Intentional Career

So, here you are, working through your daily tasks, balancing e-mail, files, meetings, phone calls, deadlines… You are trying to make a meaningful progress with your work. Over the months or years, you’ve been trying to perfect the routines to achieve the highest efficiency possible. You are a multitasking master, you know plenty of time [...]

You may wonder why all this fuss about career. You don’t want to build a “career”, you want to go to work every day, do your hours, get paid and enjoy the other aspects of your life. Job is just a job! Well, nothing wrong with that, really. If this is what’s working for you, [...]

Once I attended a networking event for new employees. As we were practicing speed networking skills, one question always came up. “So, what do you want to be in couple of years?” I was surprised how many of the newly graduated and eager to achieve youngsters responded that they would like to grow into a [...]

If you’ve ever worked for any company, you’ve probably had one of those career development talks with your manager. It’s great if a company that you work for cares about your development and not just about your deliverables. You should definitely appreciate it. However, the career development within a company is, of course, focused on [...]

In order to get what we want, we first need to know what it is that we want and then try to get it. And that’s what I call an intention. If you don’t want to wake up one day and wonder why you are who you are and why you spend your days doing something you would never pick for yourself, then you have to have a vision, and you have to intentionally make your strategy to get to what you want.