Planing for Success | Plan where you want to go next

Draw a flow chart of your career and plan where you want to go next

You cannot decide what to deal with today unless you know where you want to be tomorrow. Any plan to improve your use of time depends on being clear about your goals.

Analyzing Your Goals

Long-term personal and professional goals are essential when it comes to setting overall targets. But in the short term a personal goal such as starting a family may take temporary precedence over long term aims such as running a business.

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Setting Goals - Break down long term plans in to weekly and daily action plans

Write down all your goals and then divide them into short and long term personal and professional. Consider whether your goals are realistic; while you cannot change your physical attributes you can learn new skills at any time. Think about which skills you need to acquire to achieve the goals you have set. As the traditional idea of one job for life disappears, you may have to update certain skills in order to remain employable and this means your professional goals can be richly varied. Finally, set a timetable- decide when you would like to achieve each of your goals.

Planning Career Goals

To help you achieve your goals it is important to make long and short term career plans that you can bear in mind as you plan your use of time from day to day. You may find it useful to write down your experience skills and qualifications. AS well as work you may have acquired valuable management experience from running the home or looking after siblings. Looking at these skills and experience list all the careers to which they would be relevant.

Draw a flow chart of your career, you may see example below