What to Do Next
Taking Your Best Step When Life Is Uncertain
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
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If you want to change your career and circumstances but aren't sure how, this practical guide from business leader Jeff Henderson will help you reevaluate your purpose and determine your next best step.
Navigating what's next in life--whether in your career, personal life, or relationships--often brings a level of uncertainty and anxiety and presents more questions than answers. Entrepreneur, speaker, and pastor Jeff Henderson has experienced this firsthand--first when he left his marketing position at Chick-fil-A to start a church and nonprofit, and then again when he left that nonprofit in the middle of a global pandemic to . . . well, he didn't know. He just knew he needed to make a move.
This insightful book outlines the process he used to determine the next best step for him and how you, too, can pursue more meaning and purpose in your life and work. Sharing personal stories and best practices he's learned along the way, he eloquently and practically guides you through the minefield of knowing what's next by helping you:
Take the Career Risk Calculator and discover if you're ready for changePlan for change--both the changes you want and the changes you can't see comingCultivate "optimal options" in your life that will guide you to better decision-making when the time comesIdentify what to do and what not to do when making decisions about what's nextExchange fear, confusion, and hopelessness for confidence, freedom, and purpose
The next chapter of your life starts today, with one simple step. And you'll know how to take that step because you know What to Do Next.
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Marketing consultant and former pastor Henderson (Know What You're For) presents a ho-hum guide to plotting career changes. Henderson draws on his time in corporate marketing and the clergy to share lessons on "managing risk, discovering the strongest version of you, and how to build a life you enjoy" when contemplating a new career. Henderson illustrates his advice with anecdotes about how he left a lucrative marketing position at Chic-fil-A to launch a video church, and later walked away from the lead pastor role at Gwinnet Church in Atlanta to start a marketing consultancy. Providing sensible if predictable strategies for coping with the risk of leaving one's job, the author advises readers to have a financial cushion in case the opportunity doesn't work out and to maintain good relationships with one's coworkers so that one can return to one's former employer if needed. His recommendations for starting anew also trend toward the commonsensical and include networking, finding a successful figure to emulate, and converting "negative thought patterns into positive ones." Other suggestions come across as out-of-touch and impractical, such as when he encourages readers to develop a "personal advisory board" made up of experienced professionals who will meet with the reader once every several weeks in exchange for a free meal. This will leave readers wanting.
