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50 Amazing
Career Actions
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18. Think Freely 19. Be a Learner 20. To Do and To Don’t 21. Get Mentored 22. Do More 23. Know your Values 24. Pitch Yourself 25. Find your 3rd Dimension 26. Flip your CV 27. Fuel your Brain 28. Find your Style 29. Stay Positive 30. Ask Better Questions 31. Make Progress 32. Be Different 33. Be Authentic 34. Show Appreciation
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1. Stay Curious 2. Take Control 3. Be Calm 4. Fake it 5. Get Interested 6. Design Your Future 7. Be Seen 8. Start with Strengths 9. Make Time 10. Listen (properly) 11. Be Enterprising 12. Invest in your Network 13. Build your Board 14. Develop your Plan Z 15. Find Shortcuts 16. Tell Great Stories 17. Keep Reading
35. Be Accountable 36. Pick a Pattern 37. Be Present 38. Get out There 39. Own your Happiness 40. Develop Others 41. Fail Forward 42. Get Real 43. Test & Learn 44. Park the Past 45. Plan your Week 46. Know Yourself 47. Get Funded 48. Go Get It 49. Build Career Possibilities 50. Increase Influence
Summary: 50 Actions
We’ve designed the 50 actions to be as easy as possible for you to use…..
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Every dotted line contains an Amazing Action for you to take!
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Find your own personal source of inspiration and invest 5 minutes in it each day.
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1. We
Brainpickings
Curious
Squirrel away £50 a month
Create your own ‘get out of jail free’ card by saving up for a freedom fund.
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2.
Stop, pause and take ten minutes to clear your head everyday.
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3. Get some
Headspace
Watch Amy
Cuddy
Increase how confident you feel and how
confident you look through your body language
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4.
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Challenge yourself to do something new every month.
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Idler Academy
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6.
Design Your Future
Create a picture of your future in 5 years’ time.
Use pinterest to create
your vision
Look at some
example profiles
Get your LinkedIn profile up to date, give a recommendation and ask for one from a contact.
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Start Strengths With
8.
Ask peers ‘when was I at my best?’ Identify ways you can make the strengths they
identify even more visible.
Play to your
strengths
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9.
Assess your time
You have 168 hours in a week, find out which are your most productive hours and protect them for
your most important work.
LISTEN
(properly…) Listen to someone for three minutes without
interrupting and ask yourself how it felt and how often you give someone that level of attention.
Learn to Listen
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10.
Be
Enterprising
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Treat your career as if it was a business. Balance delivery with your personal growth.
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Invest in
your
Network
Get
tips
12.
Grow your network by nurturing 1 existing relationship, making 1 new contact and creating 1
connection for someone else each month.
networking
Build Aim for
Identify a small group of people who can support you in succeeding. Aim high and if they say no ask them to
recommend someone else.
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Your Board
13.
diversity
Develop Your Plan
Don’t let ‘what if’ get in the way. A Plan Z will be your safety net if things don’t work out as planned and will give you the confidence to make the leap
Prepare to fail
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Find Shortcuts
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Use people and technology to stay up to date, save time and do some of the hard work for you.
15. Sign-up to
readitfor.me for free book summaries
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Observe great storytellers and practise telling your own stories.
16.
Great stories
Tell The Moth
Keep Reading Create your own reading list for the year including
a couple of books that you wouldn’t usually pick up
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17. Keep track
of goodreads
Where good ideas come
from
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Rediscover your creativity by finding spaces and opportunities to explore new ideas.
18.
Learner Try learning something new by signing up for an
online course (they’re often free).
Be a Learn
something new
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19.
To Do To Don’t Stop being distracted by an endless To-Dos Get the most important things done first.
Prioritise your tasks
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&
Get Mentored
Get matched
with a mentor
Ask someone who knows you really well to recommend a mentor and make an introduction
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21.
Make better notes, actions and lists to
support productive working
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22. We
Checklist Manifesto
Make better notes, actions and lists to support productive working.
Know
Values Your
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Your values shape who you are and influence every decision you make. Make sure you’re clear about your
values and how they are driving you.
23. Find out
your values
Pitch Write your pitch
Be able to say what you do and what you’re great at in 30 seconds by developing your own
elevator pitch.
24.
Yourself
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Side Project
Tips
A 3rd dimension makes you more interesting and attractive as an employee. Think about how you can turn your passion into a profession by running a side project alongside your day job.
Find Your rd
dimension
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25.
FLIP
your CV
Instead of writing a CV for today, write the CV that you want to have in a year’s time. Use this to help you set
the right goals and gain relevant experiences.
26. Investigate
career options
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your brain
Exercise, sleep and protein all provide our brains with a steady source of fuel.
Make sure you’re getting enough.
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Hidden Driver of
Excellence
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Style Find an authentic style that fits for your environment.
76% of HR directors believe that an employee’s style of dress at work influences their chance of promotion!
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Dressipi & fashionbeans
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Being positive widens your attention span and fuels your desire to reach your goals. Stay positive by limiting
negative influences and sharing positivity with others.
29. We
The Happiness Advantage
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Ask
Better
Questions
Practise asking yourself and others difficult questions. This will push you out of your comfort zone and give
you a competitive edge versus your peers.
Read 344
questions
30.
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Make Progress
31. Find your personal
brand
Use the PIE acronym to help you make progress. Performance (work hard and smart), Image (your personal
brand) and Exposure (right profile, mix of projects).
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Be different
Read Differentiate
or Die
32.
If you spot an opportunity ,do something about it. You will stand out from the crowd just by taking action.
Learn more, fail more and gain more.
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Living Leader
33.
Integrate work and the rest of your life. Are you able to be the same person in all aspects
of your life? If not, what’s holding you back? www.amazingif.com
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Show Appreciation
50 ways to appreciate
34.
When we feel good we perform better, yet most of us criticise 5 times more than we say thank you. Take the
time to meaningfully appreciate those around you.
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35.
Accountable
Create goals that work
Write a letter to yourself outlining what you want to achieve in the next six weeks. Seal the envelope and ask someone to send
it to you in six weeks time.
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Be
pattern
Listen to other
people’s routines
Some element of routine can help everyone be in control of where they are going.
Find a routine that works for you.
36.
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Be Assess your
presence
37.
At the start of a day be aware of how many times you drift into thinking about something different to
the conversation or task you are engaged in.
P r e s e n t
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38. Get great at interviews
Keep your CV updated and apply for at least one job every year. This will help you to see how in demand your skills
are and throw up surprising opportunities.
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Own Your
Happiness
12 ways to
your job
Give yourself a score out of 10 for how well your job: a) uses your strengths, b) provides enjoyment c) meets basic needs
Identify what actions you could take to improve all three scores
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Develop
Others
Get involved
with Prince’s
Trust
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Developing others increases your happiness and their effectiveness. Become a mentor, coach or
just help a person or business that needs support.
Fail Forward
Choose yourself happy
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See failure as a comma not a full stop. Embrace rather than fight failure in order to push yourself
forward personally and professionally.
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Use Apps like Everest
& Lift
Break big dreams down into small steps, track your progress and celebrate your achievements as you
get closer to your goal.
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43.
Don’t let your ideas gather dust! Find a way to test them, even on a small scale, to
take the fear factor away.
Be inspired by Innocent’s
story
&
Park the Past
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Manage your social
self
Focusing on where you’re going, not where you’ve been. Focusing on the future will give you more energy and get you more traction.
PLAN YOUR WEEK
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gurus
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Spend 10 minutes on a Sunday planning your week, thinking through what you want to achieve, what events are happing, what you need to prepare for and who you need to contact.
Know Yourself
Write a journal
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When you have an emotional reaction to a situation you are uncomfortable with, take time to reflect on why it
occurred to enable you to take control of your responses.
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Find a scholarship and look for funding opportunities to further your learning. Ask people in your network how
they have funded their development.
GeT FUNDED
Search for a
Scholarship
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The first step to getting what you want is learn how to ask for it!
Go Get It
Learn the art
of asking
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Don’t limit yourself to one future. Replace your career plan with career possibilities.
Create a flexible
career plan
Possibilities Build Career
50.
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Reciprocity is a powerful persuasion tool. Think about what you want from a person and then identify what you
can give them in return – helping people will help you.
Get some persuasion
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