Are you moving ahead in your career at top speed and are all set to conquer everything that comes your way. Or are in top gear in your career? Or are you static? Do you feel at times that despite working hard, you are not accomplishing anything? Do you visualize obstacles and impediments in your career path but just cannot do anything to remove them?
You should understand that all problems are not surmountable, though there could be some difficulty in coping with them. And that resilience is not a single skill. It is an assortment of skills and coping techniques. To bounce back from any reversal or failure, you focus has to be on accentuating the positive. Have you ever seen an ant? It is worth emulating. If it cannot negotiate an obstacle in its path, it retraces its steps. Rather than attempting to move ahead in vain and suffering disillusionment in the process, taking a step or two back will be beneficial in the long run.
A step back does not mean that you have met your waterloo. On the other hand, it signals the need to carry out a fresh assessment of a situation that has come about. The issue is how do you do that? The first step is to make that vital decision to take a step back. Unless you make that decision on what you want from your career, you will never be able to get anywhere near it. All decisions and pledges have a telling effect and goad you to adopt a specific career path. If you don’t decide anything, your move will tend to be purposeless and directionless. You need to decide to take a step back because somewhere deep within yourself, you have a feeling that it is inescapable. Your efforts are perhaps not paying off and you feel that it is time for a breather. Taking a break will boost your creativity and position you on an advantageous pedestal. And then you will be better geared to accomplish your objectives.
Most of us believe in doing things because you derive contentment from your actions. But occasionally, actions make you so engrossed that the very reason why you undertook them is forgotten. While actions may be good at first sight, but if they tend to have an adverse effect on your health and happiness, then they are of no avail. It is essential that you earmark time to yourself and stay focused. If you engage yourself in excessive action, the same will tend to get be acknowledged as mandatory and you will sink along with it. The objectives that you set for yourself will keep you highly preoccupied; regrettably, you will fail to remember why in the first place you set them. But if you choose to overdo, the answers to your doubts will get automatically dawn on you.
Nobody wants to introspect and meditate because doing so entails no easy path to move on. And if you happen to think and plan a wee bit more, take it that negative thoughts will start afflicting you. But the fact is that thinking is important because it affords your brain a vent to function. Since your thoughts are yours alone, any effort by you to pay heed to them leads you to your next step and that is your next action. Therefore, if you afford yourself time to introspect and ponder, the real you will surface – somebody who is not well acquainted with you but with whom you seek to be reasonably friendly with.
Remember that every mountain top is within reach if you keep moving. The process of attainment of objectives tends to become slow as the final hour comes closer. Enthusiasm in the initial stages leads to hard work; it is nothing but natural that if hard work does not pay dividends, disappointment follows. And disappointment means that it is high time you take stock of the situation to determine what matters to you most. You need to be aware about what prompted you to select the objectives that you did. If it was because of your passion, then you must ignite the same passions in you again. You will feel rejuvenated and better poised to evaluate if the choice exercised by you was right or not. If you feel that you went wrong, there is no harm in going through the procedure to re-select and re-identify your objectives.
Remember that when you take a step back, you are on familiar ground. You will thus be able to discover what is important to you and which can be present alongside you; or things that are not important and can be dispensed with. Taking a step back is akin to adjusting your sails to reach your destination when you have no control over the wind.
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