"3 Simple Steps to Get Your Career Momentum Back"
Posted on December 11, 2013 by Brenda Cody, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.
This article includes a story about how 1 person lost their career momentum & provides 3 simple steps to help you get your career momentum back.
In a recent episode of a cable sitcom, the main character quits his job in a muffler shop and he and his wife are having a conversation about their careers:
Wife: “I love being a nurse….I never think of it as work; it’s what I’ve always wanted to be since I was a little girl. What do you want?”
Husband: “What do you mean?”
Wife: “Do you have, like, a dream? I got to be a nurse, was there ever something that you wanted to do with your life that you never got a chance to do?”
Husband: “Well, yeah, I wanted to be a pilot.”
Wife: “Of airplanes?” (laughter)
Husband: “It just always seemed really cool to me – in high school I was really into it.”
Wife: “I didn’t know that! So why didn’t you ever do anything about it?”
Husband: “I did. I went to the Air Force recruiting center and they gave me some forms to take home, I just never filled them out.”
Wife: “Why not?”
Husband: “Well, I had to make a copy of my driver’s license and the copier at the library was broken and I kind of lost momentum after that”
Have you “kind of lost momentum”? Did you start a job right out of school and now you feel stuck doing it? Did your parents “suggest” a career path and you didn’t want to disappoint them? Or maybe you’ve bounced around from job to job with no real career direction.
You probably haven’t been derailed by something as minor as a copier being broken, but your result is probably the same – being in a job that doesn’t excite you and questioning in the back of your mind “I wonder what my life would be like if only I had ____________.” (You fill in the blank).
So whether you’re like the character in the story above: you know what you want to do and have just lost “momentum” or you have no idea what you want to do, but you know what you’re doing now isn’t it: It Isn’t Too Late!
So what do you do? There are really only 3 simple steps to get your momentum back:
• First, stop beating yourself up about the time you’ve wasted
• Second, make an agreement with yourself that you’re not going to waste any more time
• Third, get support!
That’s what Career 3D is all about! Custom support designed specifically for you and your situation. So what are you waiting for? Go find a working copier and let’s get your momentum back!
I hope you enjoyed this short article. I’m Brenda Cody and at Career3D I’m committed to your success! I look forward to supporting your job search and career journey!
Brenda Cody, M.S.
Brenda@Career3D.com
720.989.8743
www.Career3D.com
