2018 is just around the corner and it’s time to create your ideal life!

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

Change is constant, just like new years. It happens all around us every day and embracing it is the key to your success.

Valuable lessons can be learned from change or adversity, if we look for them with open minds. Winston Churchill said: “A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty”.

Eastern thinkers believe everything in life is impermanent. Everything exists for a finite time frame. When we accept the fact that nothing lasts forever, we’re equipped to manage changes and uncertainties. We should enjoy good times, and remember that challenging times are temporary.

Since change will occur in most aspects of our lives, we can learn to respond to change with positive anticipation, believing change facilitates growth and brings new opportunities.

Create a Master Plan for Success and Your Ideal Life

Take responsibility for your career.

Create new opportunities with your current or another employer. Consider time out, full or part-time study, travel or self employment.

View career growth as a lifelong process of personal and professional development – a continuing quest to maintain harmony between who you are and what you do.

Identify and pursue your purpose.

Your purpose is your compass which will guide you through chaos. When you’re in touch with the real you and live out who you believe you are, you’ll have you a sense of direction, inner peace and satisfaction.

Identify personal and transferable skills.

These enable you to perform in varied situations. Employers value adaptive skills like openness to ideas, persistence, critical evaluation, enthusiasm, helpfulness, patience, optimism and tolerance.

Strengthen “meta skills.”

These skills for tomorrow can’t be easily automated. They include problem solving, decision making, learning, research, judgment, inspiration, relationship building, performance management, ethical leadership, mental training, and emotional intelligence.  Continuously update technical and professional skills.

Enhance “Quester qualities.”

Cultivate and use intuition, continue to learn, use mind power, develop the will to risk, think critically, strengthen creativity, and bolster communication and interpersonal skills.

Expand horizons.

Go beyond borders. Prepare for and welcome the unexpected.  Innovate, adapt, explore, seize opportunities. Nothing is beyond reach!

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” – Aldous Huxley