When Last We Met e2v1

Friends are the first people to tell you about your career. They see you as the person you are at your best and they recognize what you have to offer the world. They understand your weaknesses and work to insert their support into your life without causing you any more harm or suffering.

Most of my adult friendships are about getting together occasionally over time and for circumstances. Some friendships exist, but long breaks happen in between. 

And some of them happen because of my job as a recruiter. 

The people who have endorsed me on my LinkedIn profile are doing so because they understand me at a level that they appreciate and respect. They recognize that I have a lot to offer and they want to demonstrate their support in a small but meaningful way.

We met, because we had reason to. They trusted me because they chose to. They endorsed me because I did not let them down in the time we had together.

I started writing without knowing fully, what the book was going to be about, aside from a book on Career Success. I needed to understand my own career better and decided that it was appropriate to learn from people who were more successful than I was.  As a Recruiter I had that opportunity, every day. 

Career is this tricky subject that we don't ever really talk about. How to be successful in your career is something that almost never comes up. It's a different kind of conversation that more of us need to have and in a different context than our current results are generating. 

What I've written about is a big idea. It's about the paper trail of progress and how you turn your experience into expertise. It's about being smarter than you are told that you are and building your future on foundations you don't yet recognize how to set. It's about finding opportunities and catapulting yourself into them. It's about empowering you and your future. 

It's a big idea and I didn't come all this way to let you down.

It's their job, but it's your career. Days away.

When Last We Met e1v1

Good Ideas come along every once in a while that you just have to follow. This is one that I had to follow through on, all the way. It was just too good to ignore.

It may take a while to tell this story, so I'd like you to subscribe.  It's a good one and you're going to want to know about this. I only have 5 followers on this blog, and most people don't know the benefits of subscribing to things, so if you would demonstrate your interest by subscribing it sets a precedent for others to follow, that it's OK to follow. This is a very good time to come along for the ride, here's why:

I solved Career and I'm explaining to anyone how to have a more successful career of their own, from now on in the modern economy. If you think I'm wrong, that's OK. It's my job to help, not to convince you that I'm right. I already know this stuff, so I'm not worried. It's my choice to share this knowledge to hopefully help others achieve more in their working lifetime than they would without having whatever it is that I know and am sharing.

It's different than anything else, because there are no other major career management solutions on the market, at all. I was accidentally challenged at the exact right time, in the exact right way to spur my imagination into dreaming up a way that could actually improve the economy. A big boast, but a smart insight.

A Friend of mine who wishes to remain unmentioned by name, told me several years ago that I could help anybody in their careers. He could not have been more clear as he pushed his index finger into my chest: "You! Rob Segall! If you can do this for me?!, You can do this for Anybody. Anybody!"

"You are responsible for all of my professional success" is what I want to remember him saying, but he made it clear, "Thank You" and he gave me credit.  I understood what he was talking about.

I understood that what I had given to him was a very small piece of support at a critical time when he needed it the most about some sticky situations at work. He never forgot me and he made it a point to come back and to inspire me to follow my own advice.  Because it works, because it's right and because he wanted me to know to trust own judgment.

So, I believed him and I believed in myself at the exact same time. And that's what has gotten all of this going, here and now. It's not perfect, and not where I thought it would be, but it's here, now to talk about and step into.

My nameless friend was the first to tell me that I needed to write a book. We agreed, but I didn't know what to write about or even how to write a book- so it didn't get written. The first book was going to be called: Phrases that Work, but it was too loose an idea and I wasn't ready to tackle it. Ten years later, here he is giving me credit for his professional success and encouraging me again to write a book. I still didn't know what to write about, but he was inspiring me to remember that I could.

He had followed my advice and applied his experience to what comes next from actually following through. That's the key, actually following through. He did the work, and has made a great life for himself, jam pack filled with opportunities that are of his own making.  He showed me that I was right and gave me the confidence to follow this all the way through.

Write a book, yes. But then I had to figure out what to write about, learn how to write about it and get through it, all the way. All the while surviving in this world with a successful transition of my own to work with.
He said anyone but I mistook his challenge to mean, everyone.

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Cheers to the Future,
Rob Segall
www.robsegall.com