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Having a long-term vision for your career gives you focus. It helps you to come up with short term goals and plan your longer term career as well as respond positively to opportunities that come your way.

A study in the 1970s in America asked students about their future goals. Only a tiny percentage had a vision of their future over the coming years and an even smaller percentage had written their goals down. Years later the researchers returned and discovered that those students who had written down their goals had achieved more material and career success than all the other students put together.

Goals start with a big vision. What are the things you want to do, be and have in your career? Let your mind roam free and brainstorm some ideas.

one minute wonder Look to the past for clues to the future. Come up with three to five times in your life when you felt totally successful. Write them down. Describe what you did that made you succeed and what made you feel successful. What could you add into your vision?

“The future you see is the future you get”

Robert G Allen, author of One Minute Millionnaire

• Do a ‘brain dump’. Write down all the job options you have ever considered. Now rank them in order of desirability.

• Think about the skills and knowledge you enjoy using. What industries and jobs use these?

• Create your ideal day. Who would be involved? What would you do? How would it begin? Where would you go?

• Design your perfect environment. Where would you be? What people would you have around you?

• Consider lesses and mores. What could you do in future to create less of what you don’t want and more of what you do want in your life?

Spend time doing this and ideas start to flow. Think way out into the future. Where do you want to be in your career 20 years from now or 30 years from now?

Don’t censor yourself when you first want to do this. Think about all the things you would be proud to achieve in your career. The only limitations are ones you’ve created in your mind. Ok, you can’t be an Olympic champion diver at 80 probably, but many other visions are feasible and therefore potentially achievable.

Give yourself a vision and it will provide a focus point for you to guide your whole career.