Career Change Crossroads
Are you there? At a crossroads in your professional career? Can’t find a position in your chosen field? Maybe it’s time to reevaluate where you are in relation to employment.
What is it that you are truly passionate about? There might be more than one thing that sparks your fire. It’s often been said that if you do what you love, what you’re passionate about to make a living, that the money will come. Take some time to consider what makes you happy.
Making a career change can be quite intimidating for some. But it can also be a very liberating experience for many.If you can figure out how to make a living doing something that you love to do, the day becomes less stressful and things will flow more naturally for you. The universe will begin to give you more than you ever thought possible. So sit down and make a list of what it is that excites you. What is it that fires you up? Don’t try to figure out what you want to do while making your list. Just write down what it is that your are passionate about. You night consider taking some type of career assessment course or test. Now, I don’t think that the results of such courses or tests should be used to create a career map that is written in stone. For example, when I was a wee tad of a lad, I was cross eyed and had a speech impediment. Needless to say, my self esteem was not what it could have been. If you would have told me back then that would choose and be successful in the profession of sales, I would have recommended a competent psychiatrist! I’ve now been in sales for 20 years. So don’t limit or prejudge your results of such tests, use them as a guide. I work with many people who never dreamed that they would enjoy and be very good at sales. But they are. Folks from all walks of life and professions. Also, ask yourself how much do you really want to change your situation. What are you willing to do to create the life that you want and deserve? Are you willing to make sacrifices in the short term? Short term pain for long term gain? And then make a plan, a business plan for your life, if you will. We’ve all heard it before, but it’s hard to get where you’re going if you don’t know your destination.
These are extraordinary times which call for extraordinary measures. I believe that the economic world as we knew it has changed forever. We must adapt, we must change, we must shift our thinking. I also believe that ” attitude capital ” is at least as important as ” intellectual capital “, if not more so in this day and age. We must create opportunity, not just wait for it. We all have a purpose in this play called life. We only need to take a break, find some quiet time and space to reflect. The answers will come if we attract them. But we need to clear our body, mind and soul of everyday clutter to find that time and space which is needed to produce the results that we are after.
At the end of the day, change can be intimidating, yes. We may very well have our fears. But it’s amazing how finding your true purpose in life can alleviate those fears
