We have previously discussed what the Career Plan is, how it is done, its importance, our responsibility to seek help to create it, and its four stages over time. Today we discuss how the Professional Career Plan should be flexible according to our priorities, and the need to update it every time we decide to put more emphasis on other areas of our life.
As I told you in my article Create your personal and professional career plan, to be the protagonist of your professional life, you must redefine your Professional Career Plan from time to time, regardless of whether the conclusion is to continue in the same company, go to another, create your own, or reinvent your company.
If you have decided to prioritize your career at this time
When you want to have a successful professional career, and you are willing to put your energy into it, it is necessary to be very clear about what you want to achieve, what steps you need to take for it, what time frames you will use in each stage, and what strategies you will follow to achieve it.
All this forms your Professional Career Plan, which will help you take steps "in a straight line" and not lurching like we usually do, which delay us or even prevent us from reaching our goal. They will also help us to reach the goal enjoying it, because we know what we want and how to achieve it. This is one of the main areas in which a professional coach can help you.
If you have decided to prioritize other things at this time
You are always within your right to decide when and how to boost your career, or prioritize other things. It may be studying, spending time raising your children, taking care of a relative, etc. In any case, if it is a thoughtful decision that you feel good about, you will have been right.
The crux of the matter is not to drift, and this can only be achieved by having a good Professional Career Plan, which needs to be adjusted every time you decide to put more emphasis on an area of your life and this affects the deadlines of your Professional Career Plan. Let yourself be carried away by your intuition rather than your mind when making decisions. The mind will add fears and reasons to stay as you are. Your intuition will give you the information of what you really need.
In life there is time for everything, and a moment for everything. Only you will know when it is time to boost your professional career, and when it is time to work without waiting for promotions or great learning, because you prefer to focus on something other than work. In any case, have your Professional Career Plan prepared and adjust it according to the circumstances that demand your time.
“Whichever direction you decide, there is always someone who will tell you that you are wrong. Difficulties always appear that tempt you to believe that your critics are right. Charting a course of action and following it to the end requires courage » Ralph Waldo Emerson
