Today's competency addresses whether or not you know what you want to do during the next 10 years. 10 years, you ask??? How old will you be? How will you define yourself and will you have accomplished your goals?
If it seems to you that 10 years is WAAY too far into the future to plan, well, in a way it is. It does, however, present you with a unique challenge----and that challenge is the essence of your career management strategy: how DO you want to shape your next 10 years, or is it OK with you for someone else to define it for you? As someone once said, "if you don't know where you're going, any path will take you there." Any path, anyone, anything that you just fall into will shape your future - and that, my friends might just not work for you.
So, as you visualize your next ten years, who will be in the driver's seat of your life? How will you define success? What will you be doing? How satisfied will you be with your life?
If 10 years seems like a lifetime, break your goals and plans and action steps down into a 3-5 year time span, or even in one-year increments. Don't let life just happen to you.
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