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Reader, you won’t believe what just happened.
I wrote a really good email to you.
It was an email I had meticulously planned out last week.
I took a break, came back and…
It was deleted.
IT WAS DELETED!!!!!!
After bursting into wailing sobs (in my defense, I am pregnant), and stomping around the house, I sat down to rewrite it.
The email I rewrote was absolute crap. So I’m not sharing that with you.
Then I realized I was having an extremely meta experience.
My email to you was about how I hate 5-year plans. They feel cringey restrictive and can blind you to yourself, and they’re inflexible.
And here I was in a moment where my original plan was completely blown. I realized I had to take my own advice, be flexible, create a solution, and move on.
The same can be said for your career.
You can’t count on anyone or anything else.
Not luck, and not a plan. You always have to be able to self-generate momentum no matter what life throws at you.
In preparation for my upcoming Ladies Get Hired 90-day coaching program, I’ve mined my own career and life to determine what essential elements I leveraged to self-generate momentum.
So instead of keeping those insights for the 30 women who enroll in the program, I’m going to share my Top 13 for you below.
When I graduated college, I was lost.
I worked as a hostess at a restaurant, in customer service at a wallpaper company, and pretended to be a journalist to sneak into Fashion Week.
I lived on my cousin’s couch in the Bronx (shout out to Jay, I owe ya!) and ate chickpeas straight out of the can.
So how did I go from the girl on the left with the beer to the woman on the right with the billboard?
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A lot of things. Some of it was being in the “right place” and “right time” but mostly, it was me creating the right place and right time.
Here are the 13 essential things I’ve learned that were critical for self-generating career momentum:
- Ask yourself strategic questions but learn to trust your intuition to answer them
- Be very clear on your priorities/dealbreakers and make decisions accordingly
- Surround yourself with people who inspire – and challenge – you
- Ask them specific questions about how they made career decisions
- Filter what they say through your own definition of success
- Define success on your terms
- Action > analyzing
- Pay attention to what comes naturally to you – do more of that.
- Pay attention to where your energy goes – protect it
- Get help for your mental health
- Create opportunities outside of work to expand your world
- Look at everything like practice
- Be a connector
The art of self-generated career momentum is one of the things I’m most excited to teach the 30 women who I’ll be working with starting in March through the coaching program, in addition to holding you accountable, and holding your hand (virtually!) when you need it.
Want to be one of those 30 women?
Enrollment opens on February 12th and is first come first serve. The best way to secure your spot is to:
- Get on the waitlist
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Book a free exploratory call with me if you’re not sure the program is right for you
As a reminder, the program kicks off in March and is first-come-first-serve. It includes bi-weekly group sessions, weekly action plans/accountability check-ins (plus optional co-working), personalized edits on all your job search materials, and two private sessions with me at any point during the 90 days.
I’m super excited to dig in with a group of women committed to making a career change, and I promise it’s going to be worthwhile investment for your career.
| Sign up for the waitlist to secure 1 of 30 spots |