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    The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition
    The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition
    The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition
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    The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition

    By Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

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    The White Box Club Handbook—appropriately named after the daunting white boxes many employees receive to "pack up their things"—was written to provide hope, encouragement, and inspiration to anyone who has been laid off, is unemployed, or in a career transition. Join best-selling author, speaker, and life transition coach Michael Thomas Sunnarborg as he shares his stories, simple tools, exercises, and resources designed to help you know yourself, clarify your new direction, and begin aligning yourself to your ideal career.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Thomas Sunnarborg
    Release dateNov 12, 2015
    ISBN9781310706189
    The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition
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    Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

    Michael Thomas Sunnarborg is an inspirational speaker, best-selling author, and life transition coach. His passion is to help people reclaim their power of choice and find better balance in their work, relationships, and life—especially during transitions. Michael currently resides in Minnesota and enjoys traveling to new destinations, meeting interesting people, and having quality conversations over good food. Learn more at michaelsunnarborg.com

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      Michael’s simple yet profound advice gets to the heart of the emotional struggles this kind of life event brings up for people. Having been in The White Box Club himself, he knows exactly how to help someone go from discouraged to hopeful about the future. – Kathleen Murray, CLC, President, KM Coaching LLC

      Sunnarborg's work strikes a delicate balance between reflection and action—practical resources and emotional intelligence. Part therapist and part career coach, Sunnarborg's book offers readers a long-term solution to work through the career transition. – Soma D. Jurgensen, Owner, Intentional Growth Strategies

      Michael gives you a way to structure your thoughts, time and activities when you find yourself in transition or thinking about making a career change. It is both empowering and calming at the same time. – Mary Texer, IT Manager, Blue Cross Blue Shield

      White Box moments. Tragedy? Shame? Or simply an opportunity in disguise? This luminous book is a metaphor about life’s transitions, and how to navigate the uncertainties of our ‘white box’ moments. It’s engaging, enlightening and written from a position of hope. This is a quite remarkable book. – Rod Johnson, President, Growing Your Leaders

      I wish I had had this book way back when I was laid off TWICE in the same year. The White Box Club Handbook would have guided me in much more productive directions than I took at the time. – Elizabeth (Bette) Frick, PhD, ELS, The Text Doctor LLC

      "The White Box Club Handbook is the ultimate companion for anyone navigating an unexpected career transition. It offers a perfect blend of practical, emotional, and spiritual advice to address the fear and uncertainty that accompanies professional change." – Wendy Griak, Career Counselor

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      The White Box Club Handbook:

      Simple Tools For Career Transition

      By Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2015 by Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part – other than fair use as either brief quotations or in a review – without expressed written permission from the author. Select names in this publication have been used with permission. All other names are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

      The intent of this book is to offer information of a general nature to help support physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. The author assumes no responsibility for any actions as a result of reading and/or applying any of the information or recommendations presented in this book.

      Edited by Kellie M. Hultgren & Elizabeth (Bette) Frick, PhD, ELS

      Cover design by Scott Smith, 12 50 Design, Asheville, NC

      Interior design & layout by Kiernon James

      Distributed by Creative Enterprises LLC

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      * * *

      For my Peggy.

      Dedicated to all White Box Club members,

      whoever and wherever you are. Keep the faith.

      * * *

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Part I: Awareness. Now What?

      1: The Announcement

      2: White Boxes

      3: Money Matters

      4: The Empty Inbox

      5: The Power of Grieving

      6: Losing Your Anchors

      7: Go With the Flow

      Part II: Alignment. Get to Know Yourself

      8: Work Smarter, Not Harder

      9: Who Are You?

      10: Dreaming Out Loud

      11: Finding Clarity

      12: Setting a Direction

      13: You’ve Got Benefits

      14: Resume Refresh

      Part III: Activation. Make It Happen!

      15: Redrawing Your Map

      16: The Power of Choice

      17: Growing Your Network

      18: Interviewing to Shine

      19: Navigating Stormy Seas

      20: Making Lemonade

      21: Life is the Journey

      Closing

      Exercise Supplements

      Appendix A: Financial Assessment Checklist

      Appendix B: Personal Priority Grid (PPG)

      Appendix C: Resume Tip Sheet

      Appendix D: Networking Tip Sheet

      Appendix E: Interviewing Tip Sheet

      Appendix F: Your Mind: Teacher, Creature, or Companion

      * * *

      Preface

      Here’s the deal. This past spring, I had a moment of truth. You know, one of those moments where your entire life comes to a complete stop and you are suddenly staring at yourself in the mirror, asking the question, Now what?

      After publishing a series of books about finding better balance in life, I was working on a manuscript for my next book. And although writing and speaking are my passions, working a full-time job keeps gas in my tank and food on my table. These are just the realities of life.

      Then one morning, without any notice, I was told that my full-time job was over. I couldn’t believe it. I loved my job and the people I worked with each day. I wasn’t prepared to leave it so suddenly. I never thought this would happen to me.

      I decided to use this experience as a learning opportunity. Just as the proverbial phrase suggests, When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. This book is the lemonade.

      I hope that the personal observations, insights, and stories I’ve used to help me get through this challenging, yet powerful, experience will help you navigate through your career transition. Sometimes the only way to truly learn from something is to fully experience it. This book can help you to embrace the events of your life, ride the waves of change, and come out better for it in the end.

      Life goes on!

      Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

      September 2015

      * * *

      Introduction

      A layoff or career transition is a major life event. It’s a big deal for anyone. Sometimes during major life events, we want to hurry up and get through the discomfort without taking time to respond thoughtfully and deliberately to the situation. A sudden career transition is a good example of this. If we are triggered into fear, our first response might be to frantically rush out and take any job—anything to keep our income flowing and our lifestyle uninterrupted. Or, we can choose a different response. This book is about walking down that different path.

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