{"id":5868,"date":"2008-10-03T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T21:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/your-career-annual-check-up-it-is-time\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T21:13:50","slug":"your-career-annual-check-up-it-is-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=5868","title":{"rendered":"Your Career Annual Check Up: It Is Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Anne Angerman<\/div>\n

I’ve learned as a professional career coach that a lot of people don’t consider their career plans as often as they should. Why not take a few minutes to gain some perspective and look back on the past year on what you’ve accomplished and learned? Provided that you look at the big picture, conducting an annual personal career review is a wonderful career coaching exercise. Your annual career check-up should include the creation of a plan for next year and it should also touch on issues close to you and how you really want to live your life.<\/p>\n

During your personal annual career review, ask yourself eight questions: <\/p>\n

1. How have I been with my job? Happy?<\/p>\n

2. How happy have I been with my personal life?<\/p>\n

3. How happy have I been with what I do for myself?<\/p>\n

4. Did I do something that expresses my most strongly held values regularly?<\/p>\n

5. What is one thing I would change about my job if I could?<\/p>\n

6. What do I wish was there that I left out of my life?<\/p>\n

7. I admire a person whose life is?<\/p>\n

8. For the next year, what should your game plan of your career look like?<\/p>\n

A positive end has a good goal. It should be something you want, not something you think you should do or hate. One of those goals that sounds nice is “I am going to exercise more.” But this will end up on the back shelf undoubtedly. Instead, set goals like: “I will walk for 30 minutes three times a week. I am going to find exercise of some kind that I enjoy.”<\/p>\n

You should find a good strategy. Move toward something enjoyable, fulfilling, productive, and rewarding. What in your life do you find especially fulfilling? What that you do makes you lose all sense of time? In your life, increase what you have found meaningful for a significant positive benefit for you, and for the people around you.<\/p>\n

Finding a good strategy should move you away from unproductive, unfulfilling, meaningless or unrewarding things and people. What in your day do you hate doing? What feels like a waste of your time? Who on the phone do you not enjoy talking with? If you decrease what you find unrewarding in your life, you will learn to give yourself a sense of internal control over what happens to you.<\/p>\n

While you “can” make your goals a reality and lead the life you desire, change is difficult. Take baby steps toward your goals, and remember, don’t hesitate to contact a professional career coach for guidance and support. A smart investment is to hire a career coach. We can work with you, help you achieve your goals and decide what is most important.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Author Anne Angerman, a Denver Boulder career coach<\/a>, has an extensive career in professional development. Anne founded her own career coaching and development service<\/a> in 1998, and she is available for career coaching services nationwide.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve learned as a professional career coach that a lot of people don’t consider their career plans as often as they should. Why not take a few minutes to gain some perspective and look back on the past year on what you’ve accomplished and learned? Provided that you look at the big picture, conducting an annual personal career review is a wonderful career coaching exercise. Your annual career check-up should include the creation of a plan for next year and it should also touch on issues close to you and how you really want to live your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-careers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}