Career Change Advice| For Success:Engage Your Past & Your Future!

This is the final part of a three part series on Career Change Advice that leads to Success. If you have not read about the lies surrounding career success or how self-education leads to a fortune, be sure to read those as well.  Today, I give the formula for present success by engaging your past and your future.

Have you ever heard a song on the radio that reminded you of your first kiss, first victory, first anything? Have you ever wondered HOW you were able to transport yourself to that time and place. The memory becomes  so alive in your imagination. You immediately feel the exact feelings you felt at that particular event. Then the song stops. The mood changes and you scramble to hold on to the pleasant emotional state you’re in. But it’s gone!

Did you know you can do that on demand whenever you’re afraid of trying something new? You see career change scares the bravest because they tried to change once and they failed. The magnitude of  “what-ifs” accompany the inspired thoughts and images of what your life could (and should) look like. So how do you combat those feelings of  “I’m not smart enough” or  “I’m not good enough”? How do you create an emotional state that gives you the boost to reach for your freedom?

Make A List (and check it often)

Anthony Robbins believes “the surest way to create a belief that you can do something is to do it once, just once”. I have to agree with that. So if you’re struggling with the thoughts of inadequacy or wondering if you can really make money doing what you love, make a list of every time you’ve been successful.

Don’t censor the list. Jack Canfield says that everyone should start their success list with “learned to ride a bike”. That’s a huge accomplishment considering I don’t know how to ride a bike. So if you can do that I’m impressed. Go ahead make a list of every thing you’ve accomplished. Even graduating high school. Not everyone has done that either.

Review this list often. As often as possible until you believe that you can be successful at whatever you decide to do on your new career path.

Make a new vision for your life.

FOCUS = Clarity

What does success look like to you? If you followed your natural passions, interests, skills and talents and did what brought you the most fulfillment, what would that look like? Go ahead imagine it and describe in detail what it looks like. Here are some questions to get you going?

1. Who are you working with?
2. Where are you working?
3. What are you doing?
4. How do you feel?
5. How has doing this improved your health, relationships and financial well-being?

If you take the time to clarify what you want, and believe with passion and certainty that you can have it then its yours. If you can turn on the radio and be transported to a time and place that occurred and relive the experience then you can “re-live” the future. You work towards your future. Life does not just happen. You are either moving forward or backward but you are moving. So choose to move forward.

I can’t train you to have vision. It’s your vision and only you can see it. But when you do see it clearly, it is because the tools, strategies, resources and people will be made available to you to achieve it. Continue to engage these powerful events in your mind (past success and future expectations) and you will take action to have what you believe you can have. What are some of the beliefs you have about what’s possible for your career change? Feel free to leave your comments or questions. I’ll be sure to create a new post for you to answer them.

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This post was written by Charlene Nora your Career Change Mentor on 7/7/2010. Clarify, Crystallize, Prepare and Profit.