5 Steps To Re-Inventing Your Life and Career!

Well I’ve just returned from my recent stop on my Blast Off Rocket Tour.

Today’s headline, Allison Hits Chicago!

What a fun city. Fireworks over Lake Michigan, great shopping, bustling

downtown, and did I say great shopping? Oh, by the way, Oprah said to

tell you all, “Hello!” Well, I know she would have said hello if I had met

her…LOL.  However, I was too busy doing an interview on Fox News

discussing the 5 Steps To Turning Your Dreams Into Reality….Enjoy!

Click Here to watch my Fox Chicago Interview

Since I was only able to get out my first two points,

(you’ve got to talk fast on TV),

here are some more beneficial tips to bringing your

dream business or passion into

your life right now.

1)   Get Clarity on Your Goals and Dreams:

If time, capability or money were no issue, what would you choose

to do for a career? What activities or hobbies would you want to experience?

Once you remove the limits from your mind, Read more »

Sam The Cooking Guy’s Career Blast Off!

As a little boy, I had no idea what I wanted to do when I grew up. No dreams of being a doctor, lawyer, policeman—no particular desire to do anything. My uncertainty about a career direction becomes totally obvious if you look at the list of jobs I later racked up between the ages of twenty and forty: welding shop clerk, advertising agency junior account executive, assistant marketing manager of a retail sporting goods chain, pizza delivery driver (not as bad as you’d think), TV studio production assistant (worse than you’d think), frozen yogurt franchisee, real estate agent, cookware store assistant manager, biotech company director of operations, television travel show host, and biotech facilities consultant. And the list doesn’t even include the three hours I spent as a telemarketer—I couldn’t even make it to lunchtime.

With all these job changes, it came as no surprise to anyone that I was once again trying my hand at something new—this time, hosting a cooking show. Was I a great cook? No. In fact, I’d not really done much cooking at all. Did I have years of television experience? No. Was I related to a well-placed television executive who could land me a job? No. Honestly, I didn’t have much. But what I did have would ultimately become much more powerful than anything else I could put on a resume. Read more »