Day 1-5 Make sure you know what you want and where
you want to go.
This is the fundamental question that we all seek to know the answer to.
What do we want to do in life? There are so many choices, how do I stick to just
one?
The answer is that you don’t have to. You can have several different jobs in a
lifetime. However, this doesn’t negate the importance of career decisions.
The problem is, because there are so many choices out there we can often be
stuck in a state where we are not moving because of procrastination.
Procrastination leads us to no decisions and gets us nowhere. At the end of the
day, often we have to bite the bullet and decide to take action, which is why I
have called my website ‘youth into action’. (www.youthintoaction.com.au)
Reflecting on what we want out of what we are doing for the majority of our
working life will constantly evolve and be refined, so this isn’t the only time that
you will look into this process.
You may begin your working life and realise that there is a piece of the puzzle
missing and you can adjust accordingly to compensate for this.
So, to begin, how do we find out what we want to do?
One method is to think about what we are good at. If we are aware of what we
are good at then we can perfect that through what we do 8 hours a day in our
working lives. To a lot of us, this is obvious. To others, it is not so obvious.
Another method is thinking about what fulfils us. The above method may not
apply to you because you might be OK at a few things but not great at anything.
What fulfils us essentially means what we feel good about doing.
What satisfies us at the end of the day may mean helping certain people with
technical problems, assisting people to get to great health levels or making
people feel good about themselves through their wellbeing and their appearance.
Which one of these do you think you belong to?
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