If you have been feeling stuck, trapped in your current circumstances in a place you are not happy in…
What do you believe is keeping you trapped?
Do your answers sound something like…
- I can’t move up in my career because of my boss
- They don’t promote from within
- They don’t see, appreciate or recognize/reward my talent
- It costs too much to pursue my goals
- I don’t have the time
If your answers are similar to these, you are letting others and your environment control you. You are the puppet and “they” are pulling the strings. Is that the way you want to live your life? I imagine your answer is no!
What to do instead?
Get in the driver’s seat of your career…
It begins by answering these questions:
- How do you want to feel about your career and day to day in your career?
- What do you truly want that would bring that feeling?
- What part of that is in your control?
- For the parts you cannot control, where do you have influence instead?
When you choose to focus on…
- What you want instead of what you don’t want…
- What you can do instead of what you can’t…
- The strengths/skills you can bring to the solution instead of waiting/wishing for something to change “outside”…
That is where real growth happens! Growth that you are the agent in, growth you have chosen and taken the action to create.
Will everything turn out just the way you hope? Not always.
Yet when you are in the driver’s seat of your career, the fork in the road, detours or wrong turns do not trap you. You grab your internal GPS and decide your next route, keeping your eye on your destination instead of the exact path.