How to make a career pivot and not lose your balance – 7 steps!
1. See the real vision of yourself
What you are passionate about and what you are good at are not necessarily the same things. Ask yourself, what do people say I’m good at? That could be the real vision of where you need to focus your life goals.
2. Focus on your journey
It’s easy to compare and contrast but many times that will throw you off balance. Recognize that while you will seek guidance, your journey is going to be unique because your visions, skills and desires are unique to you
3. Be prepared for setbacks
Career and life pivots start with dreams, desires and bold ideas and so they should. Planning for the next big promotion, resigning or retiring to start that business, going back to school. Remember that it may be more of a marathon than a sprint and there will be unforeseen hurdles and curve balls. Think Usain Bolt when he false started in 2011. Setbacks are valuable life lessons that can make us stronger.
4. Embrace positive disruption
Growth is really disruption turned inside out. Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Do you really want to argue with Einstein?
5. Take a chance
As an introvert who believes that risk takers are from another planet, this is hard advice. However, taking a chance does not mean that we change who we are, but it does mean that we may on occasion have to do something “wildly” different like relocate, resign, change degrees. It’s not risk taking so much as it is reinvention and reimagination
6. Be your own cheerleader
Nothing works like self-belief! When everybody tells you that you can do it, you actually do it when you believe you can.
7. Get a coach!
A Coach (especially a solution – focused coach) can assist you to free yourself of confusing and limiting thoughts, guide you to create your own, unique solutions and chart a workable plan of action to achieve your career and life goals.
“The journey to the best version of yourself starts with a coaching conversation ” . Lola L. Fong, Founder and CEO of Next Level Coaching Services.
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