Seven Life Tools to Get You Through Difficult Times for (See also Seven Life Tools to Get You Through Difficult Times)
Adjust Your Perception (Tool 1)
Altruism
American Review of Public Administration
Angelou, Maya
Anger, detaching from
Apple
Assessment
of current career
for determining career interest
standing out and
of strengths
B
Barriers
external
internal
overcoming
overview
Behavior, motivation and
Best Job Ever
defining
expectations for
secret of
See also Action; Boredom; Career change; Career Plan; Compensation; Current Job; Fear of change; “Rich”; Seven Tools to Get You Through Difficult Times; Try-before-you-buy scenario
Big “Why?,” The (Career Plan Step 5)
Boredom
causes of
changing careers/jobs and
finding meaning outside work environment
making change and
new experiences for overcoming
promotion or department change in response to
realistic expectations and
symptoms of
Bosses, dissatisfaction with
Bray, CK
British Psychology Society
Budgeting, for career change
C
Career, boredom with. See Boredom
Career change
for Best Job Ever
identifying reasons for
initiating
job search research for
making choice and taking action for
overcoming boredom
overcoming confusion about
personal assessment for
power of change
progressing toward
within same company
seeking information about
See also Action; Boredom; Career Plan; Compensation; Current job; Fear of change; “Rich”; Seven Life Tools to Get You Through Difficult Times; Try-before-you-buy scenario
Career Development Program (Prudential)
Career fear. See Fear of change
Career Plan
The Big “Why?” (step 5)
Discover Your Strengths (step 2)
goal setting for
Identify Both Personal and Professional Barriers to Your Success (step 7)
One-, Three-, and Five-Year Plan (step 4)
The Power of Work (step 8)
Return on Investment (step 9)
What Is Your Job? (step 1)
What Makes You Awesome at Work? (step 3)
Your Community (step 6)
Challenge, seeking
Choice, for career change
Choose to Act and Not Be Acted Upon (Tool 6)
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Comfort zone, as barrier
Company employment, planning for
Comparison, avoiding
Compensation
accountability and planning
changing careers for
feeling rich and
financial escape plan and
overview
planning and
savings and career change
Consulting
Contacts, making. See Networking
Contingency plans
adjusting perception
avoiding comparison
avoiding self-pity
being proactive
controlling emotion
focusing on controllable issues
handling pressure with grace
preparing for difficulty
Control Your Emotions (Tool 2)
Costco
Co-workers, frustration with
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Current job
advantages of working while seeking employment
best aspects of
changing aspects of
job responsibilities of
negotiable aspects of
try-before-you-buy scenario
worst aspects of
D
Department change, boredom and
“Despite”
DiSC (personality test)
Discover Your Strengths (Career Plan Step 2)
Dissatisfaction, with job. See Job satisfaction
Don't Allow Self-Pity (Tool 5)
Don't Compare (Tool 4)
Doubt, as barrier
DrCKBray.com
Dream job
defining
expectations for
secret of
E
Emotion
controlling
detaching from
feelings about being rich
Excellence
feedback about
importance of
mastering skills for
overview
promoting
Excuses
reasons for
results and problems of
types of
Expectations
as barrier
career boredom and
External barriers
identifying and listing
overcoming
types of
See also Barriers
External influence, career change due to
F
Failure, trying and
Fear of change
identifying fear
making excuses and
overcoming fear
overview
reaction to
symptoms of
taking action in spite of fear
understanding fear
Feedback
to assess strengths
excellence and
Fight-or-flight response
Financial issues. See Compensation
Flexibility, changing careers and
Flexjobs.com
“Fly-by”
Focus
Focus on What You Can Control (Tool 3)
lack of
need for
G
Gallup
Goal setting
assessing current career for
career strategy and
defining Best Ever career for
one-, three-, and five-year plans
overview
Goodson, Woody
Grace, under pressure
H
“Hackathons”
Have Grace Under Pressure (Tool 7)
Helplessness, feelings of
“High-spider-fearfuls”
Hobby, career versus
Holmes, Thomas
I
Identify Both Personal and Professional Barriers to Your Success (Career Plan Step 7)
“I don't know what to do” problem, of career development. See Career change
Information gathering, for career change
Internal barriers
identifying and listing
overcoming
overview
types of
See also Barriers
Internal politics
Introductions. See also Networking
iTunes (Apple)
J
Job responsibilities
of current job
planning for
Jobs, Steve
Job satisfaction
advantages of working while seeking employment
assessing current job and
boss (managers) and
co-workers and
creating success by working
enjoying work versus job
feeling overworked or undervalued
internal politics and
overview
prioritizing Career Plan for
salary and
Job skills. See Skills
Joyce, Amy
L
Langley, Samuel Pierpont
Lottery, fantasies about
M
Management jobs, planning for
Managers, dissatisfaction with
Market segment, perfect job for
Mastery-induced passion
MBTI (personality test)
Meaning, finding
Moonlighting
Motivation
self-handicapping and making excuses
understanding
N
Networking
benefits of
discussing career options with friends and contacts
expanding network
fear of
to learn about new career
to overcome career boredom
overview
tips for
O
O'Brien, William F.
Odeo
Olympic Games (1996, Atlanta)
One-, Three-, and Five-Year Plan (Career Plan Step 4)
Opiyo, Benard Didacus
Organizational culture, career boredom and
Overworked, feeling
P
Part-time work
Passion
changing aspects of current job
enticement of follow-your-passion jobs
identifying best aspects of current job
identifying negotiable aspects of current job
identifying worst aspects of current job
obstacles to follow-your-passion jobs
overview
Pay scale, dissatisfaction with
Perception
Performance reviews, analyzing
Personality testing
Philanthropy
Pie-in-the-sky thinking, about goals
Planning
compensation and
determining role and
for difficulty (See Seven Life Tools to Get You Through Difficult Times)
managing employees versus working individually
overview
for self-employment versus company employment
for training and education
Politics, in workplace
Power of Work, The (Career Plan Step 8)
Preparation, for advancing career
Prioritization, being rich and. See also “Rich”
Promotion, seeking
Prudential
R
Rahe, Richard
Rath, Tom
Rescue fantasy
Return on Investment (Career Plan Step 9)
“Rich”
defining
feelings about
money and (See also Compensation)
overview
time and
values and
“Right” time, waiting for
Risk, taking
Ross, Laurian
Ross, Percy
S
Salary, dissatisfaction with
Sam's Club
Self-employment, planning for
Self-handicapping, with excuses
Self-marketing
Self-pity, avoiding
Seven Life Tools to Get You Through Difficult Times
Adjust Your Perception
Choose to Act and Not Be Acted Upon
Control Your Emotions
Don't Allow Self-Pity
Don't Compare
Focus on What You Can Control
Have Grace Under Pressure
overview
taking action with
Shyness, overcoming
Skills
assessment of
mastering
planning for
transferability of
Snagajob.com
Social media, for networking
State of the Global Workplace (Gallup)
Stimulation, seeking
Strength Finders 2.0
Strengths
building
comparing job responsibilities and
defined
identifying
overview
Strengths Test 2.0
Strug, Kerri
Stuck, feeling
Success, sharing
Supervising roles, planning for
T
“Thanks a Million” (Ross)
Time, being rich and
“Toxic” work environment
Training
planning for
taking classes in new career area
Try-before-you-buy scenario
changing careers for wrong reasons
defined
overview
prospective careers and jobs
seeking information about new career
Twitter
U
Undervalued, feeling
University of West Florida
Uradi (Kenya) Girls High School
V
Values. See also “Rich”
Vocation vacation
Vodanovich, Stephen
W
Washington Post
Wealth. See “Rich”
“What Do I Value and What Matters the Most to Me? (list). See also “Rich”
What Is Your Job? (Career Plan Step 1)
What Makes You Awesome at Work? (Career Plan Step 3)