The economy is out of your control. How can you take control back of your LIFE and recession proof it? Phil Gerbyshak teaches you how to Make a PLAN and Make It Great! to help YOU recession proof your life.

1. Recession Proof Your Life:
Make a PLAN and Make It Great!
Phil Gerbyshak
Relationship Geek
http://philgerbyshak.com

2. Background about Phil

4. How Can You Make It Great?

5. Do One New Thing

6. You’ve got to have a PLAN!

7. What do you stand for?
P IS FOR PURPOSE

8. quot;Many persons have a wrong
idea of what constitutes true
happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but
through fidelity to a worthy
purpose.quot;
Helen Keller

9. YOUR PURPOSE IS YOUR
BRAND

10. Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyknit/417661856/

11. Values

12. Purpose Question
• Does this decision fit with my life’s
PURPOSE?

13. Let’s create your purpose pitch
• Short
• To the point
• What you WANT to be known for

14. L IS FOR LEARNING

15. quot;ANYONE WHO STOPS
LEARNING IS OLD, WHETHER AT
TWENTY OR EIGHTY. ANYONE
WHO KEEPS LEARNING STAYS
YOUNG.” - HENRY FORD

16. Pickups and Drop Offs

17. Learning Questions
• What did I pickup today?
• What did I drop off today?

18. A is for Attitude

19. YOUR ATTITUDE IS INFECTIOUS
– IS YOURS WORTH CATCHING?

20. ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

21. Attitude Question
• How can I reframe my thinking about this
situation to make it more positive?

22. N is for Networking

24. Network for Others
Feed Your Friendlies

25. Network for You
Who Knows You?

26. New Media
Connect with your team, and
your customers

27. Rules of New Media

28. Rules
• No silver bullets
– Every candidate and every company uses it
differently
• No control
– Nobody has to use social media

29. Rules (con’t)
• GOOGLE IS (and diamonds are)
FOREVER!
• There really are NO RULES!
– Anything goes

30. Google is (and Diamonds are)
Forever!
Gmail
•
Gtalk
•
Google Alerts
•
Google Blog Search
•

31. Why Should You Care About
New Media?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/3086805262/

32. Look Who Uses It
• The Army uses podcasts
• Ford Motor Company uses Twitter
• President Obama has 4.5 MILLION
Facebook friends (as of last night)
• RECRUITERS use it instead of job boards

33. What do you want to do with
New Media?

34. Twitter
@philgerb

35. Facebook
Connect on a personal level

36. LinkedIn
Build your reputation,
Share your network

37. Plaxo
Never forget another birthday!

38. Blogs
• Read ‘em
• Write ‘em
• Share ‘em

39. #1 Tip for Participating in New
Media
• Show up

40. Networking Questions
• Who do I need to meet today?
• Who needs to meet me?

41. Your PLAN
P – Purpose filled life
•
L – Learn as much as you can
•
A – Attitude matters (a LOT!)
•
N – Network with others and let others
•
network with you

42. Do One New Thing

43. Connect with Phil
• makeitgreatguy.com
• slackermanager.com
• phil@philgerbyshak.com