A Fresh Start for Your Career
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by Susan Bryant
A new year provides a sense of getting a free do-over, so you can try again and get it right. What do you need to do this year to find the kind of enjoyment or progress you want in your career? Joel Garfinkle, founder of Dream Job Coaching, a consulting firm specialising in personal fulfilment and professional transformation, offers these suggestions to make this year your best yet.
Determine Which Aspects of Your Job You Like
And then find a way to do more of whatever that is. When you are engrossed in a project you like, your workday will be energising rather than draining. You may also find that the tasks you enjoy are the same ones a co-worker or boss dislikes. Find out if you can work out a win-win situation.
Learn from the Best Around You
Who in your office seems to really enjoy -- and excel -- at their work? What can you learn from them? People who like coming to work radiate positiveness, and their spirit can be infectious. Let the energy rub off on you.
Determine Your Career Signature
If you had to write down one statement that would encompass who you are (or want to be) professionally and personally, what would it say? Take some time to clarify your unique signature and use this statement as a guiding force in pursuing what you want to do and whom you want to be.
Recognise What You Can and Cannot Control
Write down the things that stress you out at work. Circle the ones you have control over, and cross out the ones you don't. Vow to stop spending energy on the items you crossed out; redirect your energy on finding solutions to the problems you can impact.
