Do I really want to be a “cube monkey” for the rest of my life?

Right now I am reading Reboot Your Career: 27 Ways to Reinvent Yourself in the Workplace…(If You Still Have a Job!) Peter Fogel really gets to the heart of the matter and uses humour to get his message across. What he has to say makes a lot of sense and I am really enjoying this read.

And…you can get bonus gifts if you order the newly released Kindle version! 

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Excerpt ~ Chapter 2 (pgs. 45 – 47)

Now that we’ve gotten all that uncomfortable, yet liberating, stuff out of the way, our next step is to figure out exactly what you actually want.

Let’s get back to the most important subject there is – YOU! And to do that we need to assess you and your present career.

Life and business continually throw us curves. Just like any new relationship, we sometimes go into a job thinking it’s exactly what we “thought” we wanted.

Fast forward a few years into it, and we start to feel like something is wrong. Something is missing.
You might ask yourself,

“Do I really want to be a cube monkey for the rest of my life?”

Then it happens. The thoughts start twirling in our head. This leads to us doing crazy things to “replace” whatever it is we think we’ve lost.”

Our spouses think we’re having a midlife crisis. Our bosses think we’re slacking off. We think we’re going a little nuts as we pop another Xanax to calm our frayed nerves.

Guess what? I’m here to tell you it isn’t as bad as all that. Look, if you’re starting to feel like your career is going to hell in a hand basket, here are a few things you can do.

Consult Your Inner Child!

First off, you need to digress for a moment. No really, I mean it. Digress! Now, turn back the clock. What did you want to be when you grew up? Maybe you wanted to be a doctor, a lawyer, a ballerina, cowboy, or a werewolf hunter/vampire slayer…

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…Anyway, psychologists call what I have just described “expectancy violation.” This twelve-dollar phrase happens when people decide to do something important in their lives – then fail to follow through with it.

If that is you, please don’t be hard on yourself. Certain circumstances might have prevented you from reaching a particular dream – family, unexpected illness, etc.

For a long time, I really wanted to leave show business, but like Al Pacino said in The Godfather, “Every time I try to get out…they just pull me back in!”

Let’s examine some particular “expectancy violations.” Perhaps, you wanted to write the great American novel and took up a career in teaching instead. To put it mildly, it’s as if you have defaulted on a contract with your subconscious mind, which can cause depression, restlessness, and feelings of inferiority.

Does this sound like anything you’ve gone through lately? (DING! DING!We have a winner!) If so, then I have the cure.

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Review by Scott L. ~ Very Helpful, Funny and Great Reading!

"I was searching for career self-help book and came across "Reboot Your Career!" Glad I did. Not only entertaining, but Fogel (The Author) knows how to get you to think about what you need to do to stand-out and get noticed at your job. It's about the marketing and about delivering value to your company and colleagues. Learn to do this and you'll accomplish your goals. This book shows you how jump over your competition! Great read with loads of humor!"

Here’s the deal!

Peter offers you his 4 in 1, Total Success Reinvention Package ($75 value) PLUS the WORK YOURSELF HAPPY e-manual. ($45 value) when you order his Kindle book. For around the world Kindle links
– click here!

Just shoot him at e-mail with your receipt # to reinventnow@yahoo.com

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*To learn more about this fabulous book and author,(& video) see previous posting.

If Not Now…Then When?

 

Ray Romano endorses If Not Now…Then When? I don’t know about you, but because I love Ray Romano, I take the time to look at it and I really like what I read. (See excerpt below)

“Peter Fogel’s If Not Now… Then When? is not only a book that’ll make
you smile with its humor and heart, but will also inspire and show you
how other ‘over 40’ folks took control of their own destiny and created a
life of meaning through their reinvention. It’s a worthwhile book, and
that’s coming from someone who doesn’t like to read.” –
~Ray Romano - Everybody Loves Raymond

Excerpt - Preface (Kindle Locations 237-264)

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot

Reinvention: 1) to make as if for the first time something already invented, 2) to remake or redo completely, 3) to bring into use again

I’m going to be up front with you right now: I wrote this book for a special person. Me. And who’s more special than me? Answer: You. Yes, you. And you’re not being selfish, feeling that way. Because in the long run, if you don’t take care of “you” first, then you won’t really be able to give to others. Ever wonder if on one occasion during her life, the selfless Mother Theresa ever contemplated, herself, just once? “Gheez, Louise,” I can hear her saying now. “What about my needs? Don’t I count?”

Now, I don’t know you personally, but I’m figuring that we both might have some things in common. We both have probably had to deal with the same type of people over the years and have “jumped through the same hoops” in our professional lives. I mean, isn’t it true that for as long as you can remember, you’ve had to answer to “others,” please “everyone else,” and make “all of them” happy?

And “them” usually referred to some committee you were on, right? Where do committees always gather? In meetings … where nothing has been accomplished— except perhaps a promise to gather again for another meeting to discuss what wasn’t accomplished at the first one.

During this “meeting” in this conference room—you sneak a peek across the street, at the children in the park, and you’re thinking, “I want to be playing with those kids on this sunny day.” (Sigh.)

And then you vent your frustrations with your internal dialogue:

“That’s it. I can’t take it any longer. I am out-of-here. You hear me, ‘self?’ I am outta here! They’re not going to have me around any longer as their friggin piñata! God, I hate this office and that plant! I have to get rid of that plant! Arrgh!”

Years go by and you’re still in the same position, the same meetings. Worst of all, the plant is still there. Nothing changes, does it? But now you’re at that defining moment. If there was a gauge attached to your happiness, that dial would be pointed to the part that reads, “Warning! Warning!” So let’s “keep it real” as they say:

At this stage of the game, the one we call life, you’re entitled to do what you want to do!

I’d like for you to feel the excitement of having a vocation that makes you so excited that you jump out of bed in the morning— and not because you smelled smoke. Imagine having that “I’ve just had some great sex” smile on your face— all day— just because you’re in a career that you love or in a different lifestyle that really gets you jazzed. Because, for the first time in a long time , you’re going to do what you’re supposed to be doing ... something that completes you.

Well, you can have that feeling but only if you want it. Remember: Baggage is just experience magnified. George Burns was once asked about the secret of his longevity (mind you, he was asked this when he was still alive). With a twinkle in his eye and his trademark raspy voice he said: “Have a job you always love doing.”

If Not Now…Then When? is Available on Kindle!