Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One (Jenny Blake, 2016)

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  • "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward" Steve Jobs
  • Career operating modes
    1. Inactive
    2. Reactive
    3. Proactive
    4. Innovative
  • Riskometer
    1. Stagnation zone
    2. Comfort zone
    3. Stretch zone
    4. Panic zone
  • Calibration questions
    1. What is your ideal day like without money concern?
    2. What excites you most?
    3. What are you most proud of?
    4. What compliments people give you the most?
    5. What would your closed ones say you value the most?
    6. What are some powerful memories you have?
    7. Who are your 3 most admired people and why?
    8. What do you want less in your life?
    9. What challenges are you currently facing?
    10. What are you unanswered questions at the momemt?
    11. What are you missing in life?
    12. What do you want more in your life?
  • Value clusters
    1. Connection, community, friends, family, intimacy
    2. Creativity, innovation, ideas, writing, expression
    3. Courage, risk taking, challenge
    4. Freedom, independence
    5. Financial security
    6. Gratitude, being present, mindfulness, rest and rejuvenation
    7. Health and wellness routines, sense of balance
    8. Humour, plan, recreation
    9. Helping others, making a difference, influence, impact, teaching, service, reach
    10. Learning, growing, exploring, travel, adventure
  • Happiness formula
    • Mental/emotional/spiritual
      1. A morning routine
      2. Reading
      3. Meditating
      4. Spiritual practices
      5. Journaling
      6. Living in an energising city
      7. Creating a comforting home environment
      8. Taking weekend trips
      9. Working on creative projects
    • Physical
      1. Getting outside
      2. Spending time in nature
      3. Going for a walk
      4. Taking a fitness class
      5. Exercising regularly
      6. Getting 8 hours of sleep
      7. Eating healthy meals
    • Social
      1. Meeting a friend for coffee or a meal
      2. Cooking with others
      3. Talking to friends and family on phone
      4. Spending quality time with loved ones
      5. Attending cultural or sporting events
      6. Volunteering regularly
      7. Taking classes
      8. Hosting gatherings
      9. Long-term traveling
  • Success questions
    1. What impact you want to have on your closed ones, local community and global community?
    2. What information are you most excited to share?
    3. What would you end off in a speech?
    4. How contributing to others will have on your own life?
    5. What major life experience are most exciting to you?
    6. Which section of book you always go into?
    7. What success look like in 2-year's time?
    8. What are the successful metrics?
    9. What achievements will indicate that you are having the impact you seek?
    10. What organisation will be giving you award and which category?
  • Work activities zone
    1. Incompetence
    2. Competence
    3. Excellence
    4. Genius
  • Strong strategy blends
    1. Warm connections
    2. Retulation capital
    3. Thought leadership and platform
  • When you started learning, you will feel the incompetence as you know more, let it pass and you will become a conscious competence.
  • Fauxspiration foe
    • Read articles but drained to take actions.
    • Read books but did not practice.
    • Browse successful people but do not believe there is something you can do.
    • Stucked in analysis paralysis but is just procrastination.
  • You do not have to please everybody.

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