PERREAULT Magazine NOV | DEC 2016 | Page 50

Once you’ve done your Needs Inventory exercise, it should have left you with a reflection of not only what you need, but what resources you have within your reach to potentially fulfill that need. Now, you need to take a step back, analyze, and ask yourself these questions.

1.How comfortable are you with understanding what you/your company needs to be successful?

2.Do you currently have a process in place that helps you how to get what you need?

3.Do you have people in your network, mentor group, company, or friends and family that can help you?

Who seem to effortlessly manifest opportunities, that you can reach out to for advice?

IV Tip: Not everything is as good as it appears. You owe it to yourself to explore all possibilities, down to having authentic conversations with anyone you get into business with, so that you truly understand what the real opportunity is - down to the nitty gritty.

Start with Resource Mapping to Create Opportunities

Your first step is to get laser focused, and bite off what you can chew. As always, there are a million options out there, but you want to select the most important/career and/or company goal you have and start here.

Part 2: Creating the Opportunity