Presentation to the Employment 4 Life Group. Some ideas on leaving career baggage at the curb.

1. Got Career Baggage?
Erich 'Sumo' Switzer

2. Baggage - definition
1) things that encumber one's progress or
development

3. Baggage - definition
1) things that encumber one's progress or
development
2) impediments: intellectual baggage that
keeps one from thinking clearly

4. Baggage - definition
1) things that encumber one's progress or
development
2) impediments: intellectual baggage that
keeps one from thinking clearly
3) the person looking back at you in the mirror

5. Ancient Sumoism
"He who has too much baggage,
not travel far."

6. What's in your baggage?

7. Where does our baggage come from?

8. Baggage can start anywhere...

9. 1985 - Map to Success
Retire
Work
Graduate High School

10. What's Your Career Journey
Retire
● What stops have you made along the
way?
Start ● Why did you make them?
● What would you do differently?
Working

11. Can you believe it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zLYECIjmnQs

12. Ancient Sumoism
"Failing is not what defines us...it is
what we do after it happens that
matters!"

13. Where are you going?

14. Ancient Sumoism
"If you don't know where you are going,
you won't know when you are there."

15. Finding your map & compass
● Develop new skills
● Career Coach
● Journaling
● Counselor
● Accountability Partner or Group

16. Ancient Sumoism
"If your mind can see where you are going,
the rest of you will follow"