The Hidden Gem Within
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The Hidden Gem Within

Discovering Your Strengths & Talents for a Fulfilling Career

Jessica D. Winder
Jessica Winder, 2023
First Edition: 2023
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Jessica D. Winder, senior vice president at CoLab Software and CEO and founder of Hidden Gem Career Coaching, urges you to keep a journal to help you to build your career, foster personal growth, stay in touch with your ideas and emotions, and enhance your skills through reflection and writing. Her helpful tips on business-related subjects fill about one-third of this handy book. The rest is made up of blank notebook pages headlined with prompts to inspire your journal entries, which will further inspire you as you write them. Winder’s advice includes some coarse language, but your workbook’s content will come from you. 

Summary

Journaling reveals your hidden strengths.

The first duty you owe yourself is to learn who you are, what you are all about, and what your strengths and talents may be. Arming yourself with this essential information – your “hidden gem within” – puts you in the best possible position to develop a rewarding career that meets your needs. Journaling is a fun, engaging, and productive route to significant and meaningful self-discovery.

Plan time and space to add to your journal every day. Writing your entries helps you focus on your goals and develop meaningful action plans. Capture your thoughts and experiences as comprehensively as you can while deciding if your journal’s contents are for you alone or if you want to share your thoughts, feelings, ideas, inspirations, and frustrations with others, such as your boss, team members, friends, or family.

Journaling is having a conversation with yourself. It positions you to organize and process your thinking. Because journaling helps you get in touch with your emotions and deeper thoughts, it can be therapeutic. Journaling lets you express your true emotions, which may enable you to communicate them to others. Journaling...

About the Author

Jessica D. Winder, a top LinkedIn creator, is Senior Vice President at CoLab Software and CEO and Founder of Hidden Gem Career Coaching.

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