Entries by Janice Bastani

Today, as I was reading a morning spiritual uplifting piece, it occurred to me that there are many of you out there who are sitting on the bench with a "wealth" of talent, a "wealth" of skill, and an enormous amount of intellect who are just waiting for something to happen. It is as if you are waiting for the "coach" to put you in the game.

If you are sitting there on the bench, I would greatly encourage you to get in the game yourself and start by forming your own team of individuals who can become a large mastermind team. Advertise by posting a flier or card in your local YMCA, or coffee shop or library or online in a couple of places and just set a meeting time and date at a local coffee shop or diner and go and see who shows up. You might be pleasantly surprised! Bring along a business book or magazine that is on the topic which you are interested in and make a list of suggestions as to things you could discuss or how you could pool you collective "time resources" and do some leg work to finding out where some jobs are in your area. Agree to meet back in a week at a time and place which is local to everyone who came that day. Encourage everyone to bring one more person the next time. Have a way to collect everyone's contact information.

I would encourage you to get out there and to start "Mentoring" someone who is just a couple of years behind you in the world of business. You already hold a wealth of knowledge from the years that you have worked. There are thousands of college kids who will graduate with no job offers once they move back home. What a perfect audience hungry for information.

Here's another idea: LISTEN where EMPLOYERS are talking. Where do you think that is?

Remember here, the idea is not to get bogged down in discouragement and mire of not having. It is all about making the most of the time that you have at this moment to facilitate change, and sometimes that is in your own life first.

If you are in any of the 48 States in the US during these past few weeks, you will have a heavy dose of "WHITE" outside covering your life. There are a couple of things that immediately come to mind.

YEA!!!!! No School (kids mind)
OH NO!!!! No School (parent's mind)

GREAT!! Leave work at noon (worker's mind)
OH Yeh?! No work no pay (worker's mind)

Snowed In, a time to kick back and have a nice meal, play with the kids, watch a favorite movie, sleep in.
or
Shovel the walks, the driveway, we're out of groceries and the road is bad and the grocery has closed early.

"In your weather forecast today...more snow....." "Are you kidding me....I can't take any more snow!
"you know it is winter and this is February....this is what "WINTER" is all about.

Each one of these statements comes from two distinct places.

One is very Anabolic, meaning it is positive, light hearted and the person most likely is enjoying what is going on outside their window.

The other is very Catabolic, meaning it is negative and the person only sees the down side to what is going on outside their window.

Where are you on this snowy day?