Is It Time For Your Annual Career Check-Up?

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

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Author Anne Angerman, a Denver Boulder career coach, has an extensive career in professional development. Anne founded her own career coaching and development service in 1998, and she is available for career coaching services nationwide.

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