The 5-Step Guide to Making Objective Career Decisions to Achieve Your Vision of Success

Overcoming career indecision

We want to have a sense of meaning and direction in life, including the ability to fulfil our vision of success.?

But creating career transformation can be daunting.

Sometimes it’s just simply hard to make a decision about which career path is the best.

Career opportunities seem out of reach and you feel uncomfortable taking on new challenges and responsibilities.

Many people struggle to stay out of overwhelm or procrastination, which makes it challenging for them to decide on a career path that aligns with the true you.

To help you avoid being attached to an imposter syndrome, or whatever the strategy that might be keeping you stuck…

It’s important to start from what you know and grow from there.

Start from what you know and grow from there

Start exploring what's within or near your comfort zone before you start stretching your mind beyond this.?

Take a look at what you know which is within your comfort zone and then step out of that and into areas where you can grow before you even go beyond that into the blue sky thinking about what could really be possible for you in your future career.

From there, you can start identifying what your first step or role might be as an employee toward this vision of success.

Or what your first service or product offering is if you've taken the journey as an entrepreneur.

Remember, you don’t have to get it all figured out in your first run to turn your dream career into reality.

Knowing this gives you high levels of certainty that you are sending yourself on the path to achieving alignment in your vision of success.?

It’s decision time! Assess your options and choose your career path

1. Identify career variables that are important to you?

List variables relevant to your past and present career, and your future aspirations. This can include the industry, discipline, speciality, contribution within the organisation, contribution within the supply chain, and delivery platform. From here, you can now generate your career options.

List career options by changing out variables to see what could be possible for you. Forget about job titles or how many steps it may take to get there at this stage and just add as many options to the list as you can.??

1. Assess your career options using your decision criteria.

Consider and rate each option against your prioritised decision criteria list using a 1-10 rating scale, with 1 = ZERO match to your criteria up to 10 = Complete match to your criteria.

Your decision criteria can consist of your non-negotiables such as the alignment to your vision, values, eDISC energy, financial rewards, purpose, core needs and happiness.?

1. Choose your preferred path.

Review the rating scores and choose your preferred pathway and CELEBRATE your decision ??

1. Conduct an alignment check.

Sense check your preferred selection. Ask yourself…

• How do you feel about this choice?
• What do you think is possible for you?
• What do you think may stop you from achieving this?
• What do you need to believe for this to be possible?
• What mindset limitations will you need to let go of to create this version of success?

Focus on your top 3 Career Options and give them a High, Medium or Low Alignment rating.

5. Assess the gaps in your chosen path

Now is the time to assess where you are now compared to how you would success look like in your chosen pathway.??

• What competencies do you need to develop?
• What qualifications need to be acquired?
• What resources need to be secured?
• What support needs to be enrolled?
• What other things need to be done to bring you success?