If you want to make a meaningful job or career change,  you’ll need to get scrappy!

Getting scrappy means:

• acting on random ideas
• being willing to get something wrong, or make a mess of it 
• accepting there’s no ‘right’ way to do anything
• following your curiosity

After a 3-decade career in healthcare, Ken was seeking a job with a company truly dedicated to helping people, where his analytics and team building/strategic skills would be valued.

But he resisted reaching out to people doing what he’s drawn to. 

He reached out, yes, But to people working in healthcare companies he’d known his entire career. Companies with standard industry models and ways of operating that he found suffocating. 

Ken was afraid of showing up at a party he’d wanted to attend for years and being asked to leave. So he kept doing the safe outreach – even though he knew he was capable of much more. 

Hiring a coach was Ken getting scrappy. He knew he needed to do something different, so he talked to people and eventually found me. Since working together his outreach has become much more scrappy – he reaches out to unknown people, and acts on off-the-beaten track ideas. 

It wasn’t an overnight change, but interesting opportunities started to show up. And Ken started feeling a confidence and ease within himself that he’d wanted for decades.

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Getting a new job, rather than a replica of the one you’re trying to walk away from, takes courage and stepping out of your comfort zone. 

So this week I encourage you to get scrappy.

It can be a lot of fun, open you up to exciting new ideas and opportunities, and help you feel more you. 

You really are worth it.