Habits are the building blocks of your day-to-day life experience. You can work on creating positive habits that contribute to your success. Or you can leave it to chance and let habits take over our lives, more often than not, leaving you feeling bad about yourself.
We are experiencing a massive upheaval right now. Not only are too many of us losing loved ones to COVID-19, but a lot of us are changing on the fly how we approach our work. And that is assuming that you still have a job!
The purpose of this post is to advise you, the reader, to be willing to be a mentor or to seek a mentor depending on where you happen to be in your life right now. And it is quite possible, that you could be both a mentor and a mentee. We never stop learning, after all. Depending on where we are in our career, there are things even seasoned professionals can learn from mentors.
It’s time to improve your career in 2020. After all, we are not only starting a new year in 2020. We are also embarking upon a brand new decade! There is no better time than right now to take stock of your life goals.
When you start with the question, “What am I qualified to do?” you immediately box yourself into a corner. Without realizing it, you block out all the various possibilities that you may have if you are flexible.
I contend that the question you should start with is not what are you qualified to do, but what do you want to do? If you could have, be, or do anything in the world, what would that be? Forget the practicalities and worries about the “how” for a moment. What do you want to do with your life?
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