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1.8 Have a personal vision or mission

You don’t want your career to stand still; you want to be sure that what you do is relevant to moving you towards your longer term career goals. There are two elements you need to have in mind here.

What are your long-term career goals?

Most of us are simply grateful to have a decent job and a wage packet at the end of each week or month, but we also need to have a vision of where we want to be in the future. You may want to carve out a long-term career with your current employer or you may want to set up your own business in the future, but the most important thing is to know what you want out of life.

Visualize yourself at the age 50 or 60 years.

• How respected are you?

• Where do you live and work?

• What kind of family life do you have?

• What do you do for fun?

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” Lewis Carroll, English author

Deciding the answers to these questions will help you to define the type of job you work in today and next year in order to get to where you want to be. Many people find it really helpful to write out their vision, either like an essay or a series of bullet points.

What medium-term actions are relevant to achieving your long-term career goals?

You now have to ensure that everything you do is relevant to you in your current and next job. Especially if you are working at a junior level, assess each instruction to ensure that it is within the job description of your current job. You are assessed against your job description, so doing things that aren’t covered in your job description is like spending time asleep, unless…a task is clearly proving your ability to be promoted to the next job up! If you are working at a more senior level, ask yourself if you are getting all the right things done, or could you be prioritizing or delegating more efficiently? Are you genuinely working each day to achieve your long-term career goals?

Look at Secret 1.4 as well since it looks in more depth at the short-term aspect of your current job.

Write down your long-term career goals and what you need to do in the medium term to achieve them.