Rock Your Job Interview
Eight short videos: how to rock your job interviews, five questions to master, a bonus, and the interview in person. Then make the discussion guide your own: a few slides to bring to the interview, on the trends in their industry, what makes the organization strong, three ideas you could bring, and your own goals.
Rock Your Job Interviews
Why Are You Excited About This Job?
Are You a Giver?
What Will You Focus On in This Role?
How Do You Respond to Difficulties?
How Do You Want to Help Us Grow?
Bonus
Rock Your Job Interview in Person
Interview discussion guideThe slide template from the class, 7 pages. Add your picture, their logo and your ideas. Copy it in Google Slides.
Download PDFInformational Interviews
The class and its slides: how to ask someone for an informational interview in three short lines (them, you, time), what to do once you’re talking, and how to say thank you and follow up.
Informational interviewsThe class slides, 6 pages.
Download PDFChoose Your Theme for the Year
One word for the year instead of a list of resolutions. My own themes, one for every year since 2007, are on Themes.
Purpose worksheetThe big ideas of goal-free living and yearly themes, 4 pages.
Download PDFGoal-Free Living
The workshop on Goal-Free Living, Stephen Shapiro’s book that inspired my yearly themes. Read my review, or watch my interview with Stephen.
Purpose worksheetThe same worksheet as the theme class: the book’s big ideas, 4 pages.
Download PDFThe Happiness Equation
The Happiness Workshop focuses on the book The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha, creator of 1000 Awesome Things. This is one of my favorite books and I couldn’t be more excited to share the highlights with you in this workshop.
Happiness worksheetThe book’s big ideas, 3 pages.
Download PDFSimplicity
A worksheet of the big ideas in Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, from the simplicity workshop.
Simplicity worksheet4 pages.
Download PDFShow Your Work
Know Your Priority
How Optimists Handle Overwhelm
Be a Go Giver
A fireside chat on The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann.
Making Your Ideal Schedule
Plan the week you’d love to have, then let people book time inside it. Mine is below as a template, with the class’s Zen Habits article on scheduling and Calendly, the booking tool in the video.
Ideal schedule templateMy ideal week, hour by hour, with the tips that keep it working. 1 page. Copy it in Google Docs.
Download PDFHow to Stay Grounded
Letting Go of Perfection
Focus on Good Enough
First Help One Person
Just Your First Book
Pivot
The welcome to the first class of Pivot. That class went on to the values exercise, whose video is week 1 of Crafting Your Purpose.
More of my videos are on my YouTube. The four-week course Crafting Your Purpose is free too, and so is the values exercise. Meet the optimists who joined.
Follow along
One essay a week, every Saturday morning.