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Transferable Skills, What are Yours?

Guest post by: shelli thompson

Article Overview: We all have skills that we use each and every day in the things that we do. What skills do you have that you could use in different areas of your life? To improve your life or the lives of others.

Transferable Skills, What are Yours?

We all seem to be getting used to the bad economy and People seem to like comparing them self to others that are not doing as well as they are. When in reality they are not much better off. Why this comparison should make anyone feel better about their own circumstances is really beyond me.

We all read the constant negative news on how each state in our country faces a huge challenge in balancing their budgets due to the bad economy. California seems to be leading the way as the governor is decreasing the wages of the government workers (you know he must be desperate) to minimum wage.

Can you imagine how that must feel to the government employees that thought they and their jobs were invincible? There must be total shock and dismay that they now will be reduced to dealing with the bad economy along with everyone else

Recently I have noticed from people that I talk with that the cities are using traffic infractions to raise funds, they pull you over for one thing and add on what ever they can before they let you go. Is this going to be the new "norm"?

It is already bad enough that they want to eliminate physical education completely from our schools, every fee has increased at local government levels. In one year the permit for a single family home went from $14,000 to $23,000 and the government is hollering for affordable housing. It is the very government that is making housing un-affordable. Not that it really matters because in the month of May new home purchases plunged 33% to an all time low.

Our local governments will have to realize you can not squeeze blood from a turnip. People are stretched to their limits right now and many are to the point of breaking. We keep hearing that the bad economy is improving but the hard cold facts are that it sure does not feel like it.

Many people are suffering and now it seems that a lot of them will be receiving their last unemployment check, so what is next for them?

We asked that question several years ago and there were no easy answers. The words that kept coming to us were re-invent yourself, or undergo transformation and that was all very sound advise but with no direction.

It does not take very long for a person to realize that we have the choice to go in the direction that we want, it is selecting the direction that can be difficult.

Where do you see yourself in five years? What do you want to be doing and how are you going to get to that point? These are the questions that will help you with your direction.

That is where the work begins.

Since our transformation we have found that in order to get what you want, you need to put in the work, there is no other way, no short cuts. In the end the rewards are greater than what you set out to achieve.

What that means is that we set our goals and where we wanted to be and because we were willing to work hard, step out of our comfort zone and give up a few things we were able to accomplish so much more and go beyond the goals we had set, and this is possible for anyone to do.

Because everyone has TRANSFERABLE SKILLS, you may not realize what yours are right at this moment but you have them I guarantee.

The transferable skills that you posses are the foundation to your success, you just need to identify them and put them to work in new and innovative ways.

Make your self a list of all of the tasks you complete in a day and the skills that it takes to do that, but do not stop there.

Make a list of your hobbies and things you love to do and the skills it requires to enable you to do those things. This last list will most likely include your passion and your passion is a good place to operate from. This is a list of your transferable skills.

We found that in order to be truly successful you need to do something that you enjoy, work from your passion and you will enjoy success.

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