1.New Directions In Charting Your Course Carol C. Malysz,Vice President, New Directions, Inc.

2. New Directions, Inc.

Founded in 1986a national firm

Located in downtown Boston

Over 2,600 alums nation-wide

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Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. Every mans and womans foremost task is the actualization of his and her unique, unprecedented and never-recurring possibilities.

Martin Buber

4. New Directions.. We help executives, professionals, andtheir families discover new life/work pathways. 5. Pathways include full time employment,entrepreneurship, consulting, boarddirectorship, non-profit leadership orLife Portfolio. 6. What is Life Portfolio?

A mindset and approach that

• Promotes career and life choices aligned with who you are

• Develops greater control over life and career

• Balances life, career, family, community, spirituality, etc.

7. What is a Portfolio?

Portfolio: a movable carrying case, a portable book, a presentation of who each of us is the whole me, not just the career me

Several components

• Financial

• Family

• Learning

• Leisure/hobbies

• Giving back

8. Life Before Life Portfolio Internal Drivers Passion Energy Purpose Calling Skills Experience Credentials Wisdom Values Motivations Legacy ExternalRealities Financial Health and wellbeing Caregiving Spouse/partner preferences Locations Vocation/Profession Family/ Friends 9. Life Portfolio How Do You Want to Allocate Your Time? Vocation/ Profession Community/ Humanitarian Avocation/ Recreation Family/ Friends Community Leisure Internal Drivers Passion Energy Purpose Calling Skills Experience Credentials Wisdom Values Motivations Legacy External Realities Financial Health and wellbeing Caregiving Spouse/partner preferences Locations Vocation/ Profession Self Development/ Spiritual 10. Portfolio Mindset

What are your core values?

Balance time and energy among important but competing needs, dreams

Consciously reflect on what we feel is worth living formove toward it all through life

Portfolio is an adaptable process goes on as long as we do

11. Benefits to You

Maximize fulfillment, contribution, satisfaction

Build, maintain legacy

Resurface past skills, interest, values, dreams

Reconnect with family, friends and others

Confidence that financial assumptions are linked to life plans

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Careers have a shelf life.

Portfolios are ageless. Timeless. 13. 6 Steps to Charting Your Course

Decide What You Want

Set Goals

Develop Your Personal Action Plan

Tell Your Story

Overcome Obstacles

Find Fulfillment

14. 1.Decide What You Want

Determine which parts of your life need work

Commit to making the decision to change

Ask what now?Whats next for me?

Shifting directions makes life more interesting

and fulfilling

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Take steps toward advancing your dream

Road ahead is based on choices you make 16.

Find Your Passion

• Get Into Neutral

• Retell Your Life Story

• Write a Personal Mission Statement

• Involve Others

• Be Interested.and Be Interesting!

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Follow needs hunches intuitions whatfeelsright

Its a process

• Patience

• Slow down

• Less is more

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Take risksbe bold

• Thomas Edison came up with over 3000 filaments before he developed the light bulb

• Thomas Watson (IBM) when asked howto be more successful: Double your failure rate.

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Know yourself

• Take an inventory of your assets, motivations, values and interests...it will open up new possibilities

• Broaden your sense of yourself to attain greater happiness and fulfillment

• Try on new behaviors, habits, interests

• Reclaim the real younot the corporate you

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What unfinished business inside?

• Clues from history

• Verbs are your future, not nouns

Create a personal Board of Advisors

Your calling where deep gladness meets the needs of the world

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I knew I was called when I was validated by others.People I respect and admire told me

Youre in the right place ! 22. 2.Define Your Goals

Develop a pattern of making choices toachieve your goals

Keep moving forward

Youre in control of what youd like to change

Dont use fear and lack of money as an excuse

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These are your goals its your turn.

• Break large goals down to achievable objectives

Create theidealday, week, month, year

24. 3.Develop a Personal Action Plan

Why make a plan?

• Makes your vision real

• Measures your success

• Keeps you on track

Get ideas from your head to a piece of paper.

Write it down! 25.

Curb temptation to act too fast

Stop-look-listen

Live in the white space

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Consciously reflect on what we feel worth living for

• • Look inward for inspiration.

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Its a processa marathon

Run it one pole at a time 28.

We have a financial planwhy not a life plan?

• We should be laying the basis for future activities in the midst of our current careers.The pay off is being able to seize an exhilarating second wind in our lives William Safire

29. 4.Tell Your Story

How am I different?

What is my greatest and clearest strength?

What is my greatest contribution?

What am I known for?

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Start with the ending

As soon as I created an ending, the apprehension went away. I became aware of so many new things New Directions client 31.

Ask yourself

• What opportunities to develop to satisfy/growth your skills and ambitions?

• What commitments do you want to make to family, friends?

• What adventures did you set aside when you started your career?

• What are my children (and spouse) doing that I wish I could do?

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• Be curious

• Solicit advice

• Get referrals, introductions, endorsements

• Go on exploratory meetings

• Be open to serendipity

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• Use your connections

• Be proactive: reach out and pick up the phone

• Meet for coffee

• Engage your Big 200

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Reposition yourself and create new networks

New places with new attitudes

New places with similar interests

Your Press Kit (Bio, resume, letters, press release, your cardmission statement)

Your Elevator Drill

Be persistent. Practice reciprocity

35. 5.Overcome Obstacles

Emotions identify how youre feeling

Need closure from the past (slow downview from 10,000 feet)

Familiar anchors (titles, perks, routines, brands)

No one calls me back

Relationships may change

Income may change

Business vs. Busy-ness

• A fit with overall goalsor just demands on your time

36. 6.Find Fulfillment

Its good to have an end to journey towardsbut its the journey that matters in the end.

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Live everything.Live the questions now.Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

38. New Directions, Inc. The Life Portfolio Company

Creating new opportunities, not just finding them

For more information contact:

Carol C. Malysz

Vice President, New Directions

131 Oliver Street

Boston, MA 02110

617-624-3112

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www.newdirections.com