Valentina Savelyeva - Get CLEAR on Your Career: Transformational Lessons to Help You Find Success and Purpose, and Create a Life That You Love

In this simple yet profound book, Valentina shares the secrets of choosing a career path by first learning how to listen to the wisdom of your heart. She then artfully facilitates the reader into taking action in a graceful way, helping to identify and move beyond barriers that may show up. This book is for anyone called to aligning with a vision that is truly a Sacred Yes!

- H. Ronald Hulnick, Ph.D. , president, University of Santa Monica, and Mary R. Hulnick, Ph.D. , chief educational officer, University of Santa Monica, coauthors of Loyalty to Your Soul and Remembering the Light Within

Get clear on your SACRED YESES! Say YES to what inspires you. Say YES to what you love. Say YES to being more of the real you. Valentinas inspiring new book will help you say YES to living a life you love.

- Robert Holden Ph.D ., author of Authentic Success and Happiness NOW!

Transformational Lessons to Help You
Find Success and Purpose, and Create a
Life That You Love

VALENTINA SAVELYEVA

NEW YORK

LONDONNASHVILLEMELBOURNEVANCOUVER

Get Clear on Your Career

Transformational Lessons to Help You Find Success and Purpose, and Create a Life That You Love

2020 Valentina Savelyeva

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Published in New York, New York, by Morgan James Publishing in partnership with Difference Press. Morgan James is a trademark of Morgan James, LLC. www.MorganJamesPublishing.com

ISBN 9781642796391 paperback

ISBN 9781642796407 eBook

ISBN 9781642796414 audio

Library of Congress Control Number:2019950724

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For my clients, whose courage, creativity, and commitment inspire me daily.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Roxanne wakes up to the familiar buzzing on her cell. The screen is flashing 6:30 a.m. As she blinks her eyes for a moment, her mind is quiet, still lost in the dream she was having. At thirty-two, she keeps telling herself that she should be able to get away with getting only six hours of sleep at night but it is not working. She feels tired and her double bed feels extra cold this morning. Roxanne has an impulse to turn over and take another five minutes, but she doesnt get a chance. Familiar thoughts enter her mind and assault her peace. She can feel her breath shortening and her head buzzing. AHHH! Might as well get up! she thinks. She jumps out and walks into the bathroom, turning on the shower, hoping to tune out the noise in her head, but its especially loud today.

I need to figure out my life. I dont know which ideas to pursue. If only I had clarity on what to do, I could move forward and be successful already! There is never enough time to do all that I want. I want to do it all but cant choose. I feel excited by new ideas and projects, but most projects dont go far enough. I am tired of juggling part-time gigs to get my business off the ground. Maybe I should have kept my marketing job before I had more clarity on what to do next. I just want my career to make sense and I want my life and me to make sense!

I still l have some money left over even though I quit a year ago. I guess that is good. But I am so tired of having inconsistent cash inflow from part-time projects with startups! I am avoiding looking at the bank statements, as I know my savings are running low. I dont understand why I cant generate money with all the ideas that I have! I have two graduate degrees, and I was voted one of the most likely people to succeed in high school, so why am I still here at thirty-two?!

I cant understand how I can be so gifted (so everyone is telling me) and feel not good enough. I feel like I am wasting my life! Where is my big life? I feel so impotent with all the big ideas and big visions that keep coming to me. So frustrating! When will I ever feel good enough to do it? When will I have clarity about my life and my career path?

I feel like I have failed everyone. I am not making the difference that I know I can make. I hate this feeling of not being able to take care of others and myself. I am beginning to feel really tied down and constricted because I need to make money, and I am pissed that I may need to go back to marketing and give up the idea of doing what I love and believe in!

I am feeling overwhelmed and tired most of the time. Mom says I need to get married, I probably should. Look at my life! What have I really accomplished?

I know I need to pick a direction for my career, and if that is growing my business, I need to make it profitable. I need to make a bigger difference in this world. I need to express my truth. I feel like a fraud, like I am hiding the truth of who I am. I need more time to follow up and manifest the ideas that I have. I want to be much further along! I am so afraid of dying with regret, and yet regret is here already. My biggest fear is that I will die feeling that life was not worth living, that I didnt get to sing my song. And yet, days are slipping by. And what have I done? NOTHING!

Roxannes thoughts get interrupted by a loud beeping from her iPhone on the bathroom sink. She reluctantly stumbles out of the steaming shower, grabs the towel to dry her fingers and presses the red stop button on the blinking screen. It is 7:00 a.m. and Roxanne is already exhausted and is tempted to crawl back to bed and fall sleep.

This is a regular morning for Roxanne, that is until she becomes fed up and takes a stand. She starts looking for support and gets a referral to my coaching practice.

When Roxanne shows up in my virtual office on Zoom, she claims to be desperate for support for getting clarity with how to proceed. She cant understand why she has been having so much trouble with moving forward.

Roxanne is a beautiful woman, incredibly smart and creative and easily connects with others. It is not unlike her to meet someone in line at Peets Coffee and then be offered a job interview by the time she has ordered her latte. Her work in marketing used to be highly recognized, and in her twenties, she was promoted quickly during the five years that she was working in the corporate world. But she had to leave. It just didnt feel true to what her heart wanted. She felt stifled. She felt like a fraud. She needed to get out.

There are so many inspirational stories about people starting businesses or creating positions that are unique and make such a positive impact. This is what excites Roxanne. She knows that she wants to be one of these successes. So she takes a romantic plunge and quits her marketing job without any clear plans for what is next. She is flying high for a few months, but now a year and a half later, she is feeling flat and dull. So many projects havent gone very far, and she is not even sure if she still wants to grow her business, do consulting, get a full-time job in marketing, or do something completely different.