Don't Abandon Your Career Goals Too Early

Don't Abandon Your Career Goals Too Early

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Mary Catherine Bateson, wrote a wonderfully insightful book titled Composing A Life. Her observation is that Women's lives are not linear but rather constantly shifting. "Our lives not only take new directions," she writes "they are subject to repeated redirection." It's this redirection that gets in our way of making plans and pursuing them through to completion. As a result, when we're interested in returning to them, we may find that we are unable to pick up where we left off and that the workforce is no longer interested in us because we may not have kept up to date with technology or achieved any of our personal goals regardless of how minor they may appear.

Even if circumstances prevent you from achieving your goal, remain involved with your interests and up to date with your field of interest.

You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities you can't be assessed by your potential but rather by your history.

Coaching Tips

-> Rather than completely abandoning your career goals when life throws you a curve, come up with a strategic Life Plan that allows you to keep abreast of developments in your field. Talk to friends and family and ask for their support in helping you to remain on your path.

-> Consider the importance of a college degree, not only to your success, but to your self confidence as well. Even if you don't need it for work, do it for you.

-> When others attempt to derail you from your path, see it as normal but don't give into it. When any system changes, whether it's a political system, an ecological system or a family system, the system tends to want to maintain its equilibrium by going back to the status quo. So it is no surprise that people are used to the status quo being you putting your needs on a back burner - and if they had their choice, they'd keep it that way.

-> If you choose to be a stay-at-home mom for a while, remain involved with your field through participation in professional associations or college courses.

-> Volunteer to do work in your field of interest that will allow you access to the technology and equipment you will need when you return to work.

-> If you are on maternity leave and committed to returning to your place of work, consider requesting a small project during the time you are on leave, thereby staying connected with the workplace.

About the Author:
If you identify with any of the above behaviors, and are serious about achieving your personal and professional best contact me on debbi@mylifecoachdebbi.com to find out more about my Online Career Coaching Service (email, telephone and skype) and how I can assist you to identify those self-defeating behaviors in which you most often engage and how to replace these with new behaviors that will move you closer to achieving your career goals. http://www.mylifecoachdebbi.com



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