CAREER CHOICE PROGRAM: HOW IT WORKS


You will go through this entire series of steps on the way to deciding exactly what you want to do with your future. In reality, the decision is not quite as neat and linear as this list because you will frequently be engaged in several steps at the same time, but you will find your final goal becomes clearer everyday as you add more pieces to the puzzle.

  • Make a commitment to your future. Decide to decide and make definite commitments that you are willing to keep, even when you don't want to.
  • Begin by looking in. Design a career that fits you rather than trying to squeeze yourself into something the wrong shape or a few sizes too small.
  • Seek self-expression. Your perfect career requires that you be who you are fully and do what you do naturally.
  • Make "What am I going to do with my life?" manageable. Explore and then consider smaller, vitally important components of your perfect choice.
  • Ask resourceful questions. The quality of your answers depends on how focused, succinct and clear you are willing to be when posing important questions.
  • Delve deeply into all questions. Each one is designed to shed light into a single crucial area in a way that allows you to use it to make clear decisions.
  • Design your career one piece at a time. Build it from solid chunks, made from definite commitments based on ALL of who you are.
  • Fit together everything you are sure of. Construct your future piece by certain piece as you go through this process.
  • Go for vitality. Be unreasonable. The question is not whether to take risks or not but which ones to take. The peril of being reasonable is that you miss all the fun.
  • The bottom line. You have been seeking questions and answers internally, now it is time to do some research in the outside world.
  • Repeat the steps of this process. Define enough pieces of the puzzle to be able to make the final decision and then, make the leap!
  • Persist in spite of obstacles and setbacks. If you quit before you reach your goal, you won't reach it—elementary but true.
  • Celebrate. Make this process one of joyful creation and when you have decided what to do with your life, celebrate!


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