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Formulating a plan for your career, whether it be a long-term goal of becoming CEO of Disney, or a short-term plan for convincing your boss why it makes sense to pay you more, is essential. Without a plan of action, you’ll simply drift through your career, never making much impact or aiming for anything.
Yet, a plan is just one half of the equation. It’s essential that, when the plan has been created, you actually action it. This means learning how to visualise your goal, and make it happen. No, you can’t simply change your email signature to CEO and start running the company, but it does mean learning to ask for what you want, and not stopping until it happens.
It sounds simple but getting what you want so often simply boils down to asking for it, yet so few workers ever do; mainly because it involves making yourself vulnerable to the possibility of failure or being shut down. But really, is there any harm in asking? For many workers, the anxiety around the possibility of being rejected is actually far greater than the act itself.
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The vast majority of workers who quit their jobs tout lack of career progression as the key cause, yet many simply expect to work hard and have the opportunities land into their laps – this simply isn’t going to happen, folks.
