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For Our Clients & Their Families
COLLEGE VISITS AND VACATIONS
Summer is a time when families and their high school students check out colleges. If you find yourself combining vacation with college visits, your free alumni subscription to CareerCruising ), our online college and career planning resource, can help you plan your itinerary.
How does it work? Find out here...
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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Send us a quick email or call us at 630.469.6270. Let us know how you have used your Career Vision results to make college or career decisions.
Adults, students, and parents of students should each be receiving their own copy of this e-newsletter and any mailings that we send; please keep us informed of new addresses so we can keep in touch.
MORE CAREER VISION ALUMNI INFORMATION
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Events Calendar
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6/21 "How to Make Great Career Choices at Any Age" Career Resource Center, Lake Forest
OVER 200 PARENTS & STUDENTS attended "How to Help Your Teen Choose a Motivating College Major" at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, one of our partnership schools.
Does your high school have a Career Vision Partnership to educate parents on the importance of early college and career planning? Call us to find out more.
Call us if you would like to host a free Career Literacy program for your parent group.
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Career Vision
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Suite E-200
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
toll free: 800.469.8378
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June 20, 2007
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Backwards Planning: A Great Strategy for Those Who Find It Hard to Get Started
Research consistently shows that a well-conceived plan can improve your odds for achieving your goals. So why don't more people do it in their personal lives? There are three common pitfalls:
- We don't know what we don't know - our goals are too vague
- We get caught up in the day-to-day details and don't invest the reflective time to make a plan
- Without support, we lack confidence in our aspirations
Planning and timelines are essential in the workplace. Whether for students or adults, the question is "How can I improve my efforts for my personal goals and aspirations - particularly when they are education or career-related?" The answer is: Backwards Planning, beginning with the end in mind.
Here are the steps to backwards planning...
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Resources for People Who Are "Planning-Challenged"
Most of us struggle with juggling hectic lives, with varying degrees of success. The secret to increasing effectiveness is to be tenacious in setting aside regular time to plan and prioritize. Consistency is key.
Here are three resources that may help:
1. "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" by Stephen Covey. This classic best-selling book offers strategies to increase effectiveness in both personal and professional areas of life.
2. "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity" by David Allen, who encourages his readers to get things out of their head and onto paper, and to reformat items into action-oriented outcomes and concrete next steps.
One more great resource.....
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Thank you for your interest in Career Vision
Career Vision helps individuals identify college majors and careers that best fit their natural talents and lead to success and happiness more quickly. We are part of the Ball Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to helping individuals discover and develop their potential since 1975.
If you know of a parent who has a high school or college student unsure of their college or career direction, or someone who is looking to make a change to a more satisfying career, please forward this newsletter to them or have them call us. It would be our privilege to assist them. Gift certificates are available.
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