Slide presentation from a keynote in Boulder, Colorado April 2010.

1. Jump Start Your Job Search! Four Action Steps for Choosing Growth Over Fear and Achieving ANY Goal Presented By: Don Strankowski Ascend Career and Life Strategies, LLC

6. "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." - B.C. Forbes, Founder, Forbes magazine (1917)

9. Assignment : 1- What are two activities you’ve been putting off re: the job search? 2- What ONE THING will you do today to TAKE ACTION ? Eat the Frog!

10. What keeps us from taking action ?

11. FEAR!

12. “ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” -Mark Twain

14. “ If you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse.” - Pat Riley Former professional basketball head coach

18. “ There is no finish line ”

19. Ascend Career and Life Strategies LLC 4845 Pearl East Circle, Suite 101 Boulder, Colorado 80301 www.AscendCareers.net 303-245-7049 [email_address]