Career Specialists, Influencers, Change Makers, LinkedIn Trainers, and TrailBlazers who inspire, give great advice, and change lives everyday-PART 4!

I decided to make 2018, the year I would highlight, and recognize, so many amazing people I have gotten to know on LinkedIn who are absolute leaders on this platform and make my experience so much better!

These people have inspired me, motivated me, and empowered me. I have even done a LinkedIn Dancing Video with some of them! I feel so grateful to have them in my LinkedIn People Pod.

So, the waiting is over....already #4.

Enjoy and if you missed any of the previous three, you can check them out right here:

Part #1

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/career-specialists-influencers-change-makers-linkedin-elsliger-ppcc/

Part #2

https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/career-specialists-influencers-change-makers-linkedin-elsliger-ppcc-1/

Part #3

Part #4

Brian Schulman: (On Attitude)

"My goal is to inspire others, each and every day. It’s a fundamental truth. You CAN chase after your dreams. Even if you fall down…Even if you don’t think you can even hit the ball, let alone launch it out of the park...Know this.Every time you TRY.Every time you GET UP and give it ANOTHER shot.NO MATTER WHAT. You've WON. This is not a BELIEF I hold."

Laci McDowell (On Finding Your Voice)

"Losing my voice taught me to be a better person. A very honest person. A person my daughter can respect. And although I will never be the next thought leader, the ultimate lesson I learned is that I have a voice worth using."

Mark Steel (On Overcoming Imposter Syndrome)

"Remind yourself that fear and doubt are completely natural

List your unique strengths

Never discount praise or accomplishments

Climb Every Day"

Laura Staley (On Courage)

"..Even when we have lived childhood into adulthood terrorized, demeaned, and traumatized sexually, physically, and emotionally, courage rises strongly like a wave in the ocean holding us high on a surfboard, allowing us to breathe deeply and lift our arms to the sky. Discovering safety deep inside our souls becomes a hard-won fertile ground and a gentle, yet powerful place to live. Courage holds us, and the layers of intense pain once felt fully release us to be more fearlessly free, alive, and well."

Mac Pricard (On Fear of Change)

"One of the best ways to overcome the fear of change is to build up your personal sense of openness and creativity. Do things that remind you of your ability to learn, grow, and learn new things."

Maureen Wixon (On Life and Success)

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.'

Brian Almeida (On Possibility)

"The next time you think to yourself something is impossible, I want you to think about the fact that you have another 365 days, or 8760 hours, or 525600 minutes. One year is a lot of time to change your life, and if you start now I can almost guarantee it won’t take you this long. If I can inspire people to do one thing in life it’s Just Start, whatever it is. You want to start your own business, Just Start. You want to write a book, Just Start. You want to change your life, again Just Start. Believe me this is where the magic happens, you will live better, smile more and shine brighter."

Katie Wallace (On WHY?)

"Something switched on in me and I was changed. I couldn’t go back to my job where I wasn’t making an impact. It was sucking the life out of my soul. I had to do something REAL or I wouldn’t be satisfied. The way I lived had to change. The excess, the waste, no more. The way I felt the heat. The way I felt the rain. It all changed. I unplugged from the matrix and plugged into the universe. This was REAL."

Koehler Slagel (The Alternative to Now)

"The reality is in 10 years, 20, 30 all this won't matter, but, the time will happen. Next year will happen regardless of whether you are ready or not.

What's going to matter is you looking back and realizing one of two things; I'm happy with where I'm at because of what I did or I should've done this, I should've done that, and live with the regret."

String Nguyen (On Career Development)

"Passion will follow, but don’t keep fluffing around, once you find something you like, keep honing those skills!"

Shinjini Das (On being a Go-Getter)

"A go-getter truly believes that his story will be one of the greatest stories ever written in this world. There is a very fine balance, because on one hand, as go-getters, we do not want to be perceived as arrogant or brash, but on the other hand, a healthy dose of self-confidence is healthy."

Michael Gililland (On Listening)

"Communicating with the team in a “myway or the highway” technique for short term achievement. However it does nothing but instill mistrust and suspicion, and even paint you as manipulative in the eyes of those you lead. 

A leader that is painted as selfish and unreliable will always struggle to keep the team together. Interestingly the two sides become enemies and not allies."

Lisa Berkman (On Change)

"It starts with Yes!!Yes to change, Yes to admitting what you are doing is not working, Yes to more energy, Yes to a better lifestyle, Yes to more confidence. Yes to you!!"

Jacob Wierzbicki (On Overcoming Victim Mentality)

"I remember looking at the mess my life was in and saying to myself “how will I ever change? There is so much to do!” The only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time, find the small things you can start to change, in turn creating a snowball effect in your life. Conquering one small problem at a time leads to overcoming bigger and bigger obstacles."

Omozua Ameze Isiramen (On Connecting to Purpose)

"Taking the attention off of yourself shrinks the ego and puts you in a state of flow that can connect you to a sense of purpose. In other words, it lets you feel your way to wholeness and resolution."

Anna McAfee (On LinkedIn Community)

"It was a humble reminder that the true value of LinkedIn is in its users and the quality of the people who choose to spend their time here. Its not in the technical algorithms, its design structure or its features."

Alnoor Damji (On Peace)

"Peace is not simply the absence of violence. Peace requires openness, tolerance, diversity, and inclusion. We all can do our part to strengthen the dignity of others."

Anna Marie Cartwright (My Soul Sister and Life Mentor) (On Letting Go)

Your past does not define you. Your childhood doesn't define you. Your work does not define you. You body does not define you. What others say does not define you. YOU get to DEFINE YOU.

YOU and only YOU!

Don't forget to spread some LinkedIn Love especially since today is National Pay it Forward Day!????

Shelly

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