The clearer you are on what is your mission in life, the easier it will be to get yourself organised for success. This Mark Twain quote sums up the challenge we all face with wonderful simplicity.
I do feel for my granddaughters, having to make up their minds at 16 as to what they want to do with their lives. I cast my mind back to when I was that age (that's a long time back :-)) and I was heavily influenced by my family being accountants. As a teenager I earned holiday money adding up columns of figures on an old fashioned adding machine working in the family business. So, guess what, I became an article clerk at Deloittes and qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant (how imaginative). In my actual career, although I have never regretted training as an accountant, I have done everything to avoid being an accountant!
What I discovered as I progressed in my career, was that I really enjoyed training and coaching people. As I rose up through the ranks I realised my natural default leadership style was as a coach. I think it was in my mid thirties that I finally discovered why I had been born. I had stumbled on my reason for being and that was to release the magic in others. This realisation really shaped the last years of my corporate career and resulted in me setting up my coaching business Release the Magic which I ran for 10 years after I had retired from Nestlé.
My advice to my young granddaughters, is that choosing a career is a process, and it’s okay to take time to work things out. But, stay positive and keep exploring different options until you find something that feels right for you.
- What do you enjoy doing?
- What are you passionate about?
- What are your strengths?
- What are your struggles?
- What are the values that you want to live by?
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