Employable and Useful
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1481234129/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
In today’s challenging economic climate it can be easy to lose hope when envisioning career prospects. This inspiring read opens up the possibilities for prospective candidates who are currently seeking to establish a fulfilling career and renewed sense of purpose.
[EXCERPT FROM EMPLOYABLE & USEFUL]
Chapter 1
Your True Potential
Are you truly living or simply
existing? For you were created for a unique and special purpose. What
does your day look like? For a monotonous life can become not only
tedious but unfulfilling. What picture are you painting your life to look
like? For without a vision you may be creating a dull scene which lacks
the essence of creativity and spirit. What specific plan do you have for
your life in both the short term and long term? For without a defined
plan you may be drifting aimlessly through life and end up going wherever the
winds and waves take you!
Goal setting is vital if your life is
to be worthwhile in which this powerful process will shape your vision into a
reality. To make a conscious effort to plan on purpose is also to live on
purpose. Whatever you desire in life won’t simply fall from the sky into
your lap thus a definite strategy must be in place for your visions to come
about.
The purpose behind establishing goals
is to assist you in being decisive about where exactly you want to go in life,
such as where you see yourself in 3 years from now. This process will
enable you to identify where to concentrate your efforts and to streamline your
activities accordingly. Once your specific aims have been realised you
will be in a better position to recognise the distractions when they come
about.
To have long term goals in place
provides you with an overall vision yet it additionally helps you with regards
being motivated in the short term as you journey towards your goals.
Highly accomplished persons from various fields make use of the process of
setting goals in order to focus their energies in a specific place i.e.
athletes, business people, entrepreneurs and the like. This enables them to
release the knowledge they have thus acquired in an orderly fashion, with their
time being organised to achieve their dreams. Once you become confident
in the setting and accomplishing of your goals your self-confidence will
simultaneously increase enabling you to expand your vision.
The setting of goals can be followed
in orderly steps whereby your significant lifetime goals can be written down in
the first instance to begin accomplishing your objectives. Hence, written
down instead of merely held in your thoughts, for thoughts can dissipate or
even be forgotten yet the discipline of writing down your goals is an important
step not to be missed as this makes them crystallize and increase the
likelihood of success. Your ideas written down can then be impressed upon
your mind in such a way as to make them a priority in your thoughts and to be
translated as a possibility for your future. Articulating your goals by
this procedure brings a renewed sense of clarity of thought that can be worked
upon on a regular basis.
A broad and balanced coverage of the
departments of your life can be compartmentalised into the main aspects of your
life that require decision making. In this fashion you can summarize your
life by diving it into the main categories in which an example is shown as
follows:
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Family
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Career
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Finance
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Health
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Public Service
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Relationships
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Recreation/Leisure
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Social Life
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Personal Development/Character
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[Add another category]
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[Add another category]
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[Add another category]
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For each of these categories you can
further your ideas by brainstorming relevant and keywords that relate to that
component. This will assist you in opening up your creativity and going
beyond any former perceived limitations. By this method you will begin to
create a diagram in which the centre will be the main theme and the other components
of the diagram will comprise the sub-categories or ideas connected with the
main theme. For example if the main theme was listed as ‘career’ then the
keywords that come from this could be ‘qualifications’, ‘achievement’,
‘service’, ‘dedication’, ‘awards’ and any other connotations that come to mind.
Following the establishment of your
lifetime goals you can then begin to explore the smaller goals that make up the
smaller stages in the achievement towards your lifetime goals. By this
you would then create a plan which could cover the span of 6 months, 1 year, 5
years, 10 years or another time period that is relevant for your journey.
With these setting in place it is then advisable to create a daily ‘to-do-list’
that is in line with the vision of your aims that you want to achieve
overall. Your plans would need to be reviewed periodically and then
modified to then reflect any modifications required in adaptation to your
experiences and advancing knowledge. Your goals would need to be realistic
with the aim of accomplishing them in smaller stages that have targets dates of
when you set to out to achieve them by. In this way you would have taken
the time to establish specific time periods of fulfilling the components of
your vision.
Along with goal setting it is vital
to take into account your daily habits as this habit over time will have an
impact on the direction of your life. It is in your daily decisions and
habits that can be measured against your overall success. Poor habits can
prove to be detrimental over time whether physically, spiritually or from a
mental perspective. For instance, a continued daily lifestyle of harmful
drugs, lack of exercise, poor diet may see a person less healthy in the long
term thus you need to keep check on where your habits are leading you.
You can make a conscious decision to
keep track of your habits by either creating a written checklist in a small
notepad that can be ticked off as you carry out each habit. This method
is also widely used by a great deal of people via online facilities on the
Internet in which you can tick off your habits online and refer back to them at
any stage keeping you own personal online record.
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