10 Steps to Choose the Right Career

1. Identify how you feel right now – Think about the circumstances that have brought you to this point of choice. If you feel worry or maybe confusion, let it go for the time being and move to step two. Keep moving.

2. Identify your absolute best outcome…BE HONEST…This is not: “I want to work for myself, but I won’t be able to meet my bills.” This is: “I want to work for myself. I will need to find a way to make my bill payments.”

3. What are all of your options / choices? Ask others for additional support and options, separate fact from fiction- push yourself – come up with ten – prioritize according to what is important and valuable to you.

4. Test each option / choice against your values and personal freedom definition – stay focused. Test each remaining option / choice against your absolute best outcome. Which choices are in alignment? Which ones are not?? Eliminate the ones that are not.

5. Let go…give yourself space while looking for signposts. Take time to notice what the universe puts in front of you. Vijay had a tough choice, he could go to the United States during WWII and continue teaching or he could stay and help his parents. He struggled for some time with this choice. One day he went to his parents house and on the table there was a piece of a tablet from temple that had been destroyed. Vijay asked his father what the tablet was and was told that it was one of the ten commandments. Vijay then asked his father which one and his father said, “Honor they mother and they Father.” Vijay chose to stay and help his parents.

6. Make your choice. Ask yourself, what would it cost you if you did not follow through on this choice? Identify how you feel about your choice.

7. Accept full responsibility for your choice – Don’t spend energy on, “I wish I had”. There is no going back, only going forward by continuing to make choices.

8. Break through fear to deliver your choice – If your choice has an impact on someone else, deliver your choice with compassion.

9. Let go and learn from your choices, know that you have made the best choice you could at

this time.

10. Re-evaluate how you feel now that you have made your choice you should feel

empowered, if not, go back and evaluate your other options.

Give it a try and see how you do!