Inspiration – Be Ready – Then Act On It

By Sandy Prock M.Ed., JCTC, Co-Owner of www.ExpertExecutiveResume.com

You may be used to making decisions.

How comfortable are you taking a time-out and waiting for an inspired decision to present itself to you? If you are not comfortable with this idea, reconsider for a moment and consider trying something new.

Inspiration or intuition is not just for artistic types of people. Inspiration is there for us all, if we are open and willing to hear when insight may softly present itself to you. If we are not alert, inspiration will leave as quietly as it arrives.

Artists understand the delicate nature of inspiration. They often go to great lengths and nourish rituals to invite this delicate and polite muse.

Even if you operate more from your rational mind, if you are looking for a new career direction or a new job, flashes of new bright ideas cannot hurt. Although most often it feels more like a gentle nudge.

Consider letting go, and occasionally stopping – taking a time out from worry and left-brain thinking. True, this is not necessarily easy. However, it is achievable. Set your mind to it. Sounds like a paradox to set your mind to “letting go” - However, as you may know there is great power in focus. With focus, you are alert. When you are alert, you are more open to recognizing and hearing the soft knock of inspiration, new ideas, insight or intuition.

When you “let go” you are cultivating soil for synchronicity and happy accidents to bloom. Great movie directors often rely on happy accidents. Are you open to happy accidents?

Consider following your small still voice, even if it feels unusual and see where it takes you. Maybe in some surprising place you will meet a long lost friend who knows of a new start-up company and they are looking for someone just like you. You may read of an opportunity in a journal or online. You may have an inspiring dream. Ideas are born from every conceivable place you can think of and surprising places, you may not normally think of. Consider being open and see what happens.

When you are looking to create a new life, find a new job or make a new career move, it can pay great dividends to open yourself to new ways of thinking, even small adjustments in your perception or small ideas can pay off. After all, you are looking for something new. Stepping into anything new often arrives with new ideas, new ventures and new ways of doing things and sometimes in surprising places.

Listen deeply to your small still voice within and see what new ideas arrive on your doorstep. Consider being on alert for your inspiration and then take action.

Make sure your resume, cover letter and other job search documents make you shine and stand out. Now is not the time to be shy. Present and be your best and land the job of your dreams and the job that you want.

Bob Prock won a national resume writing award. If you have any questions about your resume, cover letter or other job search documents feel free to call Bob at 1-864-292-5288 or email him at ExpertResume@yahoo.com

Bob and I wish you the best in your career and job search!

Sandy Prock M.Ed. (Masters in Education – Vocational Guidance and Counseling), JCTC (Job and Transition Coach), Co-Owner of www.ExpertExecutiveResume.com