Your reputation

• How can you draw upon your reputation in your current situation?
• From whom have you collected I.O.U.'s? Who have you done things for who might feel they owe you something in return?
• How could you enlist their help? Advice? Contacts? Partnership?
• Who are you a customer for? How could they help you?
• What are you known for? What sort of help do people turn to you for?
• What does that tell you about your strengths?
• What feedback have you obtained about how people value you?
• How can you build on those personal qualities or skills?
• How can you use them to address your current challenges?
• What things does your boss most trust you to do?
• What risks have your boss, ex-boss or other customers taken with you - allowing you to take on assignments with high stakes?
• What does that tell you about your strengths?
• What doors might your reputation open for you?
• What people might it enable you to see?
• How can they help you?
• When faced with a problem, we can be diverted into a negative channel that narrows our range of options. Make a list of all your strengths as indicated by your reputation and how each might be a resource for you. Doing this systematically might yield surprising results.