You now have the confidence you can change your career and design the job you will love.

You have made the commitment to developing your vision.

Effort is the fuel for this development and the quality you bring to your new project. All the pieces are in place-now comes the hardest part that separates those who want to get to their goals and those who want to get to their goals and follow their action plan: perseverance.

Three Steps To Maintaining Your Perseverance

1. Dreams Come True: Be of the mindset that this is your chance to make your dream come true. Working on your dream is more fulfilling and meaningful than working on someone else’s business. Watch your mindset

2. No Room For Regrets: Don’t allow yourself to be side tracked, sabotaged, or completely derailed by any regrets that could arise from not doing everything possible to achieve your dream goals. Learn from your regrets but do not spend anymore time than to learn–the lesson step here is to value the present and the future

3. Challenge Your Weaknesses: Expect anything worth achieving to come with a set of challenges. Most of these challenges will test your weaknesses. Remind yourself that these challenges will be well worth conquering on your way to reaching your goals

CNNMoney.com’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work for 2007 is a valuable source of information for any Human Resources/Organizational Development director or consultant interested in understanding how to overcome employee challenges for 2008. What makes a company great starts with the quality of it’s human capital. We will review Google, first, illustrating the “why” behind their incredible ability to attract and retain talent.

What separates the Top Companies of 2007?

Google: The obvious answer people think of first is the incredible array of perks including gourmet food, campus lifestyle, hairstylists, dry cleaners, swimming spa, free doctors onsite and other perks too numerous to mention here.

Yet the real answer to why Google is such a sought after company is the philosophy:

1. 10 Things Google Has Found To Be True: is a document that outlines Google’s philosophies of doing business. These are their core values which allows and supports it’s employees in their vision with a open forum of communication of ideas.

2. Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well at Google. This spirit, as evidenced by the policy which encourages engineers to spend 20% of their work time on independent projects, is the main reason for Google’s success– employee loyalty and development.

3. Competitive Balance: Google has a collection of talent with some of the most intelligent, brilliant minds in the world. This best of breed talent pool ensures an environment that fosters personal growth, leadership through core group projects, independent projects which allow employees to “stretch out” and an ongoing training program of 100 hours per employee each year.

4. Healthy Peer Pressure to perform and grow is constant and the driving factor that maintains this healthy competitive balance. The company has a policy where an employee may take a leave/sabbatical (paid) if they feel stagnant or in need of direction.

5. New talent: The final piece of the puzzle that makes Google’s competitive balance corporate culture go. Every year the cream of the recruiting crop applies to Google. This constant stream of fresh talent provides the last piece of “incentive” for current Googlers. If they fail to grow and improve there are virtually thousands of applicants salivating at the opportunity to replace them.

Google is the greatest example of intention manifesting into desired real outcomes of any of the top 100 company.