Motivation Monday New Job or Bust

Motivation Monday New Job or Bust Will 2012 be the year you land a new job? Millions of people resolve to make things better in their lives starting January 1st.   Are you one of them? I dont want to see you fall off the wagon, so how are you going to ensure you hold on and follow through? Heres the deal.   I know first hand how hard it is to DO what you actually say you are going to do.   Im living it daily myself.   Last year I set all sorts of goals and had great ideas, most of which I still havent implemented.   (Running my own business has given me ADHD, but I wont use that as an excuse.) Here are some of the things I keep telling myself to help me finish what I start or follow through on good ideas. Capture the Quick Wins By quick wins, I absolutely do not mean landing a job!   Quick wins are projects or things you can finish in a day or less and will have a significant impact.   Chunck big pieces into small pieces if you need to. Here are some ideas: Write a robust LinkedIn Summary (just the summary for now!) Reach out to 5 people you know who you have to speak with about your search Fine tune and practice your Elevator Pitch Begin with the End in Mind Even these quick wins require you do some pre-work.   This is why I am asking you to begin by identifying just a couple of quick wins at first.   Youll realize that they usually take more time then you thought (or should take more time if you are doing it right!) For example: in order for you to write a robust LinkedIn profile, you will probably want to check out the summaries of other people with your same job/occupation.   DO NOT COPY or PLAGIARIZE!   Look for ideas. See what kind of tone they use. In order to reach out to 5 people, you have to identify them and then figure out exactly what you will say to them. A bulleted script can really help here.   You will probably be able to use the same script for all 5 people.   Keep it simple and make note of what doesnt work.   One more reminder, do not accept no for an answer. Set A Deadline Give yourself a reasonable deadline.   Put this deadline on your calendar and stick to it at all costs! For the longest time, I would just mentally note deadlines and they would slip by.   There is something about writing deadlines down that makes them more difficult to ignore or possibly forget! Just Deliver If you are a perfectionist, you know how hard it is to reach the high quality of work you expect.   As a result, you tweak and re-tweak forever and as a resultthe deadline passes and you continue to keep modifying your deliverable. In Seth Godins book Linchpin (which is a great read, by the way),   he talks about delivering.   He says: Just deliver! So my words to you when your deadline hits:   Just Deliver! You can modify later. What will be your quick wins?   Put it in writing in a comment below!