Inspiring, bold, proactive and persistent. Ellen Church turned a no into a yes. She made a place for herself in that organization. What was her secret and how does it relate to your job search? A job search is much same. You need to be different in your approach but be prepared to hear no and have a few doors shut in your face. Learn from that opportunity and come up with a new game plan. She didn’t back down, but found another way.

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As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, I witnessed ordinary people performing extraordinary feats on countless occasions. I documented individuals in moments of crisis and emergency going beyond limits they and society believed possible. Caught up in earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and accidents, I watched mild-mannered people become super-heroes.

When extreme circumstances demand action, paranormal abilities arise from normal folks. Women lift two-ton trucks and hold them aloft until their child or husband is freed from beneath vehicle. Young boys perform successful medical procedures as if they were trained professionals. Men lead victims to safety through burning buildings, pitch-black forests and raging floods. Teenagers bend steel and rip open closed elevator doors to liberate loved ones. Scared people jump ten feet over a chasm to safety. Given a death sentence by doctors, people heal themselves spontaneously.

"Where do human beings get power and knowledge to perform such implausible feats?" I wondered. I observed that when life offers people a choice between their beliefs in what is possible and necessity to save another from harm, people often scrap their perceived limitations and choose to do whatever needs to be done. Every day people choose life, caring and rescue over restrictions of their belief systems.

"If we can break out of our belief box when life has us up against wall, why can't we release our limiting beliefs at will when we are not in a crisis?" I inquired within myself.