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This is the 3rd in my series of videos about changing careers focused on helping you identify what you want.
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This will continue the various steps I teach in order to evolve. Again, take out your iPad, pen and paper, whatever you like to write with and save , and get to a place where you have no distractions.
This 1 is a difficult exercise.
The question I’m going to ask you to think and write about is, “What’s going to be important to you in your next career? What will you need to see or hear in order to believe it is a good choice for you?”
Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
Usually, however, people define things by what they don’t want to do. They look at their current work and start thinking about the list of, “No’s” that come from the current work. By that I mean, “I don’t want to do this,” or, “I don’t want to do that.”
I will use myself as an example. After many years of doing recruiting, I have moved into coaching and 1 of the things I didn’t like about recruiting was the amount of multitasking (there’s multitasking in every profession but in recruiting, is obscenely heavy multitasking) with constant interruptions. I became frustrated by that. So I start the think of things that would have less multitasking and fewer interruptions. You are going to have your list of items that you are not going to want to do.
I want you to pause now and start working on your list.
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