Rejection

Rejection

Have ever been rejected for a position? I have been turned down a few times in my past career attempts. I believe rejections have made me stronger and encourage me to keep pressing towards what I want to achieve in my career. In my opinion, this is how you create your career. You must get out of your comfort zone and do the things you are afraid of doing. You must understand and accept that you will not get every job you apply for. From what I discovered you will get the job you need to take you to the next level in your career and surprisingly that job may not be the job you think. Always be open to new possibilities. Take the rejection with a grain of salt and Keep It Moving.

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Spend time alone

Spend time alone

Last week I wrote about what it means to have true joy and this week I want to elaborate on how to seek that joy. Here is a great question: Are you spending time alone? I don’t mean being lonely, that is not being the same as being alone. Being alone is sitting on the couch reading a book in an empty house or simply taking a car ride to nowhere to think. So why is this important? Well answer this, how do you get to know someone if you are not spending time with them? Really, there isn’t any other way to get to know someone. So why not let that someone be you. Get to know yourself. As a coach, I have discovered many people don’t really know themselves. Many people are living a life that someone else wants them to live. Is that you? As I mentioned last week, clear your schedule and make time for yourself daily. Your life will change as a result of you spending time with yourself. Ask me how do I know? :)

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True Joy

True Joy

 

Dictionary.com says the meaning of joy is the “feeling of great pleasure and happiness.” Do you have joy on the job? Before we can ask do we have joy in the workplace, we must first ask do we have joy within ourselves. I heard this phrase the other day and it was life-changing, the phrase was “whatever you believe you are 100% correct,”. How true is this for you? What do you believe about yourself? Many issues we have in the workplace stem from some internal belief we have. Take a moment and ask yourself what brings you true joy; spend some time with yourself and take time out of the busy schedule you created to do the things that bring you “true joy.” Make a list of what do you believe about yourself. Here are three things I believe about myself:

 

1.     I will change the world in my own way

2.     I will get what I want 

3.     I am beautiful inside and out

 

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Lessons from the storm

Lessons from the storm

 

My beautiful home state of Florida just experienced the most massive hurricane in years. I believe the state officials were fully prepared and ready to respond. Here are some lessons I learned from the storm that I wanted to pass along:

 

1.     Always be prepared. Don’t get prepared when someone prompts you to. 

2.     Use your down time wisely. No cable or internet is a perfect time to bond with family, meditate, and spend time with yourself. 

3.     Stay off Social Media unless you need to get updates. Nothing is going on. 

4.     Be patient with rebuilding and starting over. 

 

These are just some observations I had and wanted to share. Please feel free to share yours.

 

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Take a break

Take a break

 

Are you constantly on the go? Are you always doing something and you never have time to stop and think? I believe these are questions we must answer more than once in our lives. I know I am not an exception. I am always going and doing something, however, I decided to stop for today. I am going to binge watch a television series, people keep talking about. Now, do I have many other things I could be doing, yes of course. I decided to stop at a certain time today and start watching the series. I will stop and focus on the series on purpose. What can you do to shut your brain off just for today? You and your brain deserve it. Also, look at the best part to this, you just never know where your next idea will come from, so take a break.

 

#TakeABreak #TeachTrainEducate #Learn

I just did it

I just did it

As a young girl and a teenager, I would always interview my friends and family. I would use a pen as my microphone and I even had my own theme music (don’t ask, lol). I would ask questions pertaining to the situation at hand at the time. As I got older I knew in my heart that I wanted to one day have my own talk show. Fast forward to 2017, where YouTube will allow anyone to be a star. So, I did it! I launched my mini talk show on YouTube on 8/1/2017, entitled “Creating Your Career with Marla J. Williams.” I did not plan it or think about it. I just did it. Lily Ma from EvanCarmichael.com reached out to me and I asked her to be my first guest and she agreed, therefore, we set it up and we did it. It took me back to when I was that young girl with a dream. It felt natural and real to me. I truly enjoyed it and I have a list of people lined up for me to interview. What is something you just need to do? Stop thinking and just do it.

Subscribe to my talk show on YouTube: https://youtu.be/faUFIqU8pHs

 

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Do you really need to be an expert?

Do you really need to be an expert?

I recently watched a video where Simon Sinek (whom I just love), stated that seeking expertise can be a waste of time. I can understand his point. I don’t believe we need to be an expert at all we achieve. I believe we need to remain open to all the possibilities. I believe we need to “try” it all as I state in my new book “52 Career Tips: Action Steps to Move You Forward” coming out before the end of this year. Once we discover that “thing” or “things” we can hone in on those skills until we believe (not anyone else) that we have learned the skill to our satisfaction. I think that is the secret to expertise, learning something to the point of our own satisfaction and then deciding where I want to go next. You are the artist so create your own masterpiece

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