When is the perfect time to reset your career?
How is your career going right now?
Sometimes you have an event that shows up in your life that completely changes your priorities and perspective on life. Our careers, jobs, businesses, roles, take up a huge chunk of our lives so it makes sense that it can be one of the areas we avoid giving any attention at these times, because it can be the one bit of stability we are clinging on to, or it’s the area that has the most freedom and scope for awesome changes to occur.
Take a global pandemic for example….. many people found themselves furloughed, made redundant, working from home, feeling the industry their career was in felt vulnerable or unstable.
So my question, ‘When is the perfect time to reset your career?’…
If you are able to make some time and space to answer this question, then here are some fab mindset shifts you might want to consider. The first and foremost for me is that like buying a house, have a child, the reality is for may that there isn’t the perfect time….. We can wait and wait for the stars to feel aligned you could be missing out on some amazing opportunities. You have choices – lots of them!
The biggest tip I can give you is to think of resetting your career as a project, it requires preparation, timescales, but more importantly fun! Create yourself a container – this could be a new notebook, a new folder on the laptop – a space dedicated for your resetting readiness 😊
The next step in the career rest process is to accept where you are now, so that the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual energy you have available to you is not being zapped on the woulda, shoulda, coulda’s and is used for the good stuff, like creating, exploring, discovering 😊
Accept freely where you are now, you are where you are right? Any negative thoughts, energy, ‘I can’t do’s’, worrying abo9ut what others might think are draining your resources. Cosciously change your mindset so you fully accept you are ready to make changes in your career going forward, and that is exciting!
The next step and big mindset shift is to look at your current job/career/role as simply an ‘enabler’. It enable’s you to pay your bills, it enables you to have some routine, it enables you to get where you are now to where you want to be, putting it simply it is getting you from A to B.
So, when a colleague, your boss, a client, a customer cheeses you off, simply remember to breathe, smile and imagine the word ‘enabling’ across their faces, or the subject of the email you’ve received that normally would make your blood boil, simply says ‘enabling’ 😊
These 2 vital but beautifully simple steps are the beginning of a magic process that will have you rocking it in whatever the changes in your career will be, that will ensure you are happy and thriving not just coasting, plodding and surviving.
If this blog has
put a bit of fire in your belly
got you excited to discover what your career could be moving towards
made you realise you do actually have choices when it comes to your career
Then take action! If you want some super powerful career coaching to increase your motivation, momentum and mojo - then simply email me now to book a free 30-minute career breakthrough call –claire@hrforhr.co.uk
Much love
CR x
