Career Coaching Tips
If I were to share the most powerful career coaching tips, it would be these two:
FIRSTLY, value what you already have. And SECONDLY, quit trying to work this stuff alone.
“How can we expect what we bring to be valued when we fail to value it ourselves?”
Valuing what you already have Makes You Potent – FACT. — When you embrace and embody all that you have experienced, learned, and gained in the previous decades of your career, you will know what you bring to your future professional path.
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None of the past has been wasted. Especially the bits you didn’t like. These have tremendous value because they are the bits you can choose to avoid in the future.
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If you fail to pause and reflect on what didn’t work, you risk repeating the same lessons over and over. Surely, life is better when we focus on growing the things that did work. Take time to reflect, and you can pick all of those up to take to your future, choosing what to leave behind.
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Just take a moment to breathe into all those skills, personal attributes, and knowledge that you have accrued, all waiting to be scooped up and placed where you wish.
Career Coaching Tips
And when I say, “Don’t try and do all this alone,” I am not demanding that you hire a career coach. What I am suggesting is that you cannot see who you really are from the inside.
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Make sure you solicit the opinions of those who hold you in kind heart and whom you respect. Be brave, and ask what these people think of you as a professional and what work you have already contributed to the world.
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Voice memo their answers so that you can revisit them. We are deeply immersed in a culture that still reminds us that “pride comes before a fall” and that “it’s arrogant to boast”, and thus, it can feel dangerous to do these things.
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And YET — if we do not take ownership of who and how we are, how can we bring our best selves to work?
How can we expect what we bring to be valued when we fail to value it ourselves?
So, those are my two most potent career coaching tips.
If you need a little help capitalising on them. You can find me.