Thanks to Mohamed Tohami of Transformational Motivation for a wonderful interview.
10 Expert Tips to Reinvent Yourself (From America’s Reinvention Expert)
This is another episode of the Passion vs. Paycheck series, where I invite passionate living experts and role models to share with you how to set your heart and soul free from the prison of the paycheck and start following your passion and have a life you can be proud of.
In this episode, my guest is Steve Olsher, America’s Reinvention Expert.
There are 3 interesting things you need to know about Steve:
1. He is the co-star of the ground-breaking film, The Keeper of The Keys with Jack Canfield, John Gray and Marci Shimoff.
2. He is the author of Journey To You: A Step by Step Guide to Becoming Who You Were Born to Be. This book was honored by USA Book News as the “Best Self-Help Book of the Year.”
3. He is an in-demand media guest who has appeared on more than 200 radio shows.
Here are 10 tips from Steve to help you reinvent yourself:
1. Identify how you want to be remembered.
2. Add value first and everything will begin to shift.
3. Give yourself time and permission to find the ONE thing that you’re compelled to do.
4. Reconnect with your past and who you inherently are.
5. Discover your gift and be specific about who you want to share your gift with.
6. Research, find and model other people who do what you’re compelled to do.
7. Volunteer and add value to people in your industry.
8. Find your unique idea and positioning and discuss it with experts in your field.
9. Start monetizing your passion little by little.
10. Don’t invest in college! (Unless you know EXACTLY what you want to do as a career – e.g. Doctor or Engineer).
For a free copy of Steve’s award-winning book Journey To You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming Who You Were Born to Be, please visit www.JourneyToYou.com.
The Secret of Life
Harris Interactive recently polled 1,215 full and part-time workers and asked an interesting question: “If your job were a living, breathing person, would you marry it?” The results were quite telling:
Only 9% of respondents said “yes.”
34% agreed they liked their job enough to “date it seriously.”
43% stated they’d “date it casually.”
9% said the relationship “won’t last long.”
5% said they “want to break up immediately.”
This doesn’t exactly scream job satisfaction; and there’s little wonder why. The average annual salary of full-time employees in the United States is $30,000 and nearly 87% of college graduates don’t work in their field of study within five years. Couple this disconnect with ill-suited career choices and an average student loan debt of $20,000 and it becomes apparent something’s amiss.
Jim Rohn, the author and motivational speaker largely credited with launching the careers of Tony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, and others gurus said, “A formal education will make you a living. A self-education will make you a fortune.”
Far too many people end up as wage slaves, stuck in the vicious cycle of needing to work in jobs they loathe to pay off debt related to education they don’t use. If this applies to you, it may be time to seek viable alternatives and create a career that cultivates satisfaction, fulfillment, and contentment as opposed to having a job that perpetuates your living at the juncture of bankruptcy.
To achieve your ideal career, you must identify and pursue the sweet spot where something you love to do, are good at, and will be paid for all overlap. Like the legs of a tripod, each component is necessary to establish a solid foundation.
For example, if there’s something you love to do and are good at, but hardly anyone will pay you for it, basing a career on this activity or skill inevitably leads straight to the poor house.
Conversely, if there’s something you’re good at and others will pay for it, but you have no love for the activity or skill, you’ll always be operating with one foot out the door.
There is a tremendous difference between being good at something and achieving fulfillment doing it. You could spend 20 years filing stacks of paper in alphabetic, numeric, and subject order while blindfolded and become expert at it. However, this reflects an acquired ability, not something you’re necessarily compelled to do. When societal expectations or financial pressures lead you to continue serving others via performing a skill or service that fails to resonate, you’re living from an inauthentic frame of mind.
The secret to life is finding your personal sweet spot where the concentric circles in the diagram overlap. I call this your WHAT — that is, the ONE thing you were born to do. 
Once you can answer the key question, “What Is My WHAT?,” everything will take on new meaning. You’ll greet each morning with vigor, there won’t be enough hours in the day to accomplish all that you want to, and things that used to worry you no longer will.
To make a real difference in our world, tap the inherent blueprint that exists within and pursue your calling with reckless abandon. Doing so will empower you to not only have an inordinate impact on those who share this lifetime with you, but also on those of lifetimes to come.
Remember, you are exactly where you’re supposed to be. The world is waiting for you!
Steve Olsher is America’s Reinvention Expert. A successful entrepreneur who has applied his business acumen and communication skills to a wide range of endeavors, he is the co-star of the ground-breaking film, The Keeper of the Keys with Jack Canfield, John Gray, and Marci Shimoff; Founder of the Reinvention Workshop; Host of Reinvention Radio, Author of USA Book News’ Self-Help Book of The Year, Journey To You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming Who You Were Born to Be; and an in-demand media guest who has appeared on ABC TV, FOX TV, and more than 200 radio shows including nationally syndicated programs hosted by Lou Dobbs, Jim Bohannon, and Mancow Muller.
For a free copy of Steve Olsher’s award-winning book, Journey To You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming Who You Were Born to Be, which will teach you how to discover your WHAT, please visit www.JourneyToYou.com.
