Charting Your Own Course for Your Career
SUMMARY
Do you feel like your career is just something you do every day? You get up every morning, go to work, come home, and it's like Groundhog Day. You're not really sure what it is that you're doing it for other than collecting your salary.
Well, stick with me because this week, I want to start talking about more intentional career planning.
What is your ultimate purpose in life? When you understand that, you will be able to fit everything — including your career — into that so that it does what you want it to do rather than controlling your life.
TRANSCRIPT
Do you feel like your career is just something you do every day? You get up every morning, go to work, come home, and it's like Groundhog Day.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, Leadership and Sustainable Performance Coach, and today I want to continue our conversation on these 9 Crucial Shifts by helping you to set your own course in your career.
This shift that we want to talk about this month is going from scattered — where you are just doing stuff, there's no real purpose behind it — to being planned.
I'm not talking about "planned" in terms of your calendar or business plan. I'm talking about the plan you've got for your life and then the plan that your career has to be a part of that life.
One of the things I love to do with my clients when we're going through this process is to ask them: "Imagine that you had 15 minutes where you were in front of an audience all around the world. What would you like them to learn? What would you like to leave them with?"
I guarantee that if you give it some thought, it won't have anything to do with what you do in your career. It would be a higher purpose than that. I like to call it your calling.
What is your ultimate purpose in life? When you understand that, you will be able to fit everything — including your career — into that so that it does what you want it to do rather than controlling your life.
And that starts with YOU looking at YOUR VALUES.
Well, that's it for me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue this conversation and start looking at your vision. I'll see you then.
