A Smart Start to the Right Career – in Seconds

Don't pick a 'career'.

Pick a 'fight'.

What would you most like to fight and why?
What has annoyed, frustrated or challenged you for years above all else?
What's kept showing it's face to you, that you've always wanted to change, destroy, KO or conquer?
Who (or what) is the defending champion?
What would things be like once you've won the fight?
Who would pay you to win the fight?
Who would help you?

Perhaps that's what you should be earning a living doing?

My 10 challenges to you:

1. Determine your skills and strengths. Find your hardest 'punch' and lead with that.
2. Ensure that people will pay you to win this fight (and is it enough to live on? If not, pick another fight)
3. If you could build an army to help you, who would you recruit and why? Or is there an army out there you can join? Are they definitely fighting the same fight?
4. Who within the army would you be best placed to lead?
5. Where in the army would you be best placed?
6. How will you provoke the fight?
7. What will you do when the fight is on, and the defending champion (and the whole world) starts pushing back at you?
8. How will you win this fight? What's your strategy and tactics?
9. Don't be all talk. Roll your sleeves up, get on your feet and get on with it
10. You can do this one later: enjoy forever the pride you earned

You'll find securing work or employment in this area much easier, so long as you lead with your strengths and explain and prove your contribution to winning the fight. People will sense the fire in your belly, and they'll come to your aid (or get out your way). You'll enjoy a more rewarding living too.

Any questions you'd like to add to mine? Anyone got any ideas for an ideal career from this? Let us know in the comments below.

If you're still stuck anywhere in the process, checkout The Great Career Escape. It helps you through every stage. But it's not for wimps.

P.S. Who amongst those you know most needs this blog post? Who is crying out to put their career on track? Maybe you'd be happy to send it on to them?

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