Sheri Handel

I’m an accidental memoirist passionate about social impact and sharing lessons in writing.

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#personalitytypes #interviewtechniques #introverts #storytelling #storytellingforbusiness

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Speak up already!

I remember this moment as if it had happened yesterday. there were about 20 or more of us in the room, about 15 subject matter experts and my team of instructional designers and our project manager.

We let the room settle after I’d asked a leading question.

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Has there ever been a time when your extroverted or introverted voice has impacted a specific interaction?Feel free to share it in the comments.

Message me if you’d like to find out more about my writing services for social impact.

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Today on my LI Wednesday Reveals series, I share the story of my mother telling my 19-year-old self that writing was not a career, that I could do it when I got older. Funny thing is, I've been writing my entire career. #careerpaths #whatsyourstory #writingservices

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Wednesday Reveal: I didn’t get into the grad school of my choice
But I ended up teaching there instead.
There are times in life when failure brings you to the place you were meant to be.
#resiliency #failuretosuccess #wednesdayreveal #storytelling #careerpaths

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Deep work is good; deep thinking is okay. Overthinking is not good. You can just get to it, write something, and it will fall into place.

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I worked in several very cool places and learned a lot. I left some of these on my own accord. And some departures were not by choice. 
It was the economy’s. And that was hard. 
But I became stronger for those experiences, and I moved on to better opportunities.

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The more you write, the more you evolve organically as a writer, and you're taken in directions you may not have planned. This is only part of the adventure; the other half is when you share your work. It's a wild, wild ride.

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It’s not where you start that matters most.
I was able to change careers because my path was not written in stone.
Flexibility and resilience helped me through.
#resiliency #failuretosuccess #wednesdayreveal #storytelling #careerpaths

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1. Your goal should never be to get too comfortable.
2.Challenges are always opportunities.
3. Consider what you could do that you couldn’t do before, given whatever constraints were associated with that job, marriage, living condition, way of eating, etc.

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It took me a long time to get totally unstuck.

This is because I needed to live the lives I did before I got here. And where I am now is an accumulation of where I’ve been. 

The funny thing is that most of the time I didn’t know I was stuck.

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In recent years I did start to feel somewhat stuck, but it took the end of a multi-year contract and back surgery to break my “dependence” on regular employment.