CHAPTER 29Putting Your STAR Mindset Into Action

What to Expect: Putting together a comprehensive career blueprint and development plan is important but is ultimately worthless without implementation. This chapter shows you how to put your plan and everything learned in this book into action.

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become.

—Margaret Thatcher, from the film The Iron Lady

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

—Lowell Thomas

Now that you took the time to build your career blueprint, the next step is to ...

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