Gaining Career Confidence

Career confidence : So how do you build your career confidence? Building confidence takes action. Taking action means taking risk. Tacking risk is scary. Taking risks is also the only way to progress.

We can think about our continuing professional development until the cows come home, but nothing will happen. We can talk about our continuing professional development until the next herd heads our way, but still little will happen. It is when we identity what we want and we actually DO something that will contribute to it, that all things line up in support of our endeavours.

Unless you take action, you will never know what will or will not work. If you don’t discover what didn’t work then you can waste a lot of mental energy and time! Exploring the mental labyrinth is way safer than taking action, but, nothing will happen. It is also a hell of a waste of a professional life. If you do not take action then you will never work out what DOES work and that really is a waste of your professional Development!

I get it: it’s scary. I get it: there are all sorts of things at risk. I get it: it might not work. I get it: you will disrupt all you have built thus far…. but, would you regret it if when you looked back you hadn’t tried it? I can highly recommend reading ‘Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway“.

It’s always a series of small steps. Feel free to vision ‘it’ as big as you can. Then stop. Break it down into smaller goals and smaller steps and into tiny curiosities until you know what the next task will be. Check that this at least one of the next three tasks involves another human. As precious and vulnerable as our new dreams are, and as much protection as they need, none of us can make our new-things real in isolation.

We need to share ideas. We need to take steps with people, we need ‘expert opinions‘ (and we can also disregard them if they don’t serve us!), we need to consult with those who have trodden this ‘shul’ before us… we can refine who we share these things with as we progress. Even avoiding obvious dangers, there may be done disappointments in people. We cannot do it alone.  Ideas in isolation are entirely redundant. Ideas in action make stuff happen. If you want results, you will eventually have to head off down the slopes. You cannot plan for every eventuality so why wait?

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