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"This book gives you ideas, insights and practical ideas you can use immediately to advance in every area of your life."   Brian Tracy, Author of "Time Power"

"Todd Royer's Workination encourages the career-minded to regularly evaluate themselves, prioritize and focus on building strong organizational skills. Not only is this book a great reminder of how mindfulness and patience can lead to incredible success, it also contains an entire glossary of well-researched, useful links. Good Job Todd!"   Dawna Stone, author of WINNING NICE: How To Succeed In Business and Life Without Waging War

Workination: Are You Fascinated With Your Career? Available for $19.95 through Amazon

"Workination" is a very timely book for me personally; not because I am embarking on my first or second professional career, but because I am finishing one of almost 40 years. I now have to decide what to do next in the working years remaining. This book already has been an invaluable guide for me in describing how I need a roadmap to plot my next professional moves-my workination-regardless of my stage in life. So, along with imagination, my workination will send me down the road I should be on. Wherever you are in your career, I think you will find this book to be an invaluable aid."   Arthur VanGundy, Author of "Getting to Innovation"

"Finally a book from a professional whose job is 'people' and 'careers', which provides philosophy made easy and strategically applied. A MUST read for personal strategic differentiation and value creation. This is a usable, practical book for executives and career individuals."   Devesh Mathur, Director of global technology, Honeywell Corporation

A Workination Book Excerpt

The dictionary defines the word "career" as, "a person's progress or general course of action through life, as in some profession or undertaking." A job on the other hand, is "a piece of work, a specific task done as part of the routine of one's occupation."

It's easy to become so involved with your job, that you lose sight of your career in the hub-bub of your day-to-day routine. Yet, to develop your career, and accomplish goals you set in your work life, you must regularly take time to consider career development. The question is: Will your current work lead you to the work you most desire?

Workination: Are You Fascinated With Your Career? Available for $19.95 through Amazon.

Progressing in a career, in any field, is about developing the consciousness and habits of career building. In other words, stepping away from those daily tasks to reflect on your fascination with the future. Be excited about what you can do with your future. Don't wait until you are frustrated with your current job to think about the next opportunity. To develop a career takes initiative and planning; and it all starts by looking at yourself. After all, pursuing goals requires confidence, and the more you know about yourself the more you know how to generate confidence.

This book offers you a chance to think about a wide variety of issues surrounding career development. It is not an invitation to quit the work you have in front of you, but instead a call to embrace that work and grow with that work. More than likely, a day will come when you move on to other work; and your career will take a different turn. By growing now in your current position you will have more skills to take with you. The first step in long-term planning is starting at home. Who are you? What are your strengths and what are your weaknesses? What skills do you need to develop to get to the next level and the level beyond that? What self-doubts do you harbor and what must you do to turn those doubts into assets?

Building a career includes being open to new experiences, learning new skills, and developing ways of looking at the world. It also involves creating a vision of who you want to become and a plan for how you will get there. Once you succeed at putting that plan into play, you will eventually arrive at your ideal career, or what I call, "workination." The articles in this book range from examination of very basic skills you sometimes need to reconsider, to discussion of strategies and tactics for developing your career path.
Career development is a constantly changing process: a journey. The best way to successfully reach the end of your journey is by having a roadmap that leads you from your starting point towards your final goal. That roadmap is simply called: Plan A, and you'll need confidence; in fact, you'll need to learn how to generate your own confidence to make it work.

Don't wait for others to take care of you. The days when a parent-like corporation provided step-by-step promotions based on diligence and hard work are long gone. You are responsible for your own career decisions. And who better to make those decisions than you - the person most affected by them? To embrace this responsibility, you'll need to lift your eyes above the tree line on a regular basis to see a bigger picture, not just the day-to-day responsibilities. It's a matter of informing yourself about that larger career landscape that you live within. Look for opportunities that challenge you. Make it a habit to take time on a weekly basis to work, not on your job, but on your career. And regularly ask yourself: Am I creating my ideal career?

Workination: Are You Fascinated With Your Career? Available for $19.95 through Amazon