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Sacrifice Can Be Your Edge

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In a tough job market we all want an edge.  In a good job market we still want an edge since we want the best jobs.  Either way we're all looking for that edge, that advantage, that something that'll give us a leg up to get the job, client, and career we're looking for.

It's probably why you're here reading this now.

We all know the standard things we're supposed to do – get educated, network, etc.  We know all the edges we're supposed to have (even if we don't actually use them or acquire them).  So I'd like to talk about one that is very important, one that you may or may not have, but may not be aware of. 

Best of all it's an edge that's very powerful.

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Visualize Massive Success

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I want you to take a look at your career, and take ten minutes to visualize utter, massive success.  What your dream job and career and indeed life is like (they should all be the same, really).  Go crazy, go nuts for that ten minutes, and treat yourself to it.

I'll wait, go on.

So how did it feel?  Good?  Amazing?  Any surprises?  I imagine you got some new ideas out of it, and some surprising directions.

We too often try and "be reasonable" about our goals, but that often degenerates into us selling ourselves short and aiming low.  We forget that part of creating solutions is dreaming them up, and part of that is knowing where we want to go.  We have to have an idea of where we want to be in order to get there.

It helps to be "unreasonable" now and then and dream up a massive image of success.  It's educational, surprising, and may give us some ideas.

What are you afraid of?

– Steven Savage

Failure Is A Sign you Tried

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So you failed.  You tried to finish an art project and it didn't work.  You tried to get a job and didn't get it.  I'm sure you've had recent or past failures that you gave it your all for, and it didn't work.

These are the moments to sit back, look, and realize that there is one good thing.

You showed you could make the effort.

Yes, you failed, perhaps big time, perhaps spectacularly.  But here's the thing to remember – no matter what happened you were able to bring the effort to bear.

It may not have been the right effort, it may have been too much or too little, started too late or too early.  But you proved you can MAKE the effort.

It's important to remember these things, especially in our darker moments of self-loathing.  We have to remember that, flaws aside, we can bring our resources and skills, and energies to bear towards a goal.

When we remember that we're capable of effort, it takes the sting off of failure, and reminds us of what we're capable of.

It reminds us of the resources and enthusiasms and abilities we have.  It reminds us of all we did right.

It reminds us that we can do it again.

So next time you think you failed, appreciate the effort you made.  Any mistakes aside, at least you made the effort.

– Steven Savage