Motivation in Meeting Your Career Goals

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A lot of us, when we were young, dream of many things to achieve once we get old. We wanted to be a nurse, a doctor, a teacher, an engineer, an architect or even an astronaut. We want to be all of them when we grow up. But as we go along in life, and gain a greater understanding of it, some of the lucky ones among us gradually tunnel-visioned ourselves into that specific dream.

The decision to pursue this dream may have come out from an experience that seems to draw us to it, or the realization of what we really want out of life or how we go about living it. But somehow, somewhere, and at a certain time we will choose to be what we want to be. We will foresee our career path. And eventually this career will be our passion.

To be passionate about something means to be motivated to get better and better in this that we do. This is in preparation for us to be the best. That is one the motivations in fact. If we think that we do want to be the best then we will be motivated to do all our best to be such.

Firstly, though we must set our career goals, we should make them as specific as possible so that we can have particular plans of actions that will specifically lead us to that dream result. These goals though we should make realistic.

They should be something you can actually get to be. Actually, you can be anything you want to be but to get there. But you have to accept the reality that anything so far high in a life’s goal is not as easy as counting from 1 to 3. So take it one step at a time. Make a plan to reach that goal that is gradual and efficient. Slowly but surely as we they say.

Plan a short-term goal first. The first plan should be to get to the right job and to be at the right place. Choose a place that would open for you a lot of opportunities, especially opportunities to grow, career-wise and personally. Then you can get from there. Follow the steps to success; go from one level to the next. If you get lucky, may be you can skip some levels. This is possible as we have seen in life from time to time.

All these times though, hold on to your motivations. It may be that burning dream that you have had since you were a kid. There is nothing that could compare to the feeling of having your childhood dreams realized. So that desire is a very intense motivation.

For whom you are striving so hard for is another motivation. Usually these are family members that serve as our purpose to be the best we can be. Not only do they inspire us to provide for them financially but sometimes more importantly we want to give pride for them, for our family. Our loved ones and friends and other people and things that we care about can even be a greater motivation than what we hope for ourselves.

In the end the best motivation could be what makes us happy. What we choose to be now can lead to us being happy all our lives, or to being miserable. So we must continuously remind ourselves of these things, because they will define our career goals. And they will sustain our motivation to reach these dreams!

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Australian Chef- Matthew Goudge is the mastermind behind the formation of the chef21blog platform. Since the initial humble beginnings Chef Matthew has been dedicated to creating this very network. Chef Matthew has been in the culinary field for a mere 21 years. He has worked in numerous locations including; Australia, Austria, England, Malaysia, China and St Lucia. Matthew’s first steps in the field of article writing began at the tender age of nineteen; whereby he contributed a weekly story for a local newspaper in coastal New South Wales, Australia.

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Posted on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 11:44 am
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