Carry a Paintbrush

by Susanne Goldstein

Overview

What if your career were yours to paint? What if, by simply carrying an imaginary Bucket of Paint and a Paintbrush, you could paint yourself into any professional situation?

The Paintbrush, according to respected Career Artist Susanne Goldstein, is the only tool you'll need to Paint Doorways into the career and job you've always wanted.

Even in the most challenging and impenetrable job markets, Goldstein s Paintbrush methodology works because it shifts the focus away from going after jobs, and places it on harnessing good luck, developing relationships with in people, and knowing how to convert opportunity into reality.

Goldstein uses stories (including how she broke into Hollywood in six weeks), frameworks, techniques and exercises that urge readers to upend the way they think about their working lives.

Carrying a Paintbrush will help readers:
* Identify the sweet spot where their passions, interest and skills intersect
* Learn to create opportunities where others see challenges
* Meet and get support from influencers already in the field
* Develop a unique and compelling personal story
* Get unstuck

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015207637
Publisher:	Arvida Press
Publication date:	04/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	219
File size:	606 KB

About the Author

Susanne Goldstein is an author, business strategist, master storyteller, practical problem solver, career expert, filmmaker, engineer, user experience designer who has helped countless individuals, teams, companies, and audiences define what success means to them, and accelerate their ability to achieve it.

Editorial Reviews

"In this charming book, Susanne Goldstein argues compellingly that the opportunities of a lifetime are not given, but created — and, with an artist’s eye, sketches out helpful ways to create them. Susanne writes with warmth and imagination, sharing insight from a life fully lived."

David Gergen

“Once you begin Carry A Paintbrush you won’t want to put it, or your Paintbrush down. Both open possibilities to the life you may have always imagined for yourself, but may not have known how to achieve. Susanne Goldstein can teach it because she has lived it. At a time when the future and how we fit in it seems more confusing than ever, along comes this very practical volume that combines personal wisdom and professional experience to paint an irresistibly inviting portrait of the

Billy Shore

“Colleges prepare students for everything academic and very little that is practical. Students graduate having very little idea about what they want to do in life and even less of an idea about how to go about getting what they want. Where do they turn for practical wisdom on what to do next and how to do it? Susanne Goldstein’s book is meant to help these lost souls. She has prepared a set of well written pieces of advice about how to find out who you are and what you want and how

Roger Schank

"Susanne Goldstein's brilliant manifesto is a MUST READ for anyone who has either painted their career into a corner, or is just starting out. In this book are all the tools you’ll need to get unstuck and create a career of your own design."

Stephen Shapiro

“Forget career development – how about career inspiration? If you are going to buy only one book on how to get the most out of your work life, this is the one you want to get and actually read.”

David Norris