Blaze-trail your career aspirations

“If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.”

- Buddhist saying

There is nothing more gratifying and satiating than mustering up pluck and resolution to follow your career ambitions. If you afford yourself adequate time and plan properly, you can author your own success account.

If you feel that you are unhappy in your present job, the urge to give wings to your passions ought to become more intense than ever before. Career specialists opine that prior to getting on the highway to delight as distinct from the road to decline, you will have to remedy several issues.

You sure want to follow your inner desires. And likewise, you want to continue on your current career journey that ensures your pecuniary steadiness and stability in various other features of your life. But discerning the appropriate moment to decide on any of these issues can indeed be a very thorny affair. If you have to decide on the time and methodology to follow your career aspirations, you need consider several factors holistically. Some actions that warrant serious contemplation are:

· Evolving your romanticism to pragmatism by doing self-talk: You should devote more and more time to identify and recognise yourself as also your career-related ambitions, goals and  desires well. In your career journey, there is nobody who can replace you as the captain. You must introspect and talk to yourself. There are certain queries that are both your fundamentals and preconditions; and you ought to raise them with yourself. These important enquiries are:

Ø Is this only an erstwhile reverie or musing? Or is it a passionate and persisting yearning?

Ø In case you set out to chase your dreams straight away, what are the related finest and most horrible circumstances that you may encounter?

Ø If you were to stumble on the most horrible circumstances, do you have the resilience to pull through them?

Ø Is it that you are chasing a dream or trying to escape from a horrendous experience?

Ø What is that you are most apprehensive about? And can you look all such fears straight into their eyes and come out with feasible ways out of them?

· Taking stock of your money-matters: You must shed any misconception that you may have that it is only the rich who can dream big and achieve whatever they dream. You may still have pending obligations and may not consider it appropriate to abandon them. But you still have a number of alternatives to choose from. Perhaps you may conclude that keeping your present job is advisable and in your interests however, you can reflect upon the details of your new endeavour after working hours. You should devise methods to add up to your bank balance. In this context, you could review your expenditures and decide to do away with some of them that if not wasteful, can definitely be avoided.

· Seeking advice from all quarters: The aim of the entire exercise is to determine if setting out for your dream job is sensible or not. Advice from trusted people beyond your current field of work will offer you great perception on the pros and cons of your efforts. There will be many who would have done likewise in the past and are today successful. Taking a word of advice from them will stand you in good stead. You could also identify a guru for the purpose. Remember that we tend to get ensnared in our own visualisations of things and under such situations, external assistance facilitates picturing of a more truthful mosaic.

· Devoting efforts towards yourself & in furthering your qualifications: As far as your decision to chase your dreams is concerned, you are the most important player in it. You must understand that adding on to your qualifications is very significant. You must research to find out what special skills are essential in your new venture; and acquire not just one but a couple of them.

You should not be like a paper boat that bobs, dips and moves up and down the flow of water. Rather than count on luck and hope, you must take control of your career. You must define your aspirations and more importantly chase them in a pragmatic manner. Unless you know where you want to go, how will you ever get there?

The secret of success in life is for a man to be always ready for his opportunity when it comes. Aspects highlighted above are intended to serve as guidelines to make your decision-making process move forward. But when it actually comes to chasing your dreams, like others, you will have your own considerations to reflect upon and priorities to follow. It is you and you alone who can precisely state whether the opportune moment is now or may be, it will unfold sometimes subsequently. Remember that your hopes will never abandon you; it is only you who may walk out on them. Therefore, guard against any inclination to give up and simply blaze-trail your aspirations.