Face Your Fears of Financial Insecurity & Make A Career Transition
I’m looking forward to tonight’s teleclass on facing one’s financial fears — and still make a career transition. Financial Advisor Linette Dobbins will be one of our panelists. Here are just a few of the many tips she will be discussing on tonight’s teleclass:
1. Create a financial plan. Those with a financial plan seem to experience less fear when life-changing events occur. A financial planner can help you prepare for the unexpected and discover opportunities, resources and guide decision-making.
2. Do a financial stress test to see what you can handle – What if I am laid off? What if I change careers for my dream job? Can I retire? How long will my money last, etc.?
3. Identify your greatest fears and have a disaster plan.
4. Crisis brings opportunities – look for them and seize them.
5. Fear is an acronym for False Experience Appearing Real. Identify if the fear you are experiencing is real or false. Media sells more advertising with fear. Fear hooks you into watching the story. We refer to this as Media Mania and the Herd Syndrome. If your fear is coming from the media, turn it off. Refocus, do something that makes you feel good. If your fear is from a real event, ask yourself, what is the worst thing that can happen? Then take action. If you don’t know what to do, ask for help.
6. If you have serious financial problems, see a debt counselor.
7. Set realistic goals and work on them one step at a time. Just keep making small steps toward your goals and reward yourself for your achievements.
8. Look at the your accomplishments and the things that are going well and acknowledge them.
It’s not too late to join…and feel free to share with your friends and colleagues. Sign-up here to get the call-in number. The teleclass is free other than the cost of you dialing the direct line conference number:
http://vocationvacations.com/MessagePages/2009.06.23-teleclass
Cheers!
Brian
June 24, 2009 at 8:09 am
Brian, thanks for the great call last night. I wanted you to know about someone who shares your feelings on S.C.O.R.E. Barbara Winter, who wrote ‘Making a Living Without a Job’ refers to them as ‘SCORN’ because they don’t seem to give any credibility to those of us who work in home-based businesses.
Vocation Vacations provides a wonderful service to those of us who want to experience our dream job before making the big leap. Thank you for this opportunity!