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What Do You Want to Do with Your Career?

Whether you are currently unemployed or thinking about your next career step, learn the questions you need to be asking about your career before it is too late.

LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, WordPress, and Twitter are just a few examples of how technology offers you an ever-changing environment from which to promote what you want to achieve, create or become. Unfortunately, so many of us view technology as an obstacle rather than an asset. We can be quick to make assumptions about our ability to embrace the latest and greatest in technology tools.

For instance:

• I don’t have enough time to learn about the latest business technology. I barely have enough time to focus on my work.
• I’m not smart enough to use technology. Most of it just goes over my head.
• I’m too old to learn the latest in technology.
• I don’t want to embrace technology. It’s not for me.
• I don’t know where to go to learn.

Can you see that all of these statements are simply ideas that you have accepted as true? Yet are they really?

Today’s world is driven by technology. If you want to be among the winners, you need to embrace technology in your career:

1. Make the commitment. Put aside a short period of time each day to research and learn. Take this time away from activities that don’t benefit you.
2. Believe in your ability to learn. Today’s greatest technology tools are written for dummies.
3. Don’t use age as an excuse to give up on anything. Youth is just as much attitude as it is a number. It’s the attitude that keeps you marketable.
4. Acknowledge technology as your ladder to success. Can you really afford to do without it?
5. Recognize that help is available when you ask for it. From Google to your own network of contacts, you are always just keystrokes away from finding help.

Our newly designed website is an example of my efforts at embracing technology. It’s an integration of our static web pages and blog posts orchestrated with a $75 WordPress theme called WP Remix. Feel free to email me if you want to explore what it takes to do this yourself. Why pay someone else a lot more money that what you will spend learning to do it yourself?

I spent the most pleasant evening tonight with a wonderful group of women who gathered for the Flourish book club meeting to discuss my book, Inner Architect. Flourish is the vision of Anne Marie Engel, whose mission is to support women in navigating the challenges of balancing career and life.

Pursuing your passions in your work was a thread that weaved throughout our discussions. These accomplished, well-educated women shared their thoughts about leaving a secure, established career to pursue their passions. When you have built a level of success in a profession, letting go comes with its share of angst.

• What will other people think about my decision?
• How do I let go of being one role to move into another?
• How will I survive the early times of making a lot less money?

Having done so myself three years ago, I could relate to these questions they shared. Looking back now, I can see that the answers didn’t come until I took steps forward. And the good news is that dealing with these questions has been so much easier than I anticipated.

Lesson: We tend to give more power to our fears than they deserve.

Put your toe in the water. Take tiny steps towards the career you want and see what happens. Chances are the very things you worry about the most turn out to be more manageable that you would have thought possible.