Harness Your Butterflies: The Young Professional's Metamorphosis to an Exciting Career

by Benjamin Preston

Overview

You've been told to follow your dreams, and hustle hard—that's how you build a successful career. But when you're starting out as a professional after college, that advice can feel empty and confusing. No one hands you the real steps to do it. Harness Your Butterflies is your action plan to demystify your professional future and help you create a career full of passion and purpose.

Walk through the decisions that sculpt your future work, starting with discovering what excites you and easily navigate the most vulnerable time in your career: The beginning. Learn job-building strategies to guide you through the following decades of your career.

Read on to learn:

• Why you have a half-read shelf of books or an unused gym membership and what it says about your future.
• Strategies to identify your weaknesses and focus them into practical success factors.
• What makes a top thought leader like Oprah Winfrey and Warren Buffett successful.
• The Diamond Effect: how to embrace adversity and come out with a stronger mindset
• How to overcome a quarter-life crisis through the 5-4-3-2-1 Method and create a new timeline.
• The power questions you need to answer to uncover your unique motivations, and how to hack your motivation to achieve your goals.

In today's rapidly changing business world, there are very few set job paths incapable of growth. Discover the foundational development tools and skills that professionals have taken years to learn on their own in one easy-to-follow handbook. Set yourself up for happiness with this empowering guide to more satisfaction and success in your career.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163949458
Publisher:	Pressdock Publishing
Publication date:	06/02/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Benjamin Preston is a marketer and business strategist with extensive experience in businesses of many different sizes and industries. He has an MBA from the University of North Carolina, and he's done it all: Launched several businesses, joined the leadership team at a startup, took a job at a billion-dollar communications company, and also worked at a Native American economic development firm. Benjamin now consults with small businesses to develop their strategies and scale their operations across various industries. He's received an entrepreneurship award from PM360 Magazine and served as a mentor for the PRSSA chapter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Benjamin now lives in Arlington, Virginia. Learn more at BenjaminPreston.com.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Harnessing Your Butterflies

CHAPTER 2: Transforming Anxious Energy into Personal Power

CHAPTER 3: When to Give Up (And When to Give Your All)

CHAPTER 4: Six Months of Intentional Action Will Put You Five Years Ahead

CHAPTER 5: Puzzle-Piece Strengths

CHAPTER 6: What’s Your Hot Button?

CHAPTER 7: Canada: The 51st State

CHAPTER 8: No Cell Phones at the Dinner Table

CHAPTER 9: The Diamond Effect

CHAPTER 10: Be Like Mike

CHAPTER 11: Speaking Doesn’t Help You Understand

CHAPTER 12: The Single Secret to Team Success

CHAPTER 13: The Lost Art of Conciseness

CHAPTER 14: The Cowardly Lion

CHAPTER 15: The More Lives You Live, The More Empathy You Gain

CHAPTER 16: The Real “You”

CHAPTER 17: Quarter-Life Crisis

CHAPTER 18: Impact Starts with You

Epilogue