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LibraryThing (https://www.librarything.com). is a community of 2,100,000 book lovers. A fun feature on the LibraryThing website is the book summaries submitted by members in the form of haiku poems,  These can be found at https://www.librarything.com/more/haiku.

Here are some haiku summaries for Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work:

 

Seeking fulfillment?

Assessment tools point the way.

A new career awaits!

 

Career coach offers

twenty-first century guide

to fulfilling work!

The following excerpt from Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work by Halimah Bellows MA, MS is now featured on Bublish at: https://bublish.com/bubble/stream/16284?share=email.

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Choosing Well

Moving forward boldly with your decision-making process is essential to your success in your career and in all aspects of your life. Career coach Linda Markley notes, “Many people put off making choices either from a fear of making the wrong choice or simply not getting around to it. Paradoxically, not making choices is harder work in the long run.  If we make the big choices about what we want in our lives, we have a direction, a blueprint against which we usually make small choices (like what to pay attention to, what to do next) more obvious.

Markley offers the following quiz to help evaluate just how effectively you are choosing.

  1. Is there joy, lightness and ease in your life? Always? Often? Sometimes? Rarely? Never?
  2. How often are you wholeheartedly involved in what you’re doing?
  3. How often do you feel good about what you are doing ad who you are with at the time?
  4. How often do you feel tress or strain?
  5. How often are you bored?
  6. How often do you regret having committed yourself, yet continue anyway?
  7. How often do you miss something important to you (like fun, time with your loved ones, exercise, study, growing your business)?
  8. How often do you consciously choose?
  9. If you could do anything with or without anyone , how often would that coincide with what you are doing?

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MARCH 23, 2018 – Seattle-based author and career counselor/coach Halimah Bellows, MA, MS, CCC, CPC will be featured on “Reset Your Life” with host Krista Smolda, on Tuesday, March  27 at 11am PST at www.rvntv.tv/rvnlive. RVN TV is a cutting edge platform for people of any industry to share their vision through their live stream and internet radio platform.

Halimah will be speaking about her new book, “Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work.” Designed as self-paced career development workshop in book format, “Champion Your Career” addresses the needs of a new generation of career seekers in a rapidly changing economy and job marketplace. The book provides a wide range of self-assessment tools to enable individuals to explore their personal passions, values, strengths and skills along with sound strategies and resources for decision making, goal setting and networking to begin a fulfilling new career.

“Champion Your Career“ is a winner of the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs (NABE) Summer 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the category of Self-Help Books. It has also been named a finalist in the category of Business-Careers in the Thirteenth Annual Best Book Awards sponsored by i310 Media Group, Inc., a finalist in the category of Business-Careers in the Eighth Annual International Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest, a Finalist in the category of Careers in the 2017 competition sponsored by Book Excellence Awards of Brampton, Ontario, and an Official Selection in the Inspiration/Motivational Self Help category of the 2017 New Apple Book Awards for Excellence in Independent Publishing. It has received numerous 5-star reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and Barnes & Noble websites.

“Champion Your Career” is now available in print and as an ebook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million and Powell’s online bookstores.  It is available directly from the author’s website, www.championyourcareer.com. Additionally, it is also now being carried in bookstores around the country as well as in some local college bookstores and college and public libraries in the Pacific Northwest.

Halimah Bellows is a sought after and respected resource for career advice and coaching.  She is also the creator of CAREER QUEST CARDS © TM, a boxed set of 24 colorful cards with over 30 exercises based on the best of current career search information. A Career Quest App is also available.

Halimah Bellows is available for radio, television and media interviews as well as readings and discussions in bookstores and other venues.  For a review copy of Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work or an interview with the author, contact her at hbellows@championyourcareeer.com or 206.595.7927.

Reviewed on Thirsty4Health (http://thirsty4health.com/book-review-champion-your-career/ by Andreas Michaelides

Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work by Halimah Bellows is a very hands-on book. It is a book that you will need a notebook and a pen or a pencil to truly understand and appreciate the knowledge that is inside this fantastic book. I believe that this book is one of the best self-help books I read thus far. It provides meaningful information, tests, questions and food for thought for people who want to know what they should do with their life on a professional level.

This book will help you pinpoint if the work you are in now is right for you or you need to change it. If you decide to change work description, then this book will help you find your new niche. I liked this book also because it is an optimist book since it adamantly supports that changing careers is never too late. It covers pretty much all the various age groups, and its plethora of useful strategies, easy-to-use tools, and questionnaires, proved on the field and reliable advice, and a fantastic number of useful resources is breathtaking, to say the least.

The author did a fantastic job by presenting numerous questions that are clearly designed to get you from point A to point B and to find out where are you good and where are you weak and do something about it. I especially enjoyed and found really useful the chapter entitled: Nourish your network which was something I always had a problem pursuing. After reading this book’s perspective on the issue, I am going to start developing the notions and ideas that are covered in this book. Highly Recommend it.

 

Reviewed on Amazon by KM on March 11, 2018

https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R308ABANPPBNNG?ref_=glimp_1rv_cl

Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work by Halimah is a practical book that will help you find out the best career for you. It has a lot of questions and a lot of strategies that, if you follow them, will tell you where you are good at and where you need to improve more.

It is a very empowering book. It provides with all the necessary tools to find out what you will want to do in the future. Also supplies enough tips and advice and again lot of questions for people that want to change work and try and do something else.

I liked the chapter entitled “Retire with Fire” where it deals with the life a lot of people have to face after retirement and presents again a plethora of information that will enable you to make the right decisions for your professional future.

It is a very hands on the book, a pencil and notebook and a lot of self-discovery is a must to enjoy this excellent book thoroughly. Highly recommend it.

The following excerpt from Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work by Halimah Bellows MA, MS is now featured on Bublish at: https://bublish.com/bubble/stream/15664?share=email

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Author Insight

In fully uncovering and embracing our passions, we find a deeper purpose that gives a richer meaning to our lives beyond gratification of our egos. A calling is like an organism, a living entity with a purpose all its own. It drives us toward authenticity and aliveness. Saying ”yes” to a calling tends to place you on a path where half of you doesn’t think it makes a bit of sense, but the other half knows your life won’t make any sense unless you participate in certain activities that automatically draw out your passion for life.

Book Excerpt

You’ll also find that the bigger the calling, the more likely it is that it will fling opposing energies into your life. For example, one part of you will want to awaken, while another part of you wants you to stay in the comfortable, safe but unfulfilling lifestyle. So what is your calling? What feelings come to you as you imagine fully with all of your senses, living your life with passion and purpose? How do we know what our passions are? How do we uncover what brings us to a greater understanding of what our purpose is? And once we know our passion and purpose, how do we express them in a work environment so that our life is continually being fulfilled?  This chapter will lead you down a path of self-discovery through exercise and questions to reflect upon your own personal definition of your purpose and passion in your life work.