Planning Your Career and Your Life

This course provides a roadmap for anyone trying to solve the interrelated challenges of career and life planning.

Introduction

• How you drift through life

1. What Kind of Life?

• The six career options
• Which option is best for you?
• The meaning of life
• Stress spiral: Don't overdo, either achieve or enjoy
• Wrap up

2. Life Goals

• The importance of goals
• Enjoy and achieve, at home and at work
• My story: When I discovered goals
• How goals work
• My story: Types of careers
• Non-attachment to goals
• Money last
• Wrap up

3. The Ideal Job

• Is there an ideal job for everyone?
• Risk of redundancy
• Restless search
• Is it okay to be content?

4. Self-Employment

• Self-employment
• Pros and cons of self-employment
• How to get started
• Top tips for self employment

5. Which Job Would Be Best for Me?

• Which job would be best?
• The three circles
• What is a life purpose?
• How to find your life purpose
• Why computers can't help
• Which subject area: Analysis
• Which subject area: People
• If you can't get the job you want
• Wrap up

6. If You're Unhappy Where You Are

• If you're unhappy where you are
• It's okay to want to move
• Should you settle for a job that's safe and easy?
• Should you take that risky option?
• The signs of being in the wrong place
• Self development is always important
• My story: The effect of bad bosses
• Wrap up

7. Ways to Move

• Ways to move
• Maximize your contacts
• How valuable are qualifications?
• Mastermind groups
• Opportunities within your current organization

8. Success Factors

• What makes a person successful in their job?
• Six success factors for your career
• The inputs and outputs of success
• The efficient greyhound
• The ambitious mountain goat
• The plodding tortoise
• The dreaming koala
• The fun-loving kangaroo
• The achieving eagle
• Why there are only six possibilities
• Development plans for each animal

Conclusion

• Summing up