Some people seem to \u201cjust know\u201d what work is right for them.\u00a0 The road appears to simply unroll before them: acceptance at the school of their dreams, ideal apprenticeships and internships, their pick of job offers, and success all the way through to retirement and beyond.<\/p>\n
But for most of us it is not like that.\u00a0 And it has not been that way for Leni, either.<\/p>\n
Leni’s plans and paths<\/h4>\n
Years ago, Leni thought she had her life planned out.\u00a0 She had married and was pursing a career that seemed natural, a career in which her background and education had prepared her.\u00a0 And yet . . .<\/p>\n
As you\u2019ll see in Finding Right Work<\/strong>,<\/em> that first path isn\u2019t always the right path for the long term.\u00a0 Like Leni and the people she interviews in her work and for the book, even the most wildly successful people run into road blocks and take detours (some intentional, some not).\u00a0 And the world changes.<\/p>\n As a job placement and search professional, Leni was hit hard by changes in economic cycles and workplace changes due to technology. Years ago, when large corporations began massive layoffs, businesses cut back, and media had nothing but doom and gloom predictions, Leni took another route.\u00a0 She knew many people were transforming the crisis of losing their old jobs into vibrant new ways of working. She studied their successes and together with Sharon Gadberry, a friend in the outplacement business, developed a way to showcase the more optimistic side, the silver lining of the changing workplace and economic shifts. With a generous sponsorship from Intel Corporation, they co-founded and co-produced \u00a0\u201cHome Sweet Office,\u201d TV shows featuring people who had successfully created new ways and places of working. Leni and Sharon found an abundance of people to interview, people who had made dramatic and innovative shifts by leveraging technology and their own creativity to build lives they loved.<\/p>\n Is she blessed?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 Did she take an active role in making it happen?\u00a0 Absolutely.<\/p>\n As Leni says about work, housing, and life itself, \u00a0“What you can create is much more wonderful than what you left behind.”\u00a0 Certainly that\u2019s been the case for her, from childhood on up.<\/p>\n At age four, Leni lost her mother to polio. Leni\u2019s four grandparents stepped in to care for the children while Leni\u2019s father finished medical school. The tragedy of her mother\u2019s death ultimately became a gift of wisdom and sparked her motivation to make the most of each day. The family stayed close, an extended family, full of laughter and compassion.<\/p>\n One Thanksgiving, Leni\u2019s brother Tom was contemplating what he\u2019d do once he retired from his accounting job.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t many questions\u2014in fact, it was Leni\u2019s famous \u201cmagic wand\u201d question\u2014that brought his answer to the surface.\u00a0 He wanted to be a clown!\u00a0 Soon after retiring, Tom moved his family from New Jersey to a town in Florida, a town that by great coincidence is a mere two miles from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College!<\/p>\n Tom has always been very, very funny.\u00a0 Now he has the time and opportunity to fully utilize one of his strongest talents. Like Leni and so many of her clients and the people she interviewed, he\u2019ll be able to say, \u201cI love what I do.\u00a0 Can you believe I get paid for it?\u201d<\/p>\n Leni hopes to make that sentiment real for more and more people.\u00a0 In her search and job placement practice she guides people through the handful of steps she has uncovered and coached people through. Steps that lead through the process of determining and then finding or creating right work.<\/p>\n Leni has been in her right work for decades and loving it.\u00a0 Over time, her inner voice guided her to write about right work and kept reminding her. And, in a way, the universe kept reminding her too.\u00a0 Friends and clients often asked her to put her ideas about right work on paper or a blog, so that they could have a portable coach and guidebook on this journey. Ultimately, it was the thought of how many more people she could help through a book and a website that did it.\u00a0 For part of her purpose in life is to pass it on, to inspire people to discover and create their own right work\u2014as she now does in Finding Right Work: Five Steps to a Life You Love.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Leni knows that everything changes, flows to something different.\u00a0 Yet many people fear change so much that they\u2019d rather stay in wrong work than believe it\u2019s possible to find right work. Instead, Leni encourages us to take action. Why not steer your life in a positive direction by embracing change and participating with the full power of your strengths and gifts?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Visit EASearch.com<\/a> for more information on\u00a0Leni and EASearch’s Executive Assistant search and\u00a0consulting services<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leni Miller is living a life she loves, a life in which she lives every day with enthusiasm and renewed energy. She is meeting her life priorities, using her strongest talents, and upholding her values\u2014every day.\u00a0 She lives among a … Continue reading Job placement and search professional<\/h4>\n
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That\u2019s just what Leni has done, multiple times.\u00a0 When faced with a particularly challenging personal and professional roadblock years ago, she decided to test some theories and practices she had been studying\u2014and found that they worked beyond her wildest dreams. Thanks to that test, she now lives and runs her business from a spectacular floating home in California\u2019s Richardson Bay, with gorgeous views in all directions.<\/p>\nWhat Leni has\u00a0created<\/h4>\n
Leni’s impact<\/h4>\n
Leni’s Right Work<\/h4>\n
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