Dec11

Stress: Finding Your Niche

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Seeking your niche can find you in a chaos of ideas and the skills that you know are your strengths and your weaknesses. In some ways our minds in this situation reflect the world in which we live — clutter and noise bombard us, making the chance to sort our options almost impossible or overwhelming. Here are some ways to lower the stress and find focus.

  • Stop thinking and breathe.
  • Relax. Reflect. Look at a lovely photograph. Clear your mind.
  • Get out of the present.
  • Move to the future.
  • See what you want to be three years from now.
  • Describe what that person does.
  • Explain how that person has organized your skill set.
  • Identify the voids, if any.
  • Define your niche around what you saw in that future picture.
  • Write a business plan to support that niche.

Now, you’ve got a target, an idea of what your future looks like — a niche to grow into. It’s time to get started carving out the space in which you’ll stand. Stress falls off when we know what to do.

Liz Strauss

Behind every Successful business is an Outstanding manager. –Perfect Virtual Manager

 

  • http://www.techzonline.net TechZ

    Nicely listed steps Liz, its taking the first step towards it that holds us back I think. Once you get the momentum,nothing can stop you but you.

  • http://www.techzonline.net TechZ

    Nicely listed steps Liz, its taking the first step towards it that holds us back I think. Once you get the momentum,nothing can stop you but you.

  • http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com Liz Strauss

    Hi TechZ,
    Yeah, it’s an irony, or maybe not, how the one thing that’s supposed to be automatic and natural — breathing — is something we forget or close control of first. If we can keep our breathing in our control, the rest seem to fall into place more easily . . .

  • http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com Liz Strauss

    Hi TechZ,
    Yeah, it’s an irony, or maybe not, how the one thing that’s supposed to be automatic and natural — breathing — is something we forget or close control of first. If we can keep our breathing in our control, the rest seem to fall into place more easily . . .

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