So Sarah Palin is back on the campaign trail, well, a national book tour, she says, but we all know better. We missed her. Love her or loathe her, and she does seem to invite extreme reactions in people, she sure livens up the news. Last year’s presidential contest looked like being a procession until she showed up.
She soon got hammered by the liberal media, brutally. But she still gamely showed up to joust with Tina Fey on the Saturday Night Live show.
She’s a glutton for punishment. Her book has again set her up as a prime target. Take this blistering prose from the Sunday Times (UK) columnist, Andrew Sullivan: “The lies and truths and half-truths and the facts and non-facts are all blurred together in a pious purée of such ghastly self-serving prose that, in the end, the book can really be read only as some kind of chapter in a cheap 19th-century edition of Lives of the Saints.”
Does Palin really believe she can make the White House? Cynics might say that she is sure to have a go, if only for the inevitable, eventual riches from Going Rogue, Volume II.
The sad trait of many in politics is that they listen all too closely to their advisers, their followers, their sycophants, each of whom has a vested interest in their patron fighting on with maximum effort, enthusiasm and expense.
Do any in Palin’s team actually sit her down and give her a realistic assessment of her prospects for becoming President of the United States of America? More importantly, do they advise her on whether she could make a good president, a good ruler of the free world?
Palin is backing her passion. She is passionate about power. She craves it. She is not in politics to drive forward change, to make a difference. She is in it for the passion of power.
So it might do her no harm to follow this blog. She has resigned her Governorship, so is jobless. Sure, she is still a mother of five, the youngest of whom has very special needs. Sure, she is an author who is very actively plugging her book.
But she’s still a young, healthy, vibrant woman. And very ambitious. She will not settle for being a stay-at-home author mom.
This blog will show her how to back her passion and succeed at her new job. But is that job the President of the USA?
We’re going to be skipping ahead of the blog here – inevitable, since at the pace I’ve been writing these posts we won’t cover the main how-tos of the Backing U! books for a couple of years! But bear with me...
Evidently, doing the job of President gets maximum ticks on the Palin passionometer. So it is certainly worthy of proceeding to the screening process. For those who haven’t read the books, jobs which you feel passionate about need to be screened for two criteria – job market attractiveness and your likely competitive standing.
How attractive is the market for the job of US president? It is about as unattractive a market as can be imagined:
· There’s only one post available – great job if you can get it, but there’s no getting round the fact that there’s only one position up for grabs. Having said that, there was only one Governor of Alaska post and Palin landed that. Likewise with Mayor of Wasilla, the launchpad for what could still be one of the most extraordinary careers in US political history
· The market isn’t growing – in three years’ time, there will still only be one job available
· It’s highly competitive – the incumbent himself is a formidable adversary, but to even get to face him you’ve got to beat off ruthlessly an array of tough contenders from your own side
· It’s high risk – even if you land the job, the chances of you being booted out after four years are somewhere around 50%
So it’s not an attractive market. But that doesn’t mean the job should be screened out. There’s the other criterion to be looked at. In order to pass through the screening process, Palin is going to have to rate highly on the potential competitive standing criterion. Based on her capabilities and her experience to date, how well placed is Palin to land the job and do it well?
Have a think about that – we’ll return to it in a later post...!
Friday, 27 November 2009
Friday, 13 November 2009
How to Find a Job with Passion: Part II
Okay, you already have before you a list of 20, 30, 40 or so jobs that may inspire you to varying degrees. Time to extend the list...
So far you have only looked at your family, friends, and colleagues - and at their friends, family, and colleagues. How about your fellow interest-sharers? Do you belong to any clubs, societies, voluntary groups, political groups? Are you a golfer? A member of Toastmasters? A chorister? Do you help out at your kid's school? At the club? At church?
Whichever group you are involved with, think on this: what else do you have in common with your fellow group members, other than the one common interest through which you know each other? Might you have work interests in common? What is their line of business? Are any of them in a job that would inspire you?
What about their family, friends, and colleagues?
Take out your sheet of paper and add to it some jobs of your fellow interest-sharers and their contacts.
So far you’ve looked to people you know for inspiration. Now take a look at people you don’t know but you know of. Think of people you’ve read about in books who have inspired you. Poeple you’ve looked at or read about in newspapers, in the supplements, in magazines. What about people you’ve seen on TV? In documentaries, in reality shows, in sports, on the news. People who’ve inspired you in some way.
Think too of fictitious people. People in novels, in movies, in the theater, in dramas, or soaps on TV. People whose imaginary lives have come alive for you through fiction or drama. Try broadening your reading to gain further inspiration.
How's your list coming along? If it hasn't reached 30 or 40 by now, you may need to try some further sources - please take a look at my book, Backing U!, for more detailed info.
Next we need to review your list - this is the fun part, and it's for the next post...!
So far you have only looked at your family, friends, and colleagues - and at their friends, family, and colleagues. How about your fellow interest-sharers? Do you belong to any clubs, societies, voluntary groups, political groups? Are you a golfer? A member of Toastmasters? A chorister? Do you help out at your kid's school? At the club? At church?
Whichever group you are involved with, think on this: what else do you have in common with your fellow group members, other than the one common interest through which you know each other? Might you have work interests in common? What is their line of business? Are any of them in a job that would inspire you?
What about their family, friends, and colleagues?
Take out your sheet of paper and add to it some jobs of your fellow interest-sharers and their contacts.
So far you’ve looked to people you know for inspiration. Now take a look at people you don’t know but you know of. Think of people you’ve read about in books who have inspired you. Poeple you’ve looked at or read about in newspapers, in the supplements, in magazines. What about people you’ve seen on TV? In documentaries, in reality shows, in sports, on the news. People who’ve inspired you in some way.
Think too of fictitious people. People in novels, in movies, in the theater, in dramas, or soaps on TV. People whose imaginary lives have come alive for you through fiction or drama. Try broadening your reading to gain further inspiration.
How's your list coming along? If it hasn't reached 30 or 40 by now, you may need to try some further sources - please take a look at my book, Backing U!, for more detailed info.
Next we need to review your list - this is the fun part, and it's for the next post...!
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
How to Find a Job with Passion: Part I
The difficulty with finding a job with passion, I can hear some argue, is in getting started. Suppose you have never heard of or come across the ideal job for you!
They have a point! This will be so in some cases. In which case, please, please revert to the standard approach used in most career guides. You could try Richard Bolles' perennial best-selling What Color is Your Parachute and fill in his flower diagram. Geography: North America. Interests: beekeeping and honey. People environment: people who help others. Values: mutual support. Working conditions: outdoors. Salary: at least average earnings. Transferable skills: accounting and (favorite) beekeeping.
Then, after a prolonged and painstaking job search, Eureka!, you find it: a vacancy for a new commune member of the Honey Cooperative in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan—a job of your dreams and one you previously didn’t know existed!
These cases I suspect may be uncommon. In the majority of cases, the approach recommended here works too because you already know of, or you can get to know of, the kind of work you would like to do. That’s not to decry the standard, bottom-up approach, of course. It’s proven. It works.
How to find the ideal job for you? How to discover where the passion lies? If you don’t already know, and many of you do, here are some tips.
Think of jobs you admire of those you know. Think of your family. Your friends. Your old school friends. Your colleagues. Your former colleagues. Your kids’ friends’ parents.
Are any of them in a job or running a business that would inspire you? Have they been in the past? Are they thinking of switching to one?
Take one further degree of separation: What about the family, friends, and colleagues of your family, friends, and colleagues? Do they have jobs that would inspire you?
Take a piece of paper and make three columns. In the left-hand column, write down all the names you’ve just thought of. In the middle column, write down the kind of work these people do, or did. Then in the right-hand column, indicate to what extent the work would inspire you. Try ticks. Or a cross for a job that does nothing for you. One tick for an okay job. Two ticks for a good job. Three ticks for a great job.
Then give four, five, or however many ticks you can fit across the column for the jobs that would truly inspire you—the jobs where the real passion lies.
That's a start. You already have a list of 20, 30, 40 jobs, each of which you have rated according to the degree of passion you would feel if you were to do that work.
We'll now build up that list by drawing from other sources - but that's for the next post...!
They have a point! This will be so in some cases. In which case, please, please revert to the standard approach used in most career guides. You could try Richard Bolles' perennial best-selling What Color is Your Parachute and fill in his flower diagram. Geography: North America. Interests: beekeeping and honey. People environment: people who help others. Values: mutual support. Working conditions: outdoors. Salary: at least average earnings. Transferable skills: accounting and (favorite) beekeeping.
Then, after a prolonged and painstaking job search, Eureka!, you find it: a vacancy for a new commune member of the Honey Cooperative in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan—a job of your dreams and one you previously didn’t know existed!
These cases I suspect may be uncommon. In the majority of cases, the approach recommended here works too because you already know of, or you can get to know of, the kind of work you would like to do. That’s not to decry the standard, bottom-up approach, of course. It’s proven. It works.
How to find the ideal job for you? How to discover where the passion lies? If you don’t already know, and many of you do, here are some tips.
Think of jobs you admire of those you know. Think of your family. Your friends. Your old school friends. Your colleagues. Your former colleagues. Your kids’ friends’ parents.
Are any of them in a job or running a business that would inspire you? Have they been in the past? Are they thinking of switching to one?
Take one further degree of separation: What about the family, friends, and colleagues of your family, friends, and colleagues? Do they have jobs that would inspire you?
Take a piece of paper and make three columns. In the left-hand column, write down all the names you’ve just thought of. In the middle column, write down the kind of work these people do, or did. Then in the right-hand column, indicate to what extent the work would inspire you. Try ticks. Or a cross for a job that does nothing for you. One tick for an okay job. Two ticks for a good job. Three ticks for a great job.
Then give four, five, or however many ticks you can fit across the column for the jobs that would truly inspire you—the jobs where the real passion lies.
That's a start. You already have a list of 20, 30, 40 jobs, each of which you have rated according to the degree of passion you would feel if you were to do that work.
We'll now build up that list by drawing from other sources - but that's for the next post...!
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
How to Know Where the Passion Lies?
You’ll know when you’ve found a job with passion. Just thinking about it is exciting. It’ll make your thoughts race. It’ll wake you at five o’clock in the morning, and you won’t want to go back to sleep.
It’ll fill you with drive. To do something about it. To pick up the phone, knock on a door.
Above all, you’ll know you’ve found the passion when you speak about the job. When people talk about something they’re passionate about, the voice changes. The pace quickens. The pitch rises. The volume gets turned up a notch or two.
As an extreme example, take a teenage girl in two situations. Imagine her mother or father asking her how school went that day. The answer comes back monosyllabically, monotonously, ponderously. Then the telephone goes and her best buddy’s on the line. The voice undergoes a metamorphosis. Suddenly it’s animated, rapid, rich in variety of tone, pitch, and volume. Punctuated throughout with laughter. Whatever the two teenagers are talking about, it’s surely something that fires them. And it’s reflected in the voice.
It’s the same in public speaking. I’ve belonged to a public speaking and communications club, part of Toastmasters International, for many years. At every meeting four or five people stand up and deliver a prepared speech for five to seven minutes on a topic of their choosing. All speakers are advised to choose a topic that they are interested in, preferably one they are passionate about. As a result, and this is extraordinary given the range of backgrounds and talents of all these amateur speakers, it’s very seldom that we hear a dud speech. Whatever the topic, the speaker’s enthusiasm for the topic will be conveyed to the audience through above all her voice. No matter how inexperienced the speaker, no matter whether she has learned any of the tricks of vocal variety, the speech will be a winner if the topic brings out the passion in her.
If you want to know whether the passion lies for you in a particular job, try talking about it to a friend. Talk about its daily routines, the kind of people who work there, their ambitions, their achievements. Talk about the pros and cons. Talk about it in relation to other jobs where the hwyl may also lie. Talk about it in relation to ordinary jobs. Talk about it in relation to your current job. Ask your friend to observe how you talk about these jobs. When you speak of this particular job, does your voice become faster, more animated, more impassioned?
Or join Toastmasters! Speak about the job to a small audience. Ask your evaluator beforehand if he’ll note any difference in your vocal variety on this speech, compared with previous speeches. Will the speech convince him too that the job is fascinating?
The passion will be reflected in the voice. If you speak about a job where the passion lies, your voice will confirm it.
But how to find such a job...?
It’ll fill you with drive. To do something about it. To pick up the phone, knock on a door.
Above all, you’ll know you’ve found the passion when you speak about the job. When people talk about something they’re passionate about, the voice changes. The pace quickens. The pitch rises. The volume gets turned up a notch or two.
As an extreme example, take a teenage girl in two situations. Imagine her mother or father asking her how school went that day. The answer comes back monosyllabically, monotonously, ponderously. Then the telephone goes and her best buddy’s on the line. The voice undergoes a metamorphosis. Suddenly it’s animated, rapid, rich in variety of tone, pitch, and volume. Punctuated throughout with laughter. Whatever the two teenagers are talking about, it’s surely something that fires them. And it’s reflected in the voice.
It’s the same in public speaking. I’ve belonged to a public speaking and communications club, part of Toastmasters International, for many years. At every meeting four or five people stand up and deliver a prepared speech for five to seven minutes on a topic of their choosing. All speakers are advised to choose a topic that they are interested in, preferably one they are passionate about. As a result, and this is extraordinary given the range of backgrounds and talents of all these amateur speakers, it’s very seldom that we hear a dud speech. Whatever the topic, the speaker’s enthusiasm for the topic will be conveyed to the audience through above all her voice. No matter how inexperienced the speaker, no matter whether she has learned any of the tricks of vocal variety, the speech will be a winner if the topic brings out the passion in her.
If you want to know whether the passion lies for you in a particular job, try talking about it to a friend. Talk about its daily routines, the kind of people who work there, their ambitions, their achievements. Talk about the pros and cons. Talk about it in relation to other jobs where the hwyl may also lie. Talk about it in relation to ordinary jobs. Talk about it in relation to your current job. Ask your friend to observe how you talk about these jobs. When you speak of this particular job, does your voice become faster, more animated, more impassioned?
Or join Toastmasters! Speak about the job to a small audience. Ask your evaluator beforehand if he’ll note any difference in your vocal variety on this speech, compared with previous speeches. Will the speech convince him too that the job is fascinating?
The passion will be reflected in the voice. If you speak about a job where the passion lies, your voice will confirm it.
But how to find such a job...?
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Strictly Hot Air?
A row has broken out in Britain over the axing of one of the judges from a highly popular talent show on the BBC, Strictly Come Dancing. A highly experienced choreographer, Arlene Phillips, has been replaced as a judge by a previous contest winner, Alesha Dixon.
That sounds innocuous enough. But less so when expressed in tabloidese: Nation’s favorite judge, 66, ousted by hot babe, 30! BBC viewers, average age 52, splutter into their cups of tea…
Respected broadcasters chip in. BBC Newsnight political editor Michael Crick condemns his peers as having “contempt for its viewers”.
Even Government weighs in. Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw warns the BBC not to succumb to “the cult of youth”. Equalities Minister, Harriet Harman, accuses the BBC in Parliament of ageism.
That sounds innocuous enough. But less so when expressed in tabloidese: Nation’s favorite judge, 66, ousted by hot babe, 30! BBC viewers, average age 52, splutter into their cups of tea…
Respected broadcasters chip in. BBC Newsnight political editor Michael Crick condemns his peers as having “contempt for its viewers”.
Even Government weighs in. Culture Minister Ben Bradshaw warns the BBC not to succumb to “the cult of youth”. Equalities Minister, Harriet Harman, accuses the BBC in Parliament of ageism.
The general public has a whinge. First Sharon Osborne gets booted out as a judge of The X Factor, replaced by a young, cutesy (and, incidentally, much better) girl-bander, Cheryl Cole, now the same is to happen in Strictly Come Dancing!
What a load of hot air. As the BBC rightly says, Strictly Come Dancing is an entertainment show. Entertainment shows need continual refreshing. End of story.
Let’s revisit the concept of Key Kapabilities, or K2s. As introduced in the Backing U! books (Chapter 5), they are what employees need to do to succeed in their job. Or, for the self-employed, they’re what they need to get right to be able to meet customer needs and run a sound business.
What were the K2s for the job of judge on Strictly Come Dancing? I don’t know - I used to dance a bit of rock, soul, calypso and reggae in my time, and I would love one day to dance salsa and tango, but I can only imagine. How about if the most important K2s were: proven dancing knowledge; experience; screen presence; blend with other judges; and communication skills?
Phillips had all of that – a choreographer for Broadway and West End shows and Hot Gossip; years of experience; authoritative, pleasing presence; reasonable blend with other judges; and excellent communication of her points.
But after five hugely successful years, the show needed refreshing. And that introduced a new K2 into the mix: freshness.
Enter Dixon. Not a professional dancer, but pretty good and a proven winner on the very show. Good experience of showbusiness, having fronted a successful all-girl R&B band, Miss-Teeq, for 6 years before going solo. Stunning screen presence. Potentially electric blend with other judges. Good communication skills.
And, above all, fresh.
So: not only does Dixon rate highly against the formerly important K2s, but she has no contest against the new K2 of freshness.
It’s a no brainer. Sure, there will be people who see undercurrents of ageism, sexism, looksism, maybe even reverse-racism in the decision, but they are oblivious to the hard, commercial reality of the labor market.
The rules of the game had changed. The contract was up for renewal. Dixon was best placed for the job. Someone wins, someone loses. That’s the labor market. That’s life.
Sure it's tough on Phillips. But she has been fortunate to have had such an amazing employment experience in her 60s, when so many are cast out of the workforce in the private, non-taxpayer funded world in their 50s.
Noone, Mr Crick, Mr Bradshaw, Ms Harman, and other hot air blowers, owes any of us a job.
Saturday, 15 August 2009
A Demand-Driven Approach to Backing Your Passion!
This blog is going to help you find a job or business that consumes you with passion and where you’ll be backable. Take Katherine’s word for it:
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting."—Katherine Hepburn
First a word on the approach we’ll be taking. There are loads of books, e-books, and blogs about changing career. Many of them are excellent and if you want a steer, just ask me!
But they nearly all use the same approach. It’s a bottom-up approach, starting from identifying who you are – your skills, interests, values etc – and then finding a job to match.
I have nothing against this approach. It’s structured, and sound. And it works. But changing career is a big, big step. And you deserve to be introduced to more than one basic approach. You need an alternative - one which may work better for you.
This blog's approach starts from the other end. It’s a top-down approach. You’ll find a job that you love and then work out whether it’s right for you. As distinct from the other way round.
In business-speak, it’s a demand-driven, not a supply-pushed approach.
In most cases it should get you to same end-point. But I hope you’ll find this approach simpler and more inspirational. You’ll find out why later…
In this top-down, demand-driven, passion-driven approach, you’ll start with where you’d like to end up. What job would you love to have? In which job would you be happy? It could, according to Abraham, be yours!
"You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish, if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."—Abraham Lincoln
Which job can you think of where work would no longer be “work”? You would be so fired up that it wouldn’t seem like work at all. You would rush to work in the morning and you wouldn’t want to leave in the evening.
Who would you most like to be? Whose job, or business, do you most covet? If you were in his or her job, would you consider that you had the dream job?
In which job would you be consumed with passion? You would feel such emotion, such fervor, such spirit about the job that you would be uplifted to extremes of success.
This is the top-down approach. It’s demand driven, in that it seeks to pinpoint those jobs that attract you to them, that draw you toward them. Rather than supply pushed, where you steer yourself toward a job that suits your skills, interests, and values.
And it’s driven by passion. The job will entice you with its promise of passion.
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting."—Katherine Hepburn
First a word on the approach we’ll be taking. There are loads of books, e-books, and blogs about changing career. Many of them are excellent and if you want a steer, just ask me!
But they nearly all use the same approach. It’s a bottom-up approach, starting from identifying who you are – your skills, interests, values etc – and then finding a job to match.
I have nothing against this approach. It’s structured, and sound. And it works. But changing career is a big, big step. And you deserve to be introduced to more than one basic approach. You need an alternative - one which may work better for you.
This blog's approach starts from the other end. It’s a top-down approach. You’ll find a job that you love and then work out whether it’s right for you. As distinct from the other way round.
In business-speak, it’s a demand-driven, not a supply-pushed approach.
In most cases it should get you to same end-point. But I hope you’ll find this approach simpler and more inspirational. You’ll find out why later…
In this top-down, demand-driven, passion-driven approach, you’ll start with where you’d like to end up. What job would you love to have? In which job would you be happy? It could, according to Abraham, be yours!
"You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish, if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."—Abraham Lincoln
Which job can you think of where work would no longer be “work”? You would be so fired up that it wouldn’t seem like work at all. You would rush to work in the morning and you wouldn’t want to leave in the evening.
Who would you most like to be? Whose job, or business, do you most covet? If you were in his or her job, would you consider that you had the dream job?
In which job would you be consumed with passion? You would feel such emotion, such fervor, such spirit about the job that you would be uplifted to extremes of success.
This is the top-down approach. It’s demand driven, in that it seeks to pinpoint those jobs that attract you to them, that draw you toward them. Rather than supply pushed, where you steer yourself toward a job that suits your skills, interests, and values.
And it’s driven by passion. The job will entice you with its promise of passion.
Monday, 10 August 2009
Putting Passion into Your Career Change!
Are you fed up at work?
If so, you’re not alone. You could be one of the 50% of US employees who are "dissatisfied" with their job, up from 40% a decade ago. Or one of the 50% of UK employees who feel they are “stuck in the wrong job”. Or one of a similarly high proportion somewhere else on the globe.
If you’re not fed up, or if you are fed up but determined to stay and perform better in your current job, good on you. This blog isn't for you, but you might want to take a look at Becoming More Backable, which forms Part II of the Backing U! books*.
But if you’re thinking of career change, read on. That’s the focus of this blog. Let it be your guide. Use it to look for a job or business where your passion lies... and where you’ll have a good chance of succeeding!
Look for a job where you’ll be backable. Where you’ll be backing the passion!
There’s no point in shifting to a job you know you’ll be good at, but you only feel so-so about it. You’ll soon become dissatisfied in your new job, like you are where you are now.
Likewise, there’s no point in shifting to a job you’re passionate about but no good at! You may be hopelessly under-qualified or inexperienced for that job. You won’t get far.
Your new job or business should fulfil both conditions. It’ll fill with you with passion. And it’s one where you can do at least reasonably well.
That’s what this blog is about. Over the weeks and months it’s going to help you find a job you love and which you can do successfully.
The blog will borrow freely from Backing U!, especially Part III on Backing the Hwyl - the Celtic concept of passion, fervor, spirit. But you won’t need to buy the book to follow the blog. It will be self-contained. A coherent story will appear in these posts, with handy references from one post to another. Nothing relevant will be held back. Its over-riding aim will be to help you, not me.
We’ll meet a number of exemplars in the blog. They won't be the same folk as in Backing U!. They’ll be new – some imaginary, some real, some celebs. Some, I hope, will be you, as the site becomes interactive and readers begin to offer their own experiences.
Along the way, we may look at other blogs, newspaper or magazine articles, books, audio or video clips.
And, now and again, we’ll have some light relief...
Here we go!
* Backing U! A Business-Oriented Guide to Backing Your Passion and Achieving Career Success, www.backingu.com/2, or
Backing U! LITE: A Quick-Read Guide to Backing Your Passion and Achieving Career Success, www.backingu.com/3
If so, you’re not alone. You could be one of the 50% of US employees who are "dissatisfied" with their job, up from 40% a decade ago. Or one of the 50% of UK employees who feel they are “stuck in the wrong job”. Or one of a similarly high proportion somewhere else on the globe.
If you’re not fed up, or if you are fed up but determined to stay and perform better in your current job, good on you. This blog isn't for you, but you might want to take a look at Becoming More Backable, which forms Part II of the Backing U! books*.
But if you’re thinking of career change, read on. That’s the focus of this blog. Let it be your guide. Use it to look for a job or business where your passion lies... and where you’ll have a good chance of succeeding!
Look for a job where you’ll be backable. Where you’ll be backing the passion!
There’s no point in shifting to a job you know you’ll be good at, but you only feel so-so about it. You’ll soon become dissatisfied in your new job, like you are where you are now.
Likewise, there’s no point in shifting to a job you’re passionate about but no good at! You may be hopelessly under-qualified or inexperienced for that job. You won’t get far.
Your new job or business should fulfil both conditions. It’ll fill with you with passion. And it’s one where you can do at least reasonably well.
That’s what this blog is about. Over the weeks and months it’s going to help you find a job you love and which you can do successfully.
The blog will borrow freely from Backing U!, especially Part III on Backing the Hwyl - the Celtic concept of passion, fervor, spirit. But you won’t need to buy the book to follow the blog. It will be self-contained. A coherent story will appear in these posts, with handy references from one post to another. Nothing relevant will be held back. Its over-riding aim will be to help you, not me.
We’ll meet a number of exemplars in the blog. They won't be the same folk as in Backing U!. They’ll be new – some imaginary, some real, some celebs. Some, I hope, will be you, as the site becomes interactive and readers begin to offer their own experiences.
Along the way, we may look at other blogs, newspaper or magazine articles, books, audio or video clips.
And, now and again, we’ll have some light relief...
Here we go!
* Backing U! A Business-Oriented Guide to Backing Your Passion and Achieving Career Success, www.backingu.com/2, or
Backing U! LITE: A Quick-Read Guide to Backing Your Passion and Achieving Career Success, www.backingu.com/3
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