Your Blueprint For Making A Career Change
Do you know where you're headed? When making a career change, it's important to have a sense of direction. The first step toward a meaningful career change is to know what matters most to you and then design a road map for the journey ahead.
When you're clear about your life purpose, vision, and mission, you'll be able to set goals that are in alignment with your deepest values and beliefs. But your goals are of no use unless you commit yourself to them. Let them become your blueprint not only when making a career change, but for all of your life.
Discover Your Life Purpose
Your life purpose is your reason for being. It's what you're here to do. You might experience your life purpose as a calling or a sense of vocation. However you discover it, an authentic life purpose connects you to something larger than yourself and is meant to benefit others in some way.
Discovering your life purpose will give you a sense of where you're headed and what you'll do in your work and life. It serves to guide you and keep you on course. Making a career change that honors your life purpose will allow you to unlock your potential.
Have A Vision
Here's where you dare to dream big. Your vision is how you want to be when you're living out your life purpose and your deeply held values. It's a clear, vivid picture of how things will look when you've fulfilled your mission. Your vision is what you will continually strive for, your ideal future outcome.
It's important for your personal vision statement to inspire and motivate you. At the same time, you want it to be possible and achievable. In career coaching, you use your vision as a touchstone, keeping it always in front of you.
Live Your Mission
Your mission is how you are choosing to live out your life purpose right now. Your mission is smaller than your purpose and more focused on the present than your vision. A good mission statement serves as your guide as you move forward on the path toward your vision.
When making a career change, remember that your mission is broader than just work. It encompasses all of who you are. Personal mission statements allow you to declare how you will express your unique gifts and make a contribution.
Set Goals
Are you clear about what your mission is? Then it's time to set some goals. This is the design phase of the career change process. Think of your goals as stepping stones. Each stone takes you closer to the vision you glimpse in the future. When you're making a career change, setting career goals helps you...
- decide what's important to you
- establish your priorities
- break the "big picture" into manageable steps
- focus your time and energy
- gain a sense of direction
Meaningful goals provide the action plan that can keep you motivated to live your mission and turn your vision into reality.
If you'd like to find out how career coaching can help you design your blueprint for change, contact me for more information.
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