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Is It Time For Your Career Annual Check-Up?
I've learned as a professional career coach that a lot of people don't consider their career plans as often as they should. Why not take a few minutes to gain some perspective and look back on the past year on what you've accomplished and learned? Provided that you look at the big picture, conducting an annual personal career review is a wonderful career coaching exercise. Your annual career check-up should include the creation of a plan for next year and it should also touch on issues close to you and how you really want to live your life.
Ask yourself eight questions during your personal annual career review:
1. How have I been with my job? Happy?
2. With my personal life: How happy have I been?
3. How I have been with what I do for myself? Happy?
4. Did I do something that expresses my most strongly held values regularly?
5. What is one thing I would change about my job if I could?
6. What do I wish was there that I left out of my life?
7. I admire a person whose life is?
8. What should your game plan for the next year of your career look like?
A good goal has a positive end. It should be something you want, not something you hate or think you should do. "I am going to exercise more" is one of those goals that sounds nice, but will undoubtedly end up on the back shelf. Instead set goals like: "I am going to find some kind of exercise that I enjoy. I will walk three times a week for 30 minutes."
A strategy should move you toward something good that you find fulfilling, enjoyable, productive, and rewarding. What especially do you find fulfilling in your life? What makes you lose all sense of time that you do? Increasing what you find meaningful in your life can have a significant positive benefit for people around you and for you.
Finding a good strategy should move you away from unproductive, unfulfilling, meaningless or unrewarding things and people. What in your day do you hate doing? What feels like a waste of your time? Who on the phone do you not enjoy talking with? If you decrease what you find unrewarding in your life, you will learn to give yourself a sense of internal control over what happens to you.
While change is difficult, you "can" lead the life you desire and make your goals a reality. Do not hesitate to contact a professional career coach for support and guidance, and remember to take baby steps toward your goals. Hiring a career coach can help you decide on what is most important; it is a smart investment. We work with you to achieve your goals.
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