At this time of the year, we’re all thinking about how we want the next twelve months to go. We often consider our goals and start formulating plans for what we want to achieve throughout the year. One area that you might want to dedicate some time to is your career.
In this blog post, we’re going to look at exactly why you might want to go all in on your career this year and exactly how to do it. Let’s take a look!
10 Reasons To Go All In On Your Career This Year
1. You Spend A Long Time Working
First of all, it’s important to recognize that a large portion of your life is often taken up with working. You often graduate at the age of 22 and head straight into your career – not retiring until your sixties (or older!). We also spend 40-80 hours a week working during that time.
So it’s safe to say that a large portion of our lives is spent working. This means we need to choose wisely when it comes to choosing exactly what we do.
2. You Deserve To Be Happy
Because of this, it’s important for you to realize that you deserve to be happy. We often think that a job is just there so that we can earn money and pay the bills. While we do need to do that, we don’t have to suffer for fifty-plus years as we do it!
As most of our time is taken up with working, why not enjoy it? Why can’t your career be an extension of your life? After all, you deserve to be happy so you should spend time focusing on your career to make sure it’s right.
3. Fulfilment Is Key
As a step on from this, it’s also key to remember that fulfillment is important. If we don’t feel fulfilled in our careers, we can get restless and resentful.
Not only do you want to feel valued, but you want to feel as if you’re enjoying what you’re doing. For this reason, your career should be rewarding. If it’s not, then this is a great reason to change that and go all in on things this year.
4. You’ll Get To Learn More
Another great benefit of turning your attention to your career this year is the ability to learn more. Maybe you’ve been feeling really stuck and bored in your career? If you’re not being challenged, it could be time for you to change that.
You may find that learning more and taking on more knowledge is just what you need. It could be through your own interests or doing further qualifications for your chosen career path.
5. You Can Develop New Skills
At the same time, you’ll find that you get to develop new skills as you learn and grow in your career. If you’re keen on advancing and doing more in your career, then expanding your skillset is paramount.
Leaning more, dedicating more time to research and development, and looking to progress and excel is key here.
6. You Can Pursue Your Passion
But that’s not all. If you know that you would rather go after something you’re incredibly passionate about and make a career out of it, this could be what you want to focus on this year.
If you’ve always loved health and fitness, why not consider training to become a qualified personal trainer with The Fitness Group this year? That way, you will be able to go to work every day doing what you love and help people to improve their health and fitness too. It could then go on to become a thriving business venture for you too!
7. Look At Going Back To School
Or maybe for you, the answer will be to go back to school. This can be for two reasons.
The first is to change direction and get a new degree in a different subject in order to begin in a new career, such as law or medicine. Or it could be advancing your current studies (or making a slight pivot) by going to graduate school. This could help you to advance and go all in on your career choices this year.
8. Consider A Side Hustle
If you know that you’ve wanted to start something new for a while, maybe you can actually look to build this alongside your career? It’s natural to have a passion for something outside of your main career – so maybe you want to do something with that?
Whether it’s blogging, creating products, crafting, or anything else, this could be something that starts to drive your career in the right direction.
9. Start Your Own Thing
Or, you could just dive on in and start your own thing from the beginning. Maybe you’ve even been side-hustling for a while now? When that’s the case, you might want to consider going all in on that and launching into entrepreneurship full-time this year.
Whether you look into funding or you want to bootstrap your way from the beginning, this could be all it takes for you to find career happiness going forward.
10. Build The Life You Really Want
As you start to go all in on your career, you’ll find that it allows you to start creating the life of your dreams.
From here, as you’re building your career, finding fulfillment in your work, enjoying yourself, and pursuing your passions, it should start to mean that you’re much happier in life. This is then going to allow you to start creating the life you really want overall!
Final Thoughts: Creating The Career Of Your Dreams This Year
Ultimately, the whole idea around going all in on your career this year is so that you can create the life of your dreams and build out a future you really want. It’s easy to find yourself on the wrong path or feel as if you’re changing as you get older.
After all, what you may have wanted to do in life as a teenager can be different when you’re in your thirties and forties. It’s all about doubling down on your career and seeing where it takes you.
Whether that means getting a promotion, going for a new job, or changing careers entirely, you should find that going all in on your career this year is incredibly fulfilling.
Thanks for stopping by!
Magda
xoxo