Find Your Passion and Purpose
Author's Note
Introduction
Step 1: The Call For Passion
1. What Is Passion?
2. Passion For All
Step 4: Live Your Passion!
1. Daily Tonic
2. Living In The Passion Zone
3. Fear Of Failure
4. Fear Of Success
5. Fear Of Change
6. Fear Of Disappointment
7. Allow No Doubt
8. Visualize Your Preferred Future
9. Make A Passion Action Plan
10. Send Your Critics Away
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Praise for Mid-Life Career Rescue Series
More and more people today, either through choice or necessity, are looking for new and more fulfilling ways of working and earning their livings. Old ways are breaking down. Today, sacrificing your deeper passions for the security of a paycheck is no guarantee of security. Following your heart and deeper self is the new security. In this book, Cassandra helps you find your work, inspiring you to consider new possibilities, gently guiding you beyond limiting thinking, and helping you find your own true self and authentic work.
~ Nick Williams, Author of The Work We Were Born to Do: Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do
Stop. Don't leave your job and start a business until you've read this book. I was pleased to see Cassandra tackle the real challenges starting a business poses. Things like finding the right business, how to start with little or no money, and how to leverage it to create a great lifestyle, to name a few. If you get to a stage in your life where you want to leave your job and start a business, this book will help you. Each chapter focuses on one highly practical aspect of starting your own business.
~ Barry Watson, Author of #1 best-seller Relationship Rehab
This book has given me another kick up the bum, to write it all down, work from the end result backward, envisage the 'as if' and build the staircase I need to climb.
~ Cate Walker, 5-Star Review
Makes you think and offers strategies to make it work! I met Cassandra about 17 years ago after being made redundant—the advice she gave me and the challenges she threw at me even then have remained in my psyche and continue to give me motivation. So reading her books it's easy to hear her voice, continuing on with that motivation. I usually skip reading other people's stories as many of them don't translate to real life for me. But many in this book resonated, in particular, the opportunity that I have to follow not just one passion, but I can follow all three, and make them work! With ageism alive and well, I've had so many rejections for job opportunities that it's a matter of survival that you have to tread your own path—find opportunities for yourself. This book has given me the confidence that I CAN make it work.
~ L.A. Brown, 5-Star Review
The tiny, brilliantly colorful hummingbird
symbolizes the messages in this book.
This versatile soul, despite its size,
is capable of unbelievable feats.
It can hover in mid-air, fly forwards, backwards,
side-ways, and even upside down.
Its rapidly beating wings can flap as high as 200 times per second,
enabling it to travel faster than a car.
The laws of physics say it should be impossible.
But the hummingbird does it anyway.
I dedicate this book to those of you
who are ready to live a life more colorful,
and to do what others may say cannot be done.
This book is also for Lorenzo, my Templar Knight,
who encourages and supports me
to make my dreams possible…
And for all my clients
who’ve shared their dreams with me,
and allowed me to help them achieve amazing feats.
Thank you
for inspiring me.
Freedom
When a bird gets free,
it does not go back for remnants
left on the bottom of the cage.
Rumi
Foreword
In June 2009, I was listening to Paul Potts, winner of the 2007 Britain’s Got Talent show, being interviewed by Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 on his Big Show. When Paul appeared on Britain’s Got Talent, he was working selling mobile phones, but astonished the judges and the audience with his incredible voice. He now tours the world wowing audiences with his voice.
Steve Wright asked Paul whether he loved singing as a child, or whether he came to singing in later life. Paul responded, Yes, I’d always loved singing when I was young.
So Steve then asked him why he ended up selling mobile phones rather than singing professionally. Paul answered by saying, No-one ever told me when I was growing up that something I loved could be a career.
Most of us can relate to that: doing something you love and then getting paid for it simply wasn’t a career option that we were aware of or encouraged into. Too many of us believe that work needs to be a relentless and life-long activity doing something we’d rather not be doing, but that we have little choice over. We just have to do it to survive. And, as long as we are not enjoying it, are suffering, bored, stressed or are sacrificing ourselves, then it is real work, and we deserve to be paid for it.
Too few of us have been brought up to believe that it is possible to make our living doing something we love, that lights our hearts up and stirs our passions. I call this the work we were born to do and is our true work. To find your true work is a great blessing, one of life’s greatest blessings I believe. And to be paid for your work rather than work for your pay is one of life’s great joys.
More and more people today, either through choice or necessity, are looking for new and more fulfilling ways of working and earning their livings. Old ways are breaking down. Today, sacrificing your deeper passions for the security of a pay-check is no guarantee of security. Following your heart and deeper self is the new security. Your heart is the well-spring of possibility and opportunity that will never run dry.
In this book, Cassandra helps you find your work, inspiring you to consider new possibilities, gently guiding you beyond limiting thinking, and helping you find your own true self and authentic work.
Those who have found what they were born to do have usually developed a generosity of spirit and want to hold a hand out to others who are still searching. In this book, Cassandra has done just that. Out of the blessings she has won for herself, she shares generously with you where to look, and what signposts to follow. She guides you to trust yourself to be able to bring your inner and outer worlds together, so that now you can make your living in a way that reflects who you are and what is precious to you. Enjoy this book and let it guide you to the work that is in your heart to do.
—Nick Williams, Author of The Work We Were Born to Do: Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do
Author’s Note
All we need to make us really happy is something to be passionate about.
Cassandra Gaisford
Do you feel trapped in a job that pays the bills but fails to give you a buzz?
Do you yearn for something more from your work and your life but can’t see any alternatives?
Have you ever been told it is unrealistic to expect job satisfaction?
Are you feeling uninspired, lost and uncertain about what you can offer and how you might move forward?
Deep down do you feel you’re too old to change, or trapped by your current circumstances?
Perhaps you’re a mum returning to work, or you’ve been made redundant and looking for a new job.
Maybe you’re still trying to figure out what you want to be ‘when you grow up.’ Or how to make a meaningful contribution as you contemplate retirement.
Whatever your reasons for needing a rescue, you’re not alone.
Statistical research repeatedly confirms that well over half the workforce is unhappy, with Gallup’s 2015 poll revealing only 13 percent of employees worldwide are happily engaged at work.
Many people feel stuck because they can’t see any better options or don’t know how to deal with obstacles preventing them from finding their best-fit career. Others lack the confidence and energy to make a positive change. Many stay stuck in jobs that don’t fulfill them.
Perhaps you haven’t had the time to sit down and think consciously about your career choices. Maybe like many mid-lifers you ‘just fell into’ your work. Or perhaps, you’ve made your choices based on other people’s expectations.
I felt so unhappy at work once it made me sick, but I felt I had to make that job work or I’d be fired. I was a single mum, the only one able to support my young daughter and myself. I used to go home with a brave face, but inside I was tired and depressed. My self-esteem was so low I thought no one would hire me. I tried to go to work, grit my teeth and bear it.
I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. But that wasn’t what my boss wanted from me. You could make a lot of money here,
he said. You just need to be more selfish.
For a while, I tried to be someone else—motivated only by money, but every day my values were compromised, and the skills I loved weren’t used.
My