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Equipping you with phenomenal skills, habits and a mindset to help you redefine your limits, to have an amazing career and life away from work. Whether it's maintaining your edge, breathing life into a stale career or transitioning to a totally new career — here you'll find the tools and guidance you need. Hosted by Executive and Career Coach & Neuropsychologist Dr Jim Polk, with over 40 years experience guiding people to greatness. New episodes drop weekly. DrJimPolk.com / DrJimPolk@ProtonM ...
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How to Handle a Personal Crisis When It's Hurting Your Career
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How to Handle a Personal Crisis When It's Hurting Your Career At some point, all of us will confront a stressful life event or personal crisis that can distract us from our work. It can’t be avoided. Maybe it’s taking care of an ill family member or close friend, dealing with your own illness, or coping with a divorce. All of these can be incredibl…
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Four Strategies to Maintain Your Success Mindset
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Four Strategies to Maintain Your Success Mindset In our last meeting I began the process of helping you Master YOUR Success Mindset. That episode focused on building Resilience, Grit and Emotional Control … to get you more of what you want out of life, and to succeed in your Career. THIS week, I’ll be covering a set of real strategies that you can …
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Mastering Your Success Mindset - How to Crush Your Career
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Mastering Your Success Mindset - How to Crush Your Career I’m thrilled to help you along this journey towards boosting your career and life away from work. In this podcast we’re going to focus on building, maintaining and Mastering a Success Mindset for your career. How are we going to do that? Great Question… We’ll be dissecting three traits that …
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Emotional Mastery to Elevate Your Career Today we’re going to tackle the topic of Mastering Your Emotions. WE ALL experience a wide range of emotions during our life. And we need both types — POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. They give us feedback about how we’re doing in the world. BUT SOMETIMES emotions can get in the way of us living a healthy and successf…
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Developing and Advancing in Your Career - 3 Awesome Methods
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Developing and Advancing in Your Career - 3 Awesome Methods Today I’ll be covering two of the most common and important problems workers in almost every field run into, Career Advancement and Career Development. The two are interdependent concepts. Career Development lays the FOUNDATION for Career Advancement by providing you with skills, expertise…
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A Balanced Life — Your Career and Life Away from Work This view that people need to do more than work resonates with a growing number, myself included, and I hope you adopt it by the end of today’s episode. In Today’s Episode we’ll be looking at Work Life Balance, or what I label it, A Balanced Life. Today we’ll examine why this balance is importan…
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Taking Stock of Who You Really Are — Values & Beliefs
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VALUES AND BELIEFS How well do you really know yourself? I’m not talking about knowing what your favorite color is, what you like to watch on tv or how you spend your leisure time … although these do say something about you. The busy and hectic way that many live their lives, can make it difficult to actually KNOW who they are down deep. And knowin…
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Beginning AGAIN - Career Changing Strategies for Senior Level Executives & Professionals
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Strategies for Career Change for Senior Level Executives & Professionals It can often be challenging for senior-level executives to completely switch careers … compared to mid-level professionals. Why? We can grow out of our career, simply because it no longer interests us the way it used to and something else calls to us. Maybe the need for a new …
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TIME - Strategies to Make the Most of Yours
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TIME MANAGEMENT People are constantly either trying to make the most of their time, wasting time or trying to make up for lost time. There are almost countless stories and films on time … Back to the Future with Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells and my personal favorite … the 1966 television series the TIME TUNNE…
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3 Ways to Master Your Mindset for Success
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Today, we’re going to look at your Mindset, specifically the part of it dealing with: The Meaning You Give Things We’ll examine just what that means and why it’s important to your success and how it can cause setbacks. And, we’ll also look at How to Shift the Meaning You Give Things into a Healthy and Useful Direction, as well as hoow to Maintain t…
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Success Unleashed - Master Your Focus & Subconscious
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Have you ever wondered why you do some of the things you do? Or like or dislike certain things? What’s your favorite color? Why? Today we'll jump into different ways to improve your focus by “focusing” on your subconscious mind. What goes on there is a powerful driver for your focus, your decision making and the way you view the world — and how you…
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How to Use Setbacks to Improve Your Career and Life
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Setbacks We've ALL had and will continue to have bumps in the road. The world’s far from perfect, so they’re inevitable. The MOST important thing regarding SETBACKS is how we respond to them. It doesn’t matter what you’re up to in life — in school, on the job, raising children, working in high tech or industry, teaching, whatever. Setbacks will occ…
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Creating & Implementing Your Career Action Plan - Ready, Set, Go!
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Creating and Implementing Your Career Action Plan If you've been following this podcast, you know it's all about making changes in your life to accelerate and improve your career, or to switch to a new career, to get more of what you want from life ... happiness, fulfillment, flexibility, more money and spare time. We've touched a lot on work/life …
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FOCUS - 10 Ways to Improve Yours to Skyrocket Your Career
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The way your life plays out and how successful you are at something, is the result of the decisions you make. So what determines which decisions you make and how well you implement them? FOCUS Focus puts your attention onto a task, maintains it and guides your thoughts and actions to an outcome. Focus is a skill that can be impaired or improved. To…
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Creativity in The Workplace - Why You Need It & How to Regain Yours
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Creativity is the Number One attribute employers are looking for in their people today. Think about it. It's needed for Entrepreneurs , Start-Ups, Marketing, Medicine, Space Programs, Music and Art, IT and AI, Sports, Management & Team Building ... ANY job or career path you can imagine. Thing is, we're all born Creative. But along the way society …
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How to Create a Vision for Your Future - Seeing Clearly
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The ability to properly execute, carry out and succeed with a Career Change requires a plan. There’s lots of moving parts to a comprehensive plan and one of the most important is to have good vision, in order to not only see your ultimate goal, but to keep an eye on the road along the way. But before you make a plan you need to have a clear underst…
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In today’s episode we’re going to explore the different situations people get themselves STUCK in, focusing mostly on how they get stuck in a Dead End Career. It can be difficult to change lanes in life. Once we invest time, money and emotions into a certain career, the effort it takes to change careers is daunting and most people resign themselves…
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Knowing When to Change Careers — Ready or Not?
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How do you know when it's time to change careers or to retire? Sometimes, when you believe it's your career that's dragging you down — it's not your career that's the problem. In today's episode, you'll learn how to identify all the contributors to how you feel about your career, and if you're feeling burned out, how to accurately figure-out what's…
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