Holidays are a great time of year for lots of reasons.
If you are about to go off on holiday I’m sure you are counting the days until you get away. Time off from the routine of normal life gives us the opportunity for space and reflection.
It’s also a great time to think about the future. I read a piece of research once that most people make major changes to their life…eg divorce, new job, house moves etc after they come back from a break or holiday. The reasoning behind this was that at any other time we are just too busy to find the space and the time to think about what we need to do to make these changes.
Time away gives us that space to think things through so we are ready to take action when we return.
So if you are going to use your holiday to reflect back on your job and think about where your career is going, here are some questions you might want to ask yourself to aid that process…
• What do you really enjoy about your job?
• If you had your dream job, what would you be doing?
• What are the not so good bits of the job you have?
• Is there anyway you can minimise or reduce these elements?
• Looking back over the whole of your career what has been the best thing you have done?
• What changes do you want to make in the next year?
• If we could push you forward in time to 2012 where would you like to be, and what would you like to be doing?
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