Hey, Dan here and today I'm answering a question about how you can get out of a rut as an ENFP.
If you find yourself working in your inferior functions or just struggling
and not being your true ENFP self, how can you get out of that rut? And I'm answering this question
from Michael who is an expat from North America living in Lisbon, pretty close to me here. Hey
Michael, if you're watching this, which I assume you will, because if you send in a question we do
generally send you back the response. By the way, if you go to dreamsaroundtheworld.com and
go to the #AskDan section you can now submit your question via a voice note which is what
Michael did. So Michael said he does work either with clients or as a job in sales and marketing,
primarily for startups. And so sometimes he's been working I guess directly for them, sometimes as
more of a contractor or service provider and that he's been struggling and hasn't had a consistent
flow of clients for the past I think he said 14 or 15 months, and how can he do that? He hates
applying for jobs, he hates that whole process. Listen, I don't blame you. I hate applying for
jobs. It's probably one of the reasons I've been an entrepreneur for over a decade. Even when times
are really bad I was like, yeah, I can't afford food, I bring my own coffee and a reusable cup to
Starbucks, but it's still easier than putting together a proper resume, I'll tell you that
much. So I totally get that and that's why I would approach this whole thing differently. Don't try
to get better at applying for jobs, use your ENFP abilities to go after jobs, right? What do you do
best? Use your ENFP abilities and take a totally different approach to either getting clients or
getting a job. Maybe you love connecting with people, right? So start networking like crazy.
Form some different networking groups online. Can't really go to them in person right now,
but you know, whatever, you know what I'm saying right. Get involved with people, with groups,
do what you do best. Maybe you're really good at creating things. Like for me, I love creating,
like videos, like teaching, like training. If I was looking for a job, which, don't worry guys,
will never happen. I swear that to you...I don't even need to cross my fingers, this is never gonna
happen! I would put together some kind of a video, or presentation, or training that would show
people not really why it was awesome directly, it wouldn't be like why you should hire Dan,
but I'd be teaching something, so you know, the 10 things a startup really needs to know if they want
to succeed post covid. Boom! You put together your presentation, you do it as a webinar and then you
send it out to different companies that you might want to work with. That's tapping into a natural
ability you have. Forget the resume. If you put together a great presentation and a company gets
that, they're not thinking wait, wait, we have to check his resume. They're thinking this guy knows
his stuff, he's smart, he's well spoken, he can communicate...if you can't do any of those things,
you know, get good at them or whatever, do it in your own superpower. But you know what I mean.
You can bypass all that. I have a friend who's the Dean of a law school he doesn't have a PhD,
and he's never even been a professor. He skipped like two rungs of the ladder. There are professors
at business school who never went to business school and maybe in some cases never even went to
school right. So all these qualifications that are put out there are a way to filter people out and
generally to keep things structured and organized and whatever. And if you try to play that game,
great good on you, but it's going to be a battle when you suck at playing that game. If you hate
doing resumes, don't play the resume game, play your own game. Go around it. You're going to end
up having much better results when you go away from the herd and do your own thing and your
own approach. Think about it, if someone's hiring at a company and I've been hiring a lot over the
last year. You put up a job, post somewhere you get 100, 200 applications, it is a pain
in the butt to look through. No one wants to do that right. If someone came to me and they just
blew me away with a presentation or something they did, I'll use my own case. They took one
of my videos and remixed it and made it 20 times better, or they showed me what a great writer they
were with something they'd done, or, or whatever it happens to be. Maybe they figured out a problem
I had and solved it in advance. I would be like, done, let's have an interview, let's get to this
or maybe even just hire them right away. No real human likes reading through resumes right.
It's not enjoyable. So when you bypass that whole system, then not only do you make it easier for
yourself, but you also make it easier for the person who will decide if they actually hire
and work with you, which is always good. So think about what you are really good at, hell,
you told me you advise companies on marketing. So think about that, how would you market yourself
if you were your own client would you say hey go send out resumes? Of course not. You'd find a much
more creative approach. Do that for yourself and you will find yourself with new clients or a job,
if that's what you want, in absolutely no time. I should mention at this point. I think you might
even be receiving some free training on it you mentioned, I do have a program for freelancers
and coaches and consultants, we don't forget the consultants, called The Free Freelancer.
Which is a training and group coaching program for just what it sounds like. Where we focus
on mindset, and getting clients, making proposals, marketing, all the practical stuff, as well as,
sort of like what I talked about in this video, like the strategic ways of doing things,
building your business around your personality so you're not always feeling drained and struggling.
So if you're interested in learning more about that I'll include a link to the program page
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