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At
certain stages in life we benefit from taking time out to consider our
future. There is an old cliché in career development -
"It is not how quickly you climb the ladder to success that matters so
much as which wall you choose to put your ladder against"
So
taking some time out to consider you values and your goals
is likely to pay huge rewards for your overall quality of life. Do
you want your life to be totally dominated by career or do you have
other considerations. Career Goal setting is about how your
career is going to most help improve your quality of life. This
could include: rising to the top in your chosen field, substantially
increasing your income, increasing your recognition or enhancing your
sense of achievement or sense of fun.
In
is great book "surfing your horizons" by Mike Creagan, Mike asks the
questions What are your horizons? This is a good starting point for your
career goals setting. Look off into your horizons and notice what
you would like to see there. Then use the principles of goal
setting to develop your strategies to take you to these dreamed of
horizons. Recently I noticed that Mike had put the ideas from his
book into an online
career development course.
Like all goal setting
the starting point for career goal setting is to determine what you want
out of life and then you can understand how your career can become a
great vehicle to achieve your life goals. But lets assume for the
moment that you have set a career goal. What next?
Follow the key
steps in the goal achievement program and in particular take notice
the step referred to as "identify your first step".
What is your first
step to achieving your career goals? Confucius is often
credited with the saying "a journey of 1000 miles begins with a single
step". This is essential advice for career goal setting.
Identify your first step, understand how to do it well, prepare yourself
and do it soon. Then you give other things the opportunity to
follow.
As you progress down
your career goal setting path it will be worth reading some of the
related pages on goal setting for
sport, goal setting for
business and goal setting for
health. Each of these pages has information and techniques
relevant to your career goal setting that has not been repeated on this
page. You are also likely to find
Visualisation to be a powerful tool for your career goal setting.
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