Now that you started, are you going to finish?

Welcome back! Hope you have enjoyed the first principle and did the action steps. Did you? Good! If not, go back and do them. Do them, now!


“ Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.” ~ David Allen

The First Quality: They are Future-Focused

They let go of who they used to be or what they used to do.
They leverage their past in search of their future.
They know they must reinvent themselves in their adopted country.
They know what they want and they're determined to get it.

Now, please take your time and go through these next five steps. Be clear and specific.

1. What do you need to let go of?
• Status/ Money/ Qualifications
• We hold on to many things that hold us back. If you want to succeed, you must accept that it is totally up to you. Sure, things outside of your control will affect your progress (see recent recession), but you need to accept it and, if possible, use it. One of the techniques that worked for me, it was meditating and Forgiveness. You need to drop your unnecessary baggage (Forgive yourself, forgive someone who's done a great wrong, your social/professional status in the former country, qualifications, money, etc.) Forgiveness is your choice - a very empowering choice - not a feeling, and it is incredibly healing.  Let Go! Breathe and relax. Just forgive and be happy!
2. Who do you want to be?
• Career/ Community
3. How are you going to market yourself?
• What are you going to do to position yourself?
• Are you communicating with influence? Develop resourceful internal states: confidence, curiosity, focus, enthusiasm, passion, openness. Smile!!
• Align yourself with a successful organization.
4. Who can help you?
• Whatever you look for, that's what you'll find!
• This is not a "Secret", it is basic psychology - what you focus on you tend to get more of - so, you need a well-formed, defined and developed outcome of what/who it is you want and focus on it.
5. How can you help them?
• If you want to be successful, be VALUABLE to people that are VALUABLE to you. Simple have a high, unconditional respect for the other person, and be genuinely curious about them and what you can do to help them.

“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” ~ John M. Richardson, Jr. quotes

The Ten Qualities of Highly Successful Internationally Experienced Professionals

This blog is based on Mike Lipkin's The Ten Qualities of Highly Successful Internationally Experienced Professionals workbook


"Since 2001, Environics/Lipkin has surveyed and interviewed thousands of immigrant professionals in Canada and identified the qualities of highly successful IEPs and how you can acquire them. These qualities cut across all national and ethnic origins." Mike Lipkin, President, Environics/Lipkin


For those of you who would like to read the workbook right away, please click here. And, please come back to this blog because we would like to share many insights with you about how to be prepared to become a highly successful IEP. Furthermore, we would like to network, connect and inspire others to become the same.


Be The Surprise That Others Want To Have ~ Mike Lipkin

Mindmap of The Ten Qualities of Highly Successful IEPs.

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." 

~ Lewis Carol