IT CAN'T BE THIS EASY...ISN'T WORK SUPPOSED TO BE HARD?

Let’s continue with our discussion of the benefits of having written career goals. Thank you for the great feedback from our first edition of http://www.hireopportunities.com/. As promised I will begin to share with you 3 easy, fun and yet very powerful tools for building your set of compelling goals to help direct your career.


Regardless of your current age, work experience or gender as long as you have been alive you have been dreaming of the future. Dreaming while awake is such a normal and automatic function of human life we have often long ago forgotten its tremendous value. Getting started with step 1 of writing career goals will require you to intentionally put the day dreaming skill to work. This is not work! Please don’t turn it into something hard and difficult; this is easy and natural. Just follow the instructions and as they say, “take what you get”. No forcing….just allow it to happen.

Let’s put a name on this exercise; how about we call it “My Top 100 List”? Here is what you will need to get started. A legal pad or notebook, a blue or black ink pen and most importantly 45 minutes of uninterrupted time alone to day dream and write down what you see. The three categories you will contemplate are “The 100 things I am willing to BE, DO or HAVE”. Give yourself 45 minutes of uninterrupted time to write down everything that comes to mind. Your mission is to make a list NOT a “perfect list”. You owe it to yourself to find out all of the things that you have wanted to be, do or have and have yet to action on. Have fun with it BUT you must come away with a Top 100 list!

Do nothing with your completed list for 2 days. You will surprise yourself when you then review your list; many people will have already accomplished 6-10 entries without any awareness of effort to do so. Pretty interesting exercise! Your new mission is to update your list back to 100 and to recognize the ease of these accomplishments. Going forward you will want to review and update your Top 100 list every other day for the first month. If you have an insight to see it, you are actually “exercising” the very muscle you will need in order to write and reach compelling career goals. The Top 100 list is a great tool to for your career tool box. Enjoy “day dreaming” your way to Step 1 of successful career goal setting.

Over the last 15 years I have shared this exercise with thousands of people in workshops and seminars I have conducted around the country. I have received hundreds of thank you notes and emails. If you have anything to share you are welcome to post a comment on our website http://www.marshallcareerservice.com/. You may just inspire someone else to invest 45 minutes in their own best future.

If you enjoy what we have to offer, I would appreciate you taking a minute to point your friends and co-workers to this blog. Our goal is to provide practical career advice that is easy to put into action. In a few weeks I will continue with Steps 2 and 3 of “Creating Compelling Career Goals”.

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