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your own job search or other career movement through developing and maintaining professional relationships. Therefore, your “security” will no longer be dependent on any particular employer, recruiter, or even field, but will be placed firmly into your own hands.
    I will first share with you the dirty truths about job-seeking from both overt and stealth perspectives, so that you are thoroughly convinced of the near senselessness of responding to ads. I will then show you how to effectively tap into the hidden job market through building connections with others—people you already know, as well as those you don’t.
    I’ll have to alter your thinking first, so that you embody the necessary mindset to authentically create stealth relationships. But after a thorough brainwashing of your desperation and neediness, I’ll show you specifically how to form these bonds, how to go from being a complete unknown to folks in positions of knowledge, power, and influence, all the way to becoming a connected and top-of-mind acquaintance—even colleague!
    “The most effective career-enhancement tool since humans arrived on the planet: the good opinion and favor of others.”
    Why to connect, whom to connect to, how to contact, where to meet, how to conduct the conversations, and the entire mechanics of maintaining the relationship after initial contact: I’ll cover all of this and more to ensure that you can begin utilizing the most effective career enhancement tool since humans arrived on the planet: the good opinion and favor of others.
    I am committed that, once and for all, you see that you can be in charge at all times of your own career movement. In empowering you to do so, my own life purpose of ensuring that people experience aliveness and freedom to create inspired new futures is satisfied. We’ve got this one life, and we spend one-third to half of our waking hours working. Let’s make it count—for us, and for our world.
    T HE L ITTLE B IT E XTRA … T HAT M AKES A W ORLD OF D IFFERENCE
    Are you willing to believe that this little book can open up something completely new as possible in your career life?Are you willing to have it not just be another tome of good ideas, most of which exit your mind as soon as you put it away?
    I believe that the intention you include with the time you take to read and engage in this process will make all the difference in the world. For example, how many times do you read a book that has sections of questions for you to answer…but you don’t answer them? How many helpful guides have given you an exercise to practice so that you can gain a new understanding of something…but you skip over it? The reason that coaching and consulting are such big businesses today is that, left to our own devices, we often don’t put in that little bit extra that we would if we were face-to-face, in front of our coach, doing the tasks we’re given!
    Look, you can’t expect to learn something without practicing, and you can’t put sentences together until you’ve learned and rehearsed your ABCs. Therefore, I ask you (for your sake, not mine) to offer a really high intention as you move forward into this book so that you will do what it takes to have it make a difference for you. Having something at stake will make you play a whole different way.
    In business and in life, we know that high return often requires high risk. Otherwise, anyone could have anything. Though I do believe anyone can have anything, it requires commitment and courage to really risk oneself to get it. What are you willing to put on the line to make happen in your life and career out of investing your time into this book and mastering this process? Is it a new job closer to home, doing what you really love, with folks you enjoy? Is it an entire career change, into a new field that you’ve only dreamed about? Is it your own entrepreneurial venture, in an area thatyou’ve pondered for so many years? What is it for you? Be really