Questions you should ask yourself when you’re not sure what you want to do with your life…

The most popular area that my clients want to work on with me is “I don’t know what I want to do with my life”.

My conclusion is that people do know what they want to do with their life, but it can often be buried so deep that it takes some time, effort and lots of questions for it to come to the surface. I have found that my clients will spend longer deciding what to have for lunch than spending time thinking about themselves and what they really want out of life.

Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it.

I have a list of questions I ask my clients when they don’t know what to do with their life. If you are in this situation then it is important that you take some quiet time to think through and write down the answers to all of these questions. The whole idea is that they make you think about, consider and investigate options that you may not have thought about before.

Now, go somewhere quiet with a pen and paper, with no distractions and start thinking about you, your life and what you really really want.

If you don’t know what you want to do with your life, STOP and allow yourself some time to ponder this very important question

Questions:

1) Write down your career history to date. For each of yours jobs, write down what you liked and what didn’t you like. This helps you to distinguish between what you want and what you don’t want.

2) Name your three key strengths.

3) Would you like to work for yourself or would you like to work for someone else?

4) Name three people whose career you like the look of (friends, family, famous people, youtube stars)?

5) What would your perfect job look like – travel, in the City, working from home, working with friends, flexible hours, working on your own etc?

6) What do your friends and family think you would be good at (if you don’t know, ask three family members and three friends)?

7) What did you want to be when you were younger?

8) What do you enjoy doing?

9) What have you always wanted to do?

10) Name three potential career options?

Remember that you can make a living out of anything you want to – Oprah’s has made a living out of talking to people and her net worth is almost $3 billion, Ellen De Generes makes a living out of making people laugh, actors make a living by pretending to be someone else. There are plenty of options out there, you just have to concentrate on what you want.

 

What Should You Do Next

Caroline Wellingham is an accredited career and life coach and a certified NLP Practitioner. She loves encouraging, motivating and inspiring clients to achieve their career goals and ambitions. If you want to become passionate about your career and you think you could benefit from a career change coach then book in for a free 45 minute consultation: https://calendly.com/raisethebarlife/45-minute-coaching-session

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