You Can Be It! A Bright Teen Girl's Guide to Career Planning and Future Success

By Ariana Smith

Would you like to start preparing for future success today?
Are you looking for advice your school can't teach you?
Do you have unique talents and skills waiting to be developed?

If these questions sound like a challenge to you, then this how-to guide to adulthood and career planning is exactly what you need!

As a teenage girl with so many options and expectations out there, you may not be aware of all the opportunities you have in life. While you deal with friends, family, school, and more, you may struggle to think about what you could be doing in the future.

You Can Be It! will accompany you on your journey of self-discovery, where you will:

start your unique adventure by learning all the success principles for teens looking to get ahead in life.

start preparing for future adventures and choosing the right career path.

This insightful, fun, and informative handbook is about to become your new best friend! You Can Be It! is the ultimate teen girl's guide to a growth mindset that will show you how to:

• Manage changes and take control of your life while planning your career.
• Form the right habits early on and master your teenage life skills.
• Discover how teenage girls like you become successful people.
• Gain social skills and valuable experience for your future.
• Find out about careers you might want in the future.
• Practice with Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time exercises for hands-on problem-solving.
• Learn from the success of great women.

Ariana Smith's You Can Be It! is the perfect gift for growing girls and ambitious young ladies with a bright future ahead of them.

 

Are you ready to take action? Then get your copy and unlock your full potential today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sky Publishing
• Release date: Oct 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9789916416235

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You Can Be It! A Bright Teen Girl’s Guide to Career Planning and Future Success

Dare to Dream Big, Unlock Your Potential, and Direct Your Life

Ariana Smith

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What's Inside

Introduction

1.The Challenge

Success and Failure

Learning Experiences

Getting Your Hands Dirty

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

2.Things That are Perfect

No Mistakes—Learning Experiences

Different Talents

Love & Kindness to Self and Others

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

3.Who Are You?

Self-Inventory

Questions?

Road Map

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

4.The Lifetime Support System

Trusting Others

Seeking Mentors

Baggage People

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

5.Finding the It

The Investigation Process

No Limits

Broad Choices

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

6.Goals & Objectives

Step One

Roll Up Your Sleeves

Hard Work in the Hard Hat Area Ahead!

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

7.The State of Becoming

New Opportunities

Shedding the Sheep Skin

Roadblocks Ahead

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

8.New Horizons

No Limits, But. . .

Your Personal Potential

Basic Knowledge List

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

9.Disciplined Life

Boundaries

Balance

Becoming

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

10.Toxic People & Toxic Situations

Sabotage: Friends or Family

Your Own Path

Reaching Out

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

11.Empowered!

Learning to Fill in the Gaps

Researching

The Life To-Do List

Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves-Time

12.Thank You

13.About the Author

Endnotes

References

Something for You!

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Introduction

You are a very intelligent girl, who has decided to emerge as an extremely knowledgeable, talented, smart young woman! How can someone make the statement that you’re an intelligent young girl without knowing who you are? It is quite simple. You’re here reading a book about directing your own life. You’re seeking out the tools necessary to help you design your own future.

Picture a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. That’s YOU! Usually, the image of a butterfly is put in books to illustrate that a girl is changing. Can you affect how you’re changing? Can you draw a plan for your future like an architect does for a building? Perhaps you can’t design your future that way, but you certainly can direct your own future.

Picture this—It’s like you’re on a movie set, sitting in one of those high, black canvas chairs that folds up and has Director written in bright yellow on the back. Just so you know, your feet can’t reach the floor, but most people’s feet don’t. (Maybe the director’s chair is designed that way to keep the person in the chair humble.) As the Director of your own unique life, you make all the major decisions about what you want to have in it. Perhaps you already have a vision of what you think your life should look like in your future, or maybe you don’t have a clue. Maybe right now you don’t even care what your future holds, and that’s okay, too.

Is there a particular script you must follow? Who will be the stars in your epic life adventure? You’ll be the lead, of course! Will you be directing a drama, a comedy, or an entertaining saga that’s a mix of everything? When you begin to think about these types of questions, it means you’re taking your future seriously, and you’re trying to make a plan for your success. Basically, you’re writing your life script as you go along. But like any other great work, it helps to have some idea of where you’re going, and how to get there. At the very least, an outline would help you direct the script of your life.

Here’s the problem—no one can know their own future—not even you! However, having said that, it shouldn’t mean you can’t take some basic steps now to help ensure your success later on—and to try to make sure any setbacks that might come your way aren’t serious enough to knock you off course. It’s worth noting at this point that setbacks aren’t failures. From here on in, failure is a word that no longer exists in your vocabulary! Every setback is a learning experience that moves you forward. More on that later . . .

For now, buckle up, and get ready for the ride of your life!

Chapter one

The Challenge

Life has been compared to many things—a journey, a twisting, churning river, and a winding path are some of the ways people have described what a person’s life can be like as it moves forward. A famous writer called Charles Warner who lived over a hundred years ago once said, Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. ¹ He meant that when you’re packing for the journey of life, it’s best to pack only the things you’ll really need—just like when you pack to go on vacation and you’re only allowed one small bag! But packing for this big journey called life can be quite a challenge because you’re not packing clothes, your iPhone, or beach stuff. You’re packing what makes you YOU—your thoughts and feelings, the things you do well. Also, your hopes, dreams, and ambitions— and maybe most importantly, your passions. Add a pocketful of determination too, to set you on the right path and keep you going. The rest . . . well, you can leave it behind. It likely will serve no purpose on your journey.

So now, you need to ask yourself some questions about where you want to