Face to
Face
With Fred Coon
April 1, 2003 - Don’t fall prey to the lazyweb bug
and just use the auto-responder services of some Internet job
sites to drive your career choices. Don’t relapse and go
back to being a bobber in the lake, carried by whatever
current drifts by. Target and target and re-target until you
have selected companies showing the most promise. Go after
them, and pursue them, until you land interviews with the
decision makers at each.
Some years ago, I had the painful, but
extremely beneficial experience of attending Dr. James Farr’s
institute in North Carolina. Why painful? Because Jim forced
me to look at perception and reality and understand the
filters I was using to approach the world. These filters were
being used to interpret the behavior of others towards me.
Then, I reacted according to my emotional survival
programming. Whew, heavy stuff!
Because I was wrongly filtering, and
therefore misinterpreting most behaviors, I was reacting
according to my "understandings" and approaching
life with a cynical and negative manner. As I was going
through the sessions, I was angry, frustrated and hated facing
the reality of my fears. However, it was the most powerful and
beneficial experience of my entire working career. Since that
time, I have adopted a variation of FDR’s famous saying I
once heard at a meeting somewhere. Here it is: Fear
really means – False Evidence
Appearing Real.
About the Author: Fred Coon
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