Why is now the right time to invest in your career?
It is well-known by everyone that your career is an important aspect of your life. Shaping it the way you want it to be and investing in it is always a return-investment and will bring you positive results in the long run. It takes a lot of people years to realize that their career is not fit for them; they realize far too late that they should’ve invested in their careers, gone to those workshops, learned those new skills, taken up that opportunity they let go.
Today, we have the largest resource, right at our fingertips- the Internet to get us everything we need. One quick search and you can find endless opportunities waiting for you to take them up. We have more people than ever before starting up their own companies, climbing up the ladders of their growth.
I’ve seen a 300% increase in consulting and advice in January as many people pick up the new year to make the change. What I’m so excited about is that women, now more than ever, don’t want to settle for anything less than pursuing what they love to do, figuring out what suits them and taking the leaps to achieve them. Whether you want to work for a company you’re a fan of, or the values align with you, or whether you’re a young mom and want to build a business around your schedule or whether you’re loving working from home 🙋♀️ so that you can be closer to your family and have more flexibility- nothing is more important than taking the advancement to investing in your career.
Here are four reasons why you need to start focusing on you and invest in your career:
Life is too short to live with regrets: Living with regrets is the worst thing you can do to yourself. Instead of always wondering about the what-ifs, take the leap. If you fail, it’ll only become a learning experience and if you succeed- you’re already doing something you love.
Your life should be based on your goals, not the other way round: Your goals should be something that leads you to live a life you always wanted to live. It shouldn’t be the other way round. Once you start prioritizing your milestones exactly the way you want them, you’ll be shaping your career in the field you’re passionate about.
Being Valuable: Taking up risks and adventuring (and finding success in them) is something that shows that you’re up for the challenge. This makes you and your time valuable- leading you to be your own boss.
You can only count on you: In times of trouble… you can only count on you to make the best out of a situation. After living a life and never having explored, you end up regretting and blaming yourself for every opportunity you didn’t take. Which is why, for every risk you grab, know that you are doing this for you because you only have you at the end of the day.
Right now with the volatile situation with COVID, nothing is for certain, but what is for certain is ourselves, our ability and our skill sets. Now is definitely the right time to invest in your career and be your own boss by making sure you have a backup plan A, B, C for your entire career and you’re not going to get there by working in silo. You need to be in a community, work with advisors and build your personal advisory board. Take up the risk and see where it leads you.
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