#Goals

Jan 10
1 min

This Ride Isn't For Everyone

I just finished reading the Essence Magazine interview with Lori Harvey. I see her face everywhere, and that body is serious #Goals. I was curious to see if she would address why she declined the engagement to reading the article to Michael B Jordan. Interestingly enough, she didn't address it. Well, not directly. What she did say rang loud and clear to me about goals, ambition, change and growth. She quoted something her mother told her "For those who know and love you, no

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Nichelle Rae

Nov 18, 2019
1 min

Let's Get This Party Started

It's mid November, the year is quickly coming to an end. You had goals, which you didn't meet for your career. You had some gains, but not the success you planned on. You made some changes, but your lifestyle is still not fully in line to support your journey. It's over. .... NOT! The holiday season is upon you. This is the time to catch up and kick-start your 2020. There are so many social events happening in the next few weeks to connect you and move you steps forward. The

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If This Doesn't Focus You....Nothing Will

Nichelle Rae

Oct 8, 2019
1 min

If This Doesn't Focus You....Nothing Will

Every blog, book newspaper, magazine and motivational speaker tells you to stay focused on the vision that you have for yourself. Your goals are doable if you just stay the course to reach them. It's not going to come easy and it won't come quickly but it will come. The test is, will you stay the course long enough to reach those goals you have. Hard work and ignoring all those voices inside your head and around you that say "this will never work", "what makes you think you c

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Nichelle Rae

Apr 16, 2019
1 min

It's Time to start Blooming!

It's Mid-April. For those who created 2019 Plans and Goals, if they haven't been started feel like it's too late. Well, it's not. It's not too late AND you don't have to wait until Monday to start fresh. If you want to end 2019 better than you ended 2018, today is as good a time as any to get started. Spring is about new beginnings. Spring is when seeds are planted, watered, fertilized and given plenty of TLC to ensure in the next 30 to 60 days blooms will appear. Your career

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Nichelle Rae

Feb 5, 2019
1 min

Do You Have a Map?

Why would anyone need a map when you have Siri; God Bless her. Well, as you probably have guessed I'm talking about a map for your success. No one gets where they are going without a map, not a plan but a map. A plan is a proposal for doing something. A map is a detailed diagram over an area showing the physical elements of that area. Now, if you are plotting out your success wouldn't you want as much detail as possible? I would. Your career map shouldn't just involve levels

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Nichelle Rae

Dec 10, 2018
2 min

Stay True & Good...to Everyone

One of the things my parents taught me, particularly my father, was to treat everyone the same. I've lived my career using the mantra. It's especially come in handy in the last 5 years, it's getting more difficult for me to remember names. However, some people seem to only use this theme when it comes to those in positions of power; they are so wrong. If you treat everyone in the office, from the Administrative Assistant to the mail room staff to the entry staff to the powers

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Nichelle Rae

Oct 22, 2018
2 min

Desire & Work ... Opportunities

After watching the Quincy Jones Documentary I've come to the conclusion that YOUR success cannot be planned, only desired and worked for. Sounds kind of odd, but hear me out. If you have a desire for success and stay true to what interests you - finance, marketing, project management, client management, innovation, solving problems - then strive to know all there is to know about that area of interest. Become so fascinated with that area of interest, that you become known a

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Nichelle Rae

Sep 28, 2018
2 min

Can You Be More Specific?

Everyone is different, which means how they think act and flow through life is also different. So at what point do people who want to "help" you succeed realize this, and begin to give you the advice that speaks specifically to what you are trying to do? Examples of how someone else did something is great. It is inspiring to know that someone else was able to navigate the political, economic and social environment working at a corporation to rise to the higher ranks of Succes

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Affirmation Won't Come from Who You Know

Nichelle Rae

Aug 15, 2018
2 min

Affirmation Won't Come from Who You Know

I've been blogging now for over 10 years. My Premise has been that not everyone has the desire to be an Entrepreneur. Success can be achieved working within a Corporate environment. By success, I don't mean middle management and the hopes of a 6-figure salary; I'm talking about 7-figure, stock options included success. At times I wondered if anyone thought the same way I do about being successful working for someone else. If everyone out there was so bent on being their "own

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Nichelle Rae

Jul 18, 2018
3 min

They Say Refresher. I Say Reminder

This week I must have received about 10 emails proclaiming what I need to climb the corporate ladder. Just nuts! Guess what? Here’s the secret … there isn’t a ladder. If you talk to most people who are successful in the corporate world and ask them "what was their path to get here". Most will say the 1st off it was more like a journey than a path. 2nd their ascent to the top was more like a zig-zag trail than a ladder. Like a mountain with walking trails carved into the s

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Nichelle Rae

Jun 26, 2018
2 min

I've Never Seen That Before

There is an ideal in most companies that there is an order to how a person can rise to a certain level of success. Some believe you have to start at the bottom, or someplace close to it, then rise from there. Not only do they have an idea of where you should start from but also where you should land at each interval of your career. What you should do at each level, how long you should be at each level and who you need to befriend to get to the next place. Kind of sounds OK, b

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Nichelle Rae

Mar 29, 2018
2 min

None of Your Business

Well, it's not really breaking news that all of our information is not only out there in the universe but also being sold tot he highest bidder. People are mad and wanting someone to answer for it, but we have all long said whatever you click on, sign up for or like is a piece of data in the puzzle that is you. As long as you know that, then be conscious of what you do on any and all networks. Especially, the one at the place you work. At work, its not just what you do on the

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Nichelle Rae

Jan 8, 2018
1 min

Who Are You?

If you watched the Golden Globes, one of the points which was repeated was Speak Your Truth. When looking at your career and the goals you have for it, you also have to speak your truth... to yourself. The 1st part of the plan, posted on January 5th, requires you to look over your last performance review and pull out the areas that need improvement or skills you need to acquire. In order to do that, you not only have to look at your review with a learning eye but you also hav

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Nichelle Rae

Jan 2, 2018
1 min

The Plan is Coming

2018 is bringing changes all over! Tax changes, business mergers, how consumers consume, money changes, how the social climate is affecting the business climate, and corporate structure. Whew, just listing a few of the changes is enough to make you go lie down. Well, I'm here to help. This year I'll be writing more to assist with maneuvering through these changes. I'll be giving you weekly guidance and actions to get you to where it is you want to go. Sometimes the goal is mo

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Little Engine that Could: It's not always about the physical

Nichelle Rae

Dec 13, 2017
2 min

Little Engine that Could: It's not always about the physical

Yup, I'm talking about your thoughts, what you say to yourself at those moments your intuition tells you to go but your thoughts tell you to stop. Your thoughts need to be in-line with your career goals and true level of skills you possess. To start your new focused intentional thoughts flowing, let's stop calling them "goals" and instead call them "plans". Goals are an arms length or more away, plans mean there are steps in place to get somewhere. You now have a career plan

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Nichelle Rae

Dec 4, 2017
2 min

You're Amazing, However

I think you are amazing! Everything about you says I am a Professional and know more than anyone about my field. There is not one person in the office, higher than you or below you, that doesn't say great things about your demeanor, personality an skill set. You're not perfect, but you're so close it's scary. Actually, this whole idea you have about yourself is a bit scary. I'm all about tooting your own horn and believing in your own greatness. However, I don't believe in st

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Nichelle Rae

Nov 20, 2017
2 min

They Don't Own You

Loyalty, in 2017, is to self in all areas of a person's life; work, relationship and community. In the work world, there is no longer the employee who is striving for a pension or even the gold watch at 20 years. Most people in the work world will work at the minimum of 5 companies by the time they decide to stop working. This isn't the worst trend in the world. It shows that people are taking control of their careers. No longer will they toil and wait for the manager to prom

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Nichelle Rae

Jul 20, 2017
2 min

Can You See?

Have you ever been driving or looking out the window when it's raining? If you have, when you look beyond the storm either in the direction it hasn't gotten to yet or the sky it's already passed through, you see a clear sky. It is blue, a few perfect clouds and just enough light to give you comfort. The same calm can be found on the other side of workplace chaos. Workplace chaos can be a number of things: CEO is coming through unannounced, the contract deadline is approaching

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Nichelle Rae

Feb 10, 2017
2 min

Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

This post isn't so much as thought provoking or self reflective as it is a directive on your actions and thoughts and plans. What's the goal? What's the purpose? What's the reason? What is your why? Sometimes with all the busyness at work it's easy to get caught up with the flow of it all. People around you buzzing with their own anxieties which make you think maybe you're not worried and hustling enough. So you raise your hand more, stay later, come in earlier, double up on

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