Making changes in your professional life can keep you feeling challenged and fulfilled. These tips can help you create the career you’ve always wanted.
- Find your passion. If you are doing what you love, it won’t even feel like work.
- Make a plan and set goals. Your goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-based.
- Surround yourself with positive people. It’s true that you might fail, but you don’t need people telling you that. Supportive people will build your confidence and keep you moving forward.
- Start. Do one thing every day that moves you toward your goal, even if it only takes five minutes.
- Stop making excuses. Write down your usual excuses, then come up with ways to get around them.
- Do it for yourself. Permanent change will only come to you if you are doing it for the most important person: you!
- Be patient. Change doesn’t happen overnight, but small changes add up to big ones over time.
- Stay positive. If something bad happens, think of what good has come from that.
- Don’t try to be perfect. When you make a mistake, you learn more than when you do things right. Perfection teaches you nothing.
- Never give up. Many self-made millionaires have previously been bankrupt. Every problem can be overcome in some way.
