My Career or My Business - making a decision
During years or working with many individuals and businesses, we came to the conclusion that employees and business owners perform well and live well if they are able to reach a balanced choice of career. A career choice is a compelling decision, one that may have a great impact on the rest of your life. But it’s not only the career that needs consideration. Your self-fulfillment, happiness, your goals and your dreams should also be looked at as part of the decision making process. You may be forced into a change and looking for one but in any case you should be able to control the process and take charge of your life and your future.
Any career choice is influenced by many factors but trying to get to a simple way of looking at it, they can be placed into four categories
a) Personality b) Values / Traits c) Skills/experiences, and d) Goals/Dreams.
The key principle is trying to examine each of these four categories as part of the process, explore the factors in each and come up with a plan that would target the most appropriate combination of categories and ensure you choose the right career and not simply any career available.
If you are an entrepreneur and thinking about establishing a new business, the process applies to you too. If, for example, you are thinking about starting up a software company but in fact know very little about programming and hate to sit behind a screen for more than an hour as it makes you nervous and unhappy (the outdoor type) then you may end up with a business that does not fit your personality. These experiments cost a lot of people a lot of money, time and most importantly – heart aches.
See “Career 1” and “Career 2” as examples of choices made by individuals that are not fully balanced:
Any career choice is influenced by many factors but trying to get to a simple way of looking at it, they can be placed into four categories
a) Personality b) Values / Traits c) Skills/experiences, and d) Goals/Dreams.
The key principle is trying to examine each of these four categories as part of the process, explore the factors in each and come up with a plan that would target the most appropriate combination of categories and ensure you choose the right career and not simply any career available.
If you are an entrepreneur and thinking about establishing a new business, the process applies to you too. If, for example, you are thinking about starting up a software company but in fact know very little about programming and hate to sit behind a screen for more than an hour as it makes you nervous and unhappy (the outdoor type) then you may end up with a business that does not fit your personality. These experiments cost a lot of people a lot of money, time and most importantly – heart aches.
See “Career 1” and “Career 2” as examples of choices made by individuals that are not fully balanced:
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