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you toward the exciting career
transformation you’re ready for.
1
Diagnose Your Current Job
Reality
Explore what it is about your current
role that is leaving you less than
inspired. Take some quiet time to
work this out and make a “Keep/
Chuck List”. On one side write what
you love about your existing job and
the parts that you want to take with
you to your next role. On the other
side bullet point what’s NOT working
well for you, all the bits you’re more
than ready to leave behind.
2
Envision Your New Career
Move
This is the fun part. Become your
own scriptwriter and movie director,
and create the ideal job role for
yourself in your imagination. See it in
vibrant detail. Where are you? What
does your working environment look
like? Who is around you? What are
you wearing? What are you doing?
What is your job title? Are you alone
or part of a team? Which personal
and professional strengths do you
have the opportunity to deploy? Now
feel the emotional exhilaration of
being exactly were you want to be at
this stage in your career.
3
Identify Any Mindset
Barriers
As you imagine this new role for
yourself, you may notice a doubting
inner-voice that keeps popping up
with self-defeating negativity such
as: “It’ll be too hard to make this
happen for real”, “This will never
come to be”, “This would be too
good to be true” or “It’s just easier
to stay where I am”. Write these
limiting thoughts down, then for
each one work out the opposite more
productive thought. For example, “I
can do this. It’ll take some effort to
create the change but it’ll be worth
it”. Repeat the new thought patterns
over and over again until they soak in
as truth.
4
Create a Strategic Plan
So far so good: at this stage you
have clarity about what you want
as a career move and the positive,
productive mindset to make it
happen. What’s required now is an
action plan. List all the steps, large
or small, that you can begin to take
to bring your newly invented job role
into reality. Brain storm everything
possible, then number them in a
logical order that will help you move
smoothly from start to finish.
5
Enact & Become
And now…get started! Pick up
the phone to register a name for your
new business, call the recruitment
agency that will assist in helping
re-position you, or start an on-line
job search using the new criteria for
your ideal role. Feel the excitement,
exhilaration, self-satisfaction, sense
of freedom and validation as you
engage in your reinvention project.
Walk through your day as if you’re
already in the new role and feel your
mood lift!
Just knowing that life doesn’t
have to happen TO us, is powerful.
Understanding instead, that we’re
free to make new choices at any
time- that we’re living, breathing,
re-inventions, constantly waiting to
happen. FUN!
Muffy Churches is the author of Coach
Yourself, and is an internationally
renowned integrative success coach.
Born in the US and settled in Sydney, she
works as a corporate trainer, executive
coach, speaker, author, and counsellor.
She has extensive experience in
inspiring and initiating positive
behavioural change in clients around
the world. For more information visit
www.muffychurches.com or contact:
[email protected]
July 2016
ModernBusiness
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