A little while later another man stopped and approached woman. Again she was asked what townspeople were like and again she asked traveler what his experience had been where he lived before. "Oh, people were great. Everyone was helpful and supportive – a real community." "You'll find people same way here," she said.

People who are winning at working are like that second traveler. They know in work (and life) you tend to get what you expect. And if they're encumbered with emotional baggage and poor expectations, they get poor results. Instead, they follow advice like Deepak Chopra's, "Always expect best and you'll see that outcome is spontaneously contained in expectation."

People who are winning at working are one suitcase people. Like a seasoned world traveler, they've learned what essentials to pack. They bring to work only those skills and experiences that will positively impact their work and future. They leave rest of their baggage behind. Want to be winning at working? Travel light.

(c) 2005 Nan S. Russell. All rights reserved.

Hunt for “spot opportunities” to find secret passageway to employers Increase your exposure to unpublicized job leads and customarily inaccessible decision makers by exploiting Spot Opportunities. These are indicators of movement within a company that can be triggers for hiring. They are beginning of a hiring pattern and usually signal development of a hiring initiative. Wisely and routinely using spot opportunities leaves your competition choking in dust wondering how heck you got inside.

Forget everything you’ve heard or know about finding a job Stop looking for a job and start proactively targeting employers who have problems or challenges you can solve. When you pick a job based on employer need rather than your own you immediately provide tangible value and benefit to busy decision makers and earn right to be heard.

“Greasing Wheel” is exposure-to-opportunity gone extreme The radical method of “Greasing Wheel” is rarely used by job search masses because it involves taking considerable time to research industry and news sources and sniff out possibilities and players with a keen detective-like nose. However, if you keep doing things way you’re doing them now, you’ll keep getting same results. To see changes, in what you get, you need to change what you do. Go extreme.

A sneak peak into Part Three “Reality of Exposure” by showing you how to become a major league pitcher of solutions using fast ball of strategic promotional development.