Has your career stalled? Don’t have a clear view of your future?
You could do your job in your sleep? Maybe you should develop a written
career plan with clearly set out goals. If you have a career plan, with a
focus of something to aim for, something to work for, a method to
measure progress you’ll discover a variety of positive results.

There
is one thing you must do before starting your journey. Write down your
career goals. It can’t be emphasized to much that your career goals must
be written. They must be measurable and reachable. Don’t try to jump
the Grand Canyon in one leap. Keep the career goals in a series of
smaller steps. If you plan on reading, for example, 120 books in the
next five years, that’s two a month. Make your objective in your career
plan to read two books a month. This is much easier to achieve and keep
score.

Don’t forget to add a fitness component to the career plan.
How is your fitness level? See your doctor and then get started. A
physically fit person, knows their increased concentration and endurance
will allow them to perform their job at a higher level. Don’t neglect
this aspect of your career plan.

Also, when you draft up your
career goals, concentrate on the top three to five objectives. Write
them on a card. Put a copy in your check book, on the visor in your car.
Write them out on your laptop or computer screen saver so every time
you turn on your computer you read the career goals.

Setting career goals can provide you with the following series of benefits all which will help you grow and grow your career.

1.
Career goals will give you a focus, a picture of where you want to be.
With this picture firmly set in your mind, you will find ways to move
toward your objective.

2. Making progress toward a goal can be a
big motivator. As you reach each milestone it provides you with the
motivation to keep going, to keep improving.

3. Success comes to those who set career goals. Once
you begin working toward a written goal you have set the picture of the
planned result in your mind and you will set aside the time and put
forth the effort to reach the goal.

4. Your confidence will
increase as each step in your career goal is reached. Building on this
confidence will give you the effort required to work at and reach the
next in your career plan.

5. Each time we set a goal and reach it
we grow as a person. This allows us to build on our knowledge and
experience base to reach farther.

6. Reaching career and personal
goals will develop one of the most important attitudes that measure
success. As you become more confident, you will become more positive.
You view of the future will be more assured and this confident attitude
will attract more positive people to you and more positive things will
happen to you.

7. With one of your career goals to improve your
level of fitness, as you become more fit, your enjoyment of the world
around you will grow. Your ability, on occasion, to work longer hours
will not sap your endurance. You’ll be able to do things in your off
hours that will add spice to your life. You’ll have more balance in your
life and this will lead to even more interesting adventures.

So
the benefits of setting career goals are they give you a focus, they
generate motivation, they develop success, they increase confidence,
they allow you to grow as a person, they build a positive attitude and
they bring a balance and enjoyment into your life.

Now is the best
time to start your career planning. With written career goals you too
will begin experiencing these seven important life long benefits.