Be Your Own Mentor

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• IntroductionDump the “Gotta Get Me a Coach” Approach and Start Looking Within!Your Self-Transformation Starts HereTake Control—Become the Primary Navigator in Your LifeTake Control—You Are the Sole Navigator in Your LifeMentor Yourself toward Courage and HopeFear—The Great DebilitatorEstablish Platinum Standards That Reflect the Best in YouBe Accountable for Your Choices—Each One Represents Your Intellect and Self-EsteemYour Four-Part Formula for Success Starts HerePart 1: Free Yourself!1. Traditional Career Planning Will Be Gone As We Know ItGet Ready to Join the Ranks of Free Agent Globalization!Good-Bye to Traditional Career PlanningThe Future of Career PlanningCareer Development Requires Boundaryless Careers and Boundaryless ThinkingManager’s Checklist for Chapter 12. Designing Your Best LifeNo, You Can’t Be Anything You Want to BePeople’s Expectations of UsMaking Ugly PrettyTo Be Your Own Mentor, You Must Nurture Your NatureDesign a Do-It-Yourself Career and Personal Success Life StrategyA Guidance System and Compasses to Help You Be Your Own MentorActivating the SystemHow to Get StartedTake Control: Design Your Dream LifeStart a Binder or JournalThe Million-Dollar Question: Why Am I Doing This, Anyway?Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 23. So Long, Organizational Worker—Hello, Entrepreneurial Thinker!Make Employees Feel like Partners and FamilyThree Steps to Mentoring People to Think like EntrepreneursManager’s Checklist for Chapter 3Part 2: Think for Yourself!4. Mentor Intelligent Risk-TakingStar Managers Mentor Intelligent Risk-Taking and So Do Movie StarsYou’re Sure to Miss 100 Percent of the Shots You Don’t TakeEveryone Makes Mistakes and That’s a Good Thing!Risk Taking Is Empowerment with a Bow Tie at This World-Class HotelManager’s Checklist for Chapter 45. The Schoolhouse No Longer RocksWelcome to Free Agent Education and the Rule to UnschoolUnschooling Ourselves for Higher EducationManager’s Checklist for Chapter 56. Ghosts of Life-Coaching Mentors Past and PresentThree Ghostly Visitors We All Could UseAppoint Real-Life Mentors and Coaches to Your Life Board of DirectorsLife Board Members Are Mentors Who Help Us Reinvent OurselvesCultivate Mentors Who Support Your Dreams and Fill Your TankThe How-To Part of Making It HappenEven Madonna and Al Gore Reinvent Themselves—What Are You Waiting For?Manager’s Checklist for Chapter 6Part 3: Reinvent Yourself!7. The Circus That Won’t Stop Reinventing ItselfCirque du Soleil—A Paragon of InnovationCirque du Soleil: Mini Case Study on a Very Successful Business ModelManager’s Checklist for Chapter 78. Real-World ReinventorsWe Reinvent Ourselves Crafting Life’s Second ActsThe Ex-Offender Who Reinvented HimselfDon’t Talk about It, Be about It!The Doctor Is InA Doctor Starting Over from ScratchThe Peace Corps Volunteer Who Would Be Texan and Grande Dame of DiningIndispensable and a Joy to ReadKeeping the Faith under Superhuman StressReinventing Herself—From Public Assistance Recipient to World-Renowned AuthorManager’s Checklist for Chapter 89. Being Your Own Mentor Is like Doing Stand-Up Comedy—Whose Line Is It, Anyway?Igniting Yourself Is All About Adapting Life’s Lessons to Suit Your Individual NeedsThe Creative Way a Stand-Up Comic Ignites LaughterManager’s Checklist for Chapter 9Part 4: Ignite Yourself!10. Why Your Self-Esteem Is Directly Related to Your IntelligenceIntelligence in ActionHundreds of Intelligences to Choose FromWhat Really Predicts Your Success in LifeManager’s Checklist for Chapter 1011. Reignite Yourself with the Power of KarmaWhat Are You Putting Out There? Is It Glorious or Is It Toxic?Being Your Own Mentor Requires Good Karma, Because Your Actions Will Come Back Full CircleTake This Self-Esteem to Good Karma QuizManager’s Checklist for Chapter 11ConclusionIndex