My Reality Check Bounced!: The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams

My Reality Check Bounced!

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Dorsey's follow-up to Graduate to Your Perfect Job is a how-to guide for struggling young adults seeking to kick off a career or achieve a long-term goal. Through real-world examples and prescient My Reality Check Bounced! It's time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms. My reality check bounced!: My Reality Check Bounced!: We are all born unable to take care of ourselves. Living with meaning and purpose is a learned behavior. Tiffany, twenty-four, arrived distracted and anxious at the tiny coffee shop where we had agreed to meet. Despite her stylish business suit and expensive haircut and makeup, Tiffany had the look.

I have seen it so often among twentysomethings in her situation. She was frustrated and disillusioned, wondering why her life just didn''t feel right. Tiffany thought she''d done everything she was supposed to. She made dean''s list at her college and, after graduating, landed a great job.

Now she was supposed to be spreading her wings, dating her true love, enjoying her career, and going on exciting adventures. Instead, the long hours and short tempers made her feel constantly on edge and insecure.

My Reality Check Bounced!: The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing in on Your Real-World Dreams

She was asking herself the question about her place in life that haunts so many talented people in our generation: That''s why she called me. She heard from a mutual friend that I helped people like her find their way again. Tiffany ordered a double latte, then she cautiously confessed: She wasn''t getting enough sleep. She didn''t have time for her friends, family, or love life.

She''d stopped working out. She was smoking too much. She wanted more freedom and sense of purpose.

Despite working in a busy office six and sometimes seven days a week, she felt alone and lost. At twenty-four years old, Tiffany felt she was running hard but going nowhere.

The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams

It hasn''t and I''m not. I''m stressed out all the time.

My Reality Check Bounced

I don''t want to go to work; some days I don''t even want to get out of bed. And I don''t know what to do about it. I feel so confused. Nothing in college prepared me for this. Now I keep asking myself, Is this what I worked so hard for?

Are you no longer a kid, but still unsure where you''re headed or what your life''s all about? Do you constantly find yourself settling for the safe path, rather than chasing what you most want? To help overcome this barrier, Dorsey provides eleven challenging assignments to help even the most disillusioned career seeker get off the sidelines and back in the career game.

Career Counselors can pick relevant assignments and suggest them to clients who have given up on their dreams. Unleash Opportunity is a powerful chapter in which Dorsey tears down the notion of opportunity knocking at your door and asserts that opportunity must be found. Dorsey goes a step further and tackles a big hurdle many young professionals struggle with — being open to multiple options and not limiting their own choices.

Check Your Excuses at the Door challenges the reader to focus on solutions and possibilities. Dorsey provides a hearty list of excuses that twenty-somethings often bring up in sessions. He then counters each excuse, showing that there is always a solution waiting to be found. Though young professionals will never admit it, Dorsey brings the reader face-to-face with their number one crippling fear — fear itself. He challenges twenty-somethings to face their fears if they ever want to find fulfillment.

He also discusses the roles that failures can play in future successes. My Reality Check Bounced reads like a solid self-help book. The personal testimony Dorsey shares of his own rise from obscurity to success is enough to convince any twenty-something that with a little planning and self-development, you really can live your passions. Personal Growth Business Philosophy Category: Personal Growth Business Philosophy Audiobooks.

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