Hot Tip: Commit to your career like you commit to your exercise and you WILL see results! How To Gain Career Traction With Two Easy Actions Part Two
This is the official Part Two of How To Gain Career Traction With Two Easy Actions: Commit to your career like you commit to your exercise!
I can’t tell you how many time this has played out in my Television Hosting classes. I ask my students how often do you workout? and invariably the majority will respond in unison, 5 days a week. It makes sense. I teach on-camera skills. It’s a visual medium. There’s almost always someone who says, I’m doing CrossFit 6 days a week. Trust me, it shows. They are in great shape.
How to gain career traction with two easy actions! Part One
This is the official Part Two of How To Gain Career Traction With Two Easy Actions: Commit to your career like you commit to your exercise!
I can’t tell you how many time this has played out in my Television Hosting classes. I ask my students how often do you workout? and invariably the majority will respond in unison, 5 days a week. It makes sense. I teach on-camera skills. It’s a visual medium. There’s almost always someone who says, I’m doing CrossFit 6 days a week. Trust me, it shows. They are in great shape.
Why YES is the Wrong Career Advice
Don’t take yes for an answer is fabulous advice when you stop and think about it. Many accomplished people say it was hearing no that motivated them to work harder and achieve their greatness.
I’m a big believer in positive psychology, the yes and ethos of improv comedy and embracing life like Shonda Rhimes in My Year of Saying Yes.
CASE STUDY: John Krasinski #SGN
Are you watching John Krasinski’s Some Good News? It’s taken YouTube and the world by storm since it launched a little over a month ago (2.21M subscribers/50 million+ views and counting.)
I’m waiting for Episode 6 to drop as I type. If you haven’t checked it out yet I don’t want to ruin it with spoilers but trust me you’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you may even gasp – I did in Episode 5. Dude’s got some serious connections at Pepsi.
Some Good News (SGN) is also a master class in how to successfully create content in the time of corona – or any time.
Are You Camera-Ready? You Should Be. Learn How!
The sudden surge in video conferencing due to working from home has put a spotlight on what’s been true for a long time: Everyone must be camera-ready.
Even if you have never thought about being on-camera (Me? Television?) you were probably on camera before #WFH without realizing it.
5 Perfect Films, 5 Friends (The Incomplete List)
Twitter at its best is a wonderful universe. An exchange of ideas for like-minded travelers and lovers of words. Good lighting not required. It’s keeping me company during the long isolating days and nights of the coronavirus, never more so than this week’s 5 Perfect Films, 5 Friends challenge that sprang out of nowhere with a tag from my dear, long-time friend @theresakereakes who was tagged by goddess activist @lizzwinstead, and instantly connected me to old friends, new friends, friends of friends and more.
You Should Look for Signs. Here’s Why.
But I believe in signs. They are everywhere if we are open to seeing them. I don’t always see them. Sometimes I’m caught up in my own mischegoss.
Yesterday though, day 32 of working from home, I was walking down my Brooklyn block to get some fresh air and my bi-weekly grocery shopping when I saw The Sign on the stoop of a brownstone: An old paperback copy of Dale Carnegie’s classic, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.
How To Zoom Like A Star P2: Executive Presence on Camera
I love checklists. In my previous How to Zoom Like a Star post I shared tips on best practices around the mechanics of communicating via the many video platforms like Zoom, Skype, Bluejeans, Google Hangouts etc.
How to Avoid Zoom Gloom
Zoom Gloom is real. It shows up when that dread one feels for yet another video conference call translates into low, dud spud energy and bad camera angles.
The first thing to do is get in the habit of checking in with yourself because as Gabby Bernstein says, your vibes speaking louder than words – even on Zoom/Skype/Bluejeans etc.
How to Zoom Like a Star! Part One
What a year last week was! I hope you are doing well and practicing self-care and social distancing. Now that my family is settled and adjusting to the new normal, I am beginning to look outward again. I was having virtual cocktails last night with a teacher-friend and giving them a zoom tutorial in preparation for their online classes this week and I thought this information might be helpful to others thrown into the deep end of WFH.