Karla Blanco - Unleash Your Career Potential: 7 Steps to Living Your Dream

Completely inspiring. A work that shows the most critical career human side. Recounts the challenges, experiences, and ups and downs that many of us face in our work environments. Challenges the status quo, extols the potential of human talent, and motivates us to introspect on our values, objectives, and strengths. The book becomes an extraordinary tool to assimilate the challenges posed by an increasingly globalized and digital transformation that we are living right now.

Mauricio Monge Quesada , Editor in Chief, Markets & Trends Central America, communication strategist with more than eight years in publishing, media and project leadership

This book offers you a practical and deep path to connect your personal purpose to your career. A powerful key that will allow you not only leverage your career but mainly collaborate with the change you want to see in the world. What a guide!

Fernanda Sato , Corporate Change Maker and Women in STEM Lead, Brazil

More than a truly great book; captivating, insightful, brilliant. Breaks the mold by not only providing examples but also giving a practical guide, step by step for each of the readers to become CEOs of their careers.

Timothy Scott Hall , Global Transnational leader in Latin America

Unleash Your Career Potential is an inspiring book, containing a provocative call to action. Seven steps guide us through the bookrelating experiences with practical exercisesto help us become aware of our level of job satisfaction, our expectations, dreams, values, and, above all, give us a roadmap to take action and achieve that professional career dream. Unquestionably, taking out a notebook and colored pencils, as requested by the author, will be a fascinating experience for the reader who dares to take on the challenge of not only reading this book, but also acting in accordance.

Martha Castillo , Economist, Director of Deloitte Academy Costa Rica

Karla is a role model, change agent, and leader. This book is showing women and men what is truly possible when they step into their greatness and become the CEO of their career and life. This book is a gift for anyone that wants to live their full potential.

Michelle de Matheu , aka The Soul Stylist, Spiritual life and Business coach, USA

This Unleash Your Career Potential book is a life changing book. The author, Karla, used her own professional career experiences and examples to guide people step by step through how to achieve a meaningful career thats full of fulfillment. Karla focused on how we can be the best version of ourselves and bring the most value to people. This book is a best book ever.

Shuping England , Operations Manager at Cyracom International, USA

7 Steps to Living Your Dream

KARLA BLANCO

NEW YORK

LONDONNASHVILLEMELBOURNEVANCOUVER

UNLEASHYOUR CAREER POTENTIAL

7 Steps to Living Your Dream

2020 KARLA BLANCO

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To all the brave women that take full ownership of their careers and thrive by unleashing their full potential. Easy? Of course not, but those that assume the challenge enjoy a career of significance, and its so worth it. The world needs all those leaders to show up, bringing their full selves to the table. Looking forward to hearing about all your stories.

Did I do enough with what was given to me?

Roz Hudnell

As an author, my purpose is to open a door to those that would like to enjoy meaningful careers. For those that dont want just a job, but a place where they can add value, grow, and thrive. For those that want to find work that matters and want to leave the world in better shape than it was in when they were born.

Life surprises us in many ways and gives us many challenges. Depending on where we are in life, we are affected by our mindset (growth, stagnation, or scarcity), how we process those challenges, and how flexible we are to channel themwhether we see them as the force to continue our expansion or as a hold back, a slowdown, or something that makes us get stuck on our career journey. But the reality is that its on us to determine how fast we move out of a challenging situation and in what direction we move.

For example, you are involved in a long transition, with many changes in it, you need to keep a strong connection with your essence and your vision, to adapt in a flexible way with a growth mindset and keep moving forward. Ive been in transitions where, within two years, many groups changed in scope, managers, and team memberswhich also changes the group culture, priorities, and rolesbut at the end of the day, how we face those situations is our choice. Its our choice to keep up and continue moving forward. Moving forward may mean re-assessing our career objectives in light of the changes or even moving to a different group or company that is in alignment with what we want to achieve in life. In order to build the career of our dreams we need to be clear on what we want, and this book will take you on a journey to clarify your purpose and priorities and define your path and dream career.

When we are in school, we are promised that if we choose certain specific careers we will get the income that we expect and will become happy. But nobody can tell us what our passions, values, or strengths are, which are big components of that happiness. That is something that we need to discover on a journey inside ourselves, and unless we connect the job of our dreams with our inside, that promise of happiness will hardly be conceived. Happiness doesnt come from a specific job or other external factors. All external factors can give us a temporary feeling of happiness, but as soon as we get them, that happiness fades away or only lasts as long as our need is perceived as satisfied. Meanwhile, when we are able to connect with our essence and keep growing from there, the external become less important and we have more appreciation for the small things, like a beautiful sunset or a flower blossom.

By 2030, as many as 800 million jobs could be lost worldwide to automation, according the McKinsey report. But there will be many new jobs requiredwe already know that many of the careers that will exist in the future dont even exist today, just as there are many jobs today that didnt exist ten years ago, such as social media management, many online jobs, UBER drivers, and many others. The way we live, work, and get entertained is definitely changing, but then, how can you decide what will be the career of your dreamsdoes it exist?