What’s Your Career Plans are You Moving Forward with Purpose

Posted on August 28, 2012 by admin

You need to know where you want to go if you want to get ahead fast. Or else your efforts will most-likely be detached and unproductive, and you will have poor results. So how do you know if some aspects of your career need changing? With a logical direction and clarity you will be able to focus your attention, and identify those that may just need a little tweaking. For some this may mean a complete change of direction; others might only need a small re-alignment or a sharpening of focus.

Whatever the range of the push you need, you need to put together a plan to move your career in the right direction.

Here are 3 steps to establish where you are now.

Step 1 Career Goal Setting

In order to achieve something, you need to set relevant goals and this is no different for your career. This helps you identify exactly what you want, and gives you something real to aim for. By setting career goals, you can stay focused, and get back on track when distraction gets the better of you.

A great goal is inspiring and motivating.

And the best part is that as you start achieving your goals, which builds your self-confidence and will push you to set and achieve more and more of them. This is where the strongest form of career boosting energy comes from!

So go ahead and give yourself a head start, begin setting some career goals now!

Step 2 Setting Long-term Goals

Research shows that long-term goals is needed to build real, world-beating expertise in an area – just as long as you work very hard!

Long-term goals timescale:

5 years

1 year

6 months

1 month

Next week

Today

Make sure that you keep on working towards your most important goals on a day-by-day basis – this helps you make sure that you are continuously working towards your lifetime goals. This brings your long-term goals out of the realm of the inconceivable, and into the realms of everyday action.

Tip: Set up a regular review process to make sure your lifetime goals and daily goals are consistent with one another (a good way of doing this is to set up a quarterly recurring review.) Change them as required as your own priorities, situations and experiences change.

Setting motivating goals is important; this is what will provide the fuel you every so often need. These are your key long-term goals.

Step 3 Planning Your Approach and ACT

With your career goals set, it’s time for action. Writing them down is just the start of the journey. Now it’s time to commit to yourself, and even openly declare, what you intend to achieve, why, and how. Some people create daily reminders to provide the motivation they need to keep going.

The time is now and the opportunity is yours. Career momentum requires fuel and that comes in the form of hard work, determination, and a string belief that you can do whatever you set your mind to.

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