Destination: Health, Wealth and Happiness; Six steps to Unlocking your Career Potential from the “Inside Out"

By Nicki Denholm

The style is a 6-step framework, designed to take the reader on a journey from feeling stuck in their career to knowing the way forward, through a process of self-discovery exercises and invaluable advice from an expert in the careers industry. Each step contains exercises for the reader to do as well as personal insights from my 25 years in the careers business. It has a coaching style, as well as providing personal insights from my business and personal life. This is designed to help people get to know themselves better from the "Inside out", so that they can make better and more informed choices about which path is right for them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nicki Denholm
• Release date: Nov 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835560518

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Destination:

Health, Wealth and Happiness

Six steps to unlocking your career potential from the Inside Out.

By Nicki Denholm

Copyright ©️ 2023 by Nicki Denholm

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

The STORY OF YOU

UNIQUELY YOU

YOUR COMPASS

YOUR CONFIDENCE

YOUR EXECUTION PLAN

YOUR SELF MASTERY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

Hello, and welcome to Destination - Health, Wealth and Happiness.

The guide to helping you on your way to a happier and more fulfilling life and career - from the Inside Out.

You’ve bought this book for a good reason.

Maybe you’re feeling stuck in your career, operating on autopilot, doing the same thing day in and day out without any real sense of satisfaction. Or perhaps your work life is super stressful; you’re feeling burned out and unfulfilled. You know something needs to change but are unsure where to start.

Well, firstly, let me assure you that you’re not alone. It’s really common to feel this way at some point in your career journey.

And I know what it’s like to feel stuck.

I started my business, Denholm Associates, over 20 years ago with the vision that has inspired this book. I wanted to create a different kind of recruitment business, one that creates health, wealth and happiness for myself, my team and all the people we help with their careers. A lofty ambition, I know, but we are in the people business after all and what an amazing privilege to help try and change lives for the better. It’s become my mission. I have always believed that work shouldn’t just be hard work, it needs to be fun and fulfilling. We should be getting up in the morning looking forward to the day, the challenges it brings, the team we are part of and importantly, the sense of purpose it gives us. We all deserve that. And yet, I know all too well how easy it is to get stuck and a little lost along the way.

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Me, at the Denholm Associates

launch photoshoot from 2002!

I love my business. It was my first and most demanding baby! But I found myself a few years ago at the end of the Covid pandemic, having to drag myself out of bed, feeling exhausted, and just surviving through my days. It kind of crept up on me that I wasn’t feeling much joy, challenges became problems, and everything just felt, well…hard. I had been working flat out over the pandemic to weather the storm, keep the team employed, and ensure we came out stronger on the other side. While at the same time juggling three children.

It was a full-on and stressful couple of years, and looking back I’d neglected my own health and well-being. I was so concerned with what others needed from me - and thought of me. I wasn’t sleeping well, I had terrible brain fog, and things I had taken in my stride for years were now making me anxious. To top it all, the worse I felt, the harder I pushed myself.

It was a difficult time, but with hindsight, I was being given a sign that something needed to change. My working life was no longer working for me. I needed and wanted something more - and so, after a long while of procrastinating, I set about trying to figure out what on earth to do about it.

What followed, unwittingly, was a journey of self-discovery that has transformed so much in my life for the better - my work included. I appointed an MD, and with the help of an experienced leadership team, the Denholm business is thriving. I’ve taken the role of Chair, which plays perfectly to my strengths, and I’m now helping others to make similar shifts in their own work lives, too. And I am loving it. Life is good again.

My mojo has returned!

I want that for you, too.

This book draws on my 25 years of experience helping thousands of people into a better career.

I’ve listened to CEOs desperate to find the elusive talent to power the growth of their enterprises and to candidates looking for their ideal next career move (often the same people!).

Surprisingly often, they would confide that they had become stuck, lacking in confidence, and unsure how to navigate their way through work/life challenges.

Over the years, I’m fortunate to have become a trusted adviser and mentor, to many hundreds of people wanting to do more fulfilling work, but unsure where to start.

This book isn’t simply about helping you find a new job though; it’s to empower you to make a shift in your work-life through a much clearer sense of who you are and what you want.

It’s all about getting to know yourself from the Inside Out, the person you are at your core, the strengths you have, the things you love to do, and the things that perhaps have been holding you back. And armed with that knowledge, guide you towards a more fulfilling