Posted under Career Management, Diversity, Uncategorized, Women on July 4th, 2008
Yasmin Davidds-Garrido, international best-selling author and empowerment specialist, often expresses the following quotation in her presentations:
“Personal power comes from within and when you embrace it, you feel as though there is nothing in the world that you cannot handle. It helps you recognize that everything in your life is a choice, and it reinforces the truth that you have complete control over each and every one of those choices. While we may not have control over the events that occur in our lives, we have control over how we react to these events. You, alone, are in control of your destiny.”
How does this apply to your career? As we stated in our post Twelve Characteristics of Multicultural Career Success:
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Trust that you are the most important person in your career.
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Embrace your personal power to fuel your career power.
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Activate your career power so you can be proactive in your job search, manage the process and to respond well, rather than react, to the events you cannot control.
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Learn to adapt and transform any self-limiting cultural programming into power centers.
Declare your independence today, July 4, 2008!
Posted by Murray A. Mann
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Scientific Recruitment on 16 Jul 2008 at 4:35 pm #
Trust me, it works. For the first time in my life I took a strong stance against an employer when my role within the company changed against my will. I’d joined the company to be involved in a very specific and thriving area or marketing but after 8 months in the job I was told i would now be working in the sales department. My performance in my original role had been excellent but the boss felt my skills could be better deployed elsewhere. I made my feelings very clear and started looking for a job straightaway, and i’m pleased to say i had no shortage of offers. I’m in a fantastic job now on a much better salary, and to top it off the company i left have asked me to go back because someone else in the same department has left. No thanks, you had your chance.
Mel | Executive Search on 11 Aug 2009 at 4:34 am #
Great post and it is so true only you process this power of your destiny. I have a friend that has this saying that she always says you are in control of your own destiny no one else. This does make a lot of sense and something that we all should think about in order to get the things that we want in our lives.