Career Windows Online

Each day of unemployment or underemployment can be an opportunity to make significant progress in your job search or career transition. Perhaps you are hesitant to make contacts with people you don’t know.  Yet, we all know that networking online and in person is the main way that people succeed in reaching their career goals.  Perhaps you don’t know or have the time to maintain your contacts.  Yet, developing a relationship with your contacts  produces champions for your candidacy for a new job, career, or opportunity for advancement.

Unemployment can lead to overwhelm. You may have lists upon lists of what you need to do.  Wouldn’t is be cool if each day you could look back and say to yourself, I did the following and it feels really good?  Would it seem less overwhelming if you could see progress every day?   Of course it would.

So, where to start? Try breaking those endless lists into small pieces.  Only include those action items that you think you can do in one day.  If you can’t accomplish everything you had planned on your list today, ask yourself why.  It may be something that is no longer important or it may be the action that you dread the most.  If it’s no longer relevant, drop it off of your list.  If it’s important but your dread is holding you back, try prioritizing the day’s list to make sure the most important items are addressed.

Breaking your list into smaller bites will document your progress and target you next actions.  If something like family obligations prevents you from accomplishing your goals for today, move them to tomorrow.  You don’t have to beat yourself up for not accomplishing every goal on your daily list, just move them to your next day’s action items.   This way you will keep up your spirits and momentum and make meaningful progress each and every day.

You only have a limited time on this earth, so what are you going to do today to move you closer to your goals?

Opening Windows to Your Career Success,

Dumont

Dumont Gerken Owen, Ph.D.

Certified Career Management Coach

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