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Friday's Rocket Fuel: Personal Branding Exercise - Unique You friday rocket fuel personal branding personal development Jul 15, 2011

This weekend keep a paper and pen with you.  Write down everything you do or say that illustrates your unique way of doing things or saying things. At the end of the weekend look through all of the information you have collected. What are some of the themes?

Once you have this information,...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: Take a Break friday rocket fuel life Jun 10, 2011

When was the last time you did nothing? I mean just sat back and relaxed and did nothing. No Work. No TV. No Reading. No Talking. No Planning. Nothing. For some of you reading this that would be a hard challenge. You're so used to DOING you don't know how not to be doing anything.

Sure maybe you...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: List of of Each of Your GAILs friday rocket fuel personal development May 27, 2011

Spend sometime this weekend and identify one of each of your GAILs and write it down.

The act of writing your GAILs helps make them more real. It takes them from having a hold on your mind to putting them partly out side of you on the...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: Vision Your Success friday rocket fuel leadership development success vision statement May 20, 2011

If you want to be successful, one of the most power things you can do is invest some time in creating a clear vision or picture in your mind, and even literally make a picture, of what your successful life looks like. The more clear your vision is, the more you will consciously and...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: What Limiting Beliefs Are Holding You Back? friday rocket fuel personal development May 13, 2011

Have you ever had a belief like:

  • I'm too old to go back to school
  • I'm too shy
  • She/He would never go out with someone like me
  • You need to have a PhD to do that job
  • I'm not good at ...

These are all examples of Limiting Beliefs. What is a Limiting Belief?

Limiting Beliefs are ideas or principles...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: Write Your Ideal Job Description! career strategy friday rocket fuel jobs May 06, 2011

One way to differentiate yourself as well as propel yourself to success is to write a job description for your ideal job. Go ahead and write out all of the qualities of your ideal job. Make your job description as real as possible, including:

  • Job Title
  • Responsibilities
  • Corporate Culture
  • Salary...
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Friday's Rocket Fuel: Spring Cleaning Your Personal Brand friday rocket fuel personal branding Apr 15, 2011

It's spring time and for many people that includes an annual house cleaning ritual. While you're in to mood to clean, how about looking over your personal brand and the way you communicate it?

Start by asking yourself what your brand is. What is the message you want others to think of when they...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: Build Your Personal Brand with A Facebook Page friday rocket fuel personal branding social media Apr 08, 2011

Do you have a Facebook page yet?  Not your personal profile, a page.

Use a Facebook page to manage your professional life and personal brand on Facebook. On your page you can post items of interest to the people you do business with whether they are customers or staff. And...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: The One Habit Factor Key to Success career development friday rocket fuel goal achievement tips vision statement Apr 01, 2011

How close to your definition of career success are you? Do you know what's holding you back? One of the biggest barriers to career success is that there is such a big difference in who we are today and who we want to be that we end up not taking action. The good news is that over time you can...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: LinkedIn & Personal Branding Your Profile friday rocket fuel networking personal branding social media tips Mar 25, 2011

LinkedIn is a powerful networking, job search, business enhancing and career development tool. Having an effective LinkedIn profile is the first and most critical step in taking advantage of this resource. One of the most power aspects of LinkedIn is that it allows you to be found by people who...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: Adaptability Is The Key to Career Success career development friday rocket fuel personal development Mar 18, 2011

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

These words spoken by Charles Darwin are especially applicable in the work world today. Change is happening more rapidly than ever. Job that have...

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Friday's Rocket Fuel: What Do You Want to Be Known For? career development friday rocket fuel personal branding Mar 11, 2011

 

Without giving this much thought and refraining from censoring yourself, answer this question:  

When someone thinks of you, what is the first thing that you would like to come to their mind?

Regardless of whether this answer was about your personality, character, work, etc....

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