Mastering Your Next Level November Newsletter

	Dr. Dorene Lehavi, Ph.D.
Because It's Your Life, Not Just a Living™



November 2006	Brought to you by: Next Level Business and Professional Coaching

Table of Contents

Holiday Greeting
Article One: "Do you Feel Stuck On A Career Plateau?"
Article Two: "Eartha Kitt, My Mother and You"
Gift Ideas for Friends and Family: "Joy Breaks" and "Stop Doing
What You Hate Start Doing What You Love" Workbook

Holiday Greeting

Happy Thanksgiving!

I thank all of you for being my readers. I wish you a joyous holiday season and the best year of life ever.

My love and good wishes,
Dorene

Article One

Do You Feel Stuck On A Career Plateau?
by Dorene Lehavi, PhD

“Judging yourself for what you haven't yet accomplished, is kind of like taking rocket fuel from the rocket so that it might fly higher.” www.tut.com

Do you think you have gone as far as you can in your present position? Are you bored, unchallenged or burned out on your present job? Do you feel like you are at a dead end? Here’s the good news. You are on a plateau. Life I supposed to be full of plateaus. They are an important part of your life journey.

A few years ago I went on a hiking trip with a group in Tuscany. Everyday we climbed mountains. When we arrived at a plateau we had a picnic.

You can make a picnic on your plateau. The picnic is an opportunity for rest, relaxation, reflection. Let it nurture, nourish, and refresh your body and soul. Use it to regroup and reevaluate. Make ongoing lists for all the blessings in your life. Focus ONLY on the positives. Enjoy it. It’s a giant Joy Break. (See my ebook Joy Breaks). Don’t rush it. Use the time you spend on the plateau to figure out how and where to take your next step, To do that you must deepen your self knowledge. Self knowledge is always the key to creating the life you want. If you have my work book Stop Doing What You Hate Start Doing What You Love, take it out and spend quality focused time with it. It is about you. If you think you have done the exercises, do them again. As I tell you in the book, you will get different and deeper answers and revelations about yourself each time you do it.

Reflect on your strengths, accomplishments, the things you do better than other people do. What do you enjoy doing? What new thing would you love to learn? How do you want your ideal day to look.? Take classes in fun things that are new to you. Peruse catalogs and job listings for ideas. Arrange to go on informational interviews.

Time you spend being angry, upset and pressured is time wasted. It’s even worse than that because it reinforces a negative self image and moves you backward.

If you create the picnic I described you will discover that you are much more than you think you are. You will feel renewed and ready to move on. Enjoy your journey!

Joy Breaks

JOY BREAKS downloadable ebook

Do you feel undervalued and overworked? Have you lost control of your daily schedule?

Do you always feel behind and can’t catch up? Have you tried Time Management programs and you aren’t making progress?

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It’s so simple. You can work them into your daily schedule and they can truly change your outlook in your career and reduce your stress at work.

Take advantage of this simple technique and purchase the JOY BREAKS ebook.

Find out how many corporate professionals found a way to turn their career around by finding JOY in their day with JOY BREAKS. It only takes one moment of JOY to get started.

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Article Two

Eartha Kitt, My Mother and You
by Dorene Lehavi, PhD

Eartha Kitt is 78 and my Mom is 91. They both still have undiscovered songs in them. I recently heard EK say on TV that every day she is discovering notes she didn't know she had, and she is still performing them. My Mom is discovering a bunch of challenging and fun things she never did before. Mom is in a wheelchair, lives in a home for the aging, and has discovered a love of crafts she never knew was in her. It gives her great pleasure to have a ceramic or beaded piece she crafted to give as gifts along with the collage greeting cards she makes. When new ideas and media are introduced she is willing to try everything.

It always amazes me when much younger people come to me as clients looking to broaden their lives or change them in some way in order to find more fulfillment and happiness. Yet they say to me, "This is all I know. I can't do anything else." Please, folks, take another look. I know you'll find many undiscovered talents and skills like Eartha's notes and Mom's creations.

To help you get started on this journey of self-discovery use the first exercise in my book called Proud Moment Timeline.

On a piece of paper, list 5-year increments in age in the left margin, leaving a few lines for each period of time. Start with 5 - 10 years old (1 -5 if you were a prodigy), then 10-15 etc., until you reach your present age.
In the lines next to the appropriate age, list the biggest thing you accomplished that made you feel proud. Remember this, your pride and your accomplishment is to be age-appropriate. Don't diminish things that you now consider small. You are recording what happened then.

If you have trouble recalling a particular period of your life, talk to people who were there at the time. You might also dig out photographs that will jog your memory. As a result of this exercise, people recall things they loved or had long forgotten. Their journey caused them to take a different road, leaving behind a true interest, talent or skill. Now with this rediscovery they find a way to reincorporate it into their lives.

Mom at 91 and Eartha at 78 still have new songs to sing. How many do you have?

I always like to remind people…you are MUCH more than you think you are.

To Your Success,

Dr. Dorene Lehavi, Ph.D., Master Coach