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Home›Career›Just How On Earth Are You Supposed To Choose Your Life Direction?

Just How On Earth Are You Supposed To Choose Your Life Direction?

By Contributing Author
December 14, 2019
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Just How On Earth Are You Supposed To Choose Your Life Direction?

Many of us understand that in order to improve, we must follow a path of discipline of some sort. This might be in regularly attending the gym in order to lose weight, or reading more about philosophy and politics to sustain cogent and contributive arguments in that space. Not everyone is interested in the same pursuits, and that’s only a good thing, as it leads to further diversity of opinion and understanding.

However, before you can improve at anything, you need to find a purpose to follow. This can be the hardest choice to make. When you’re on a path, you at least have some kind of parameter to follow. But just how on earth are you supposed to choose a life direction to orient you towards the right compass bearing?

Well, you can never truly know if something is perfect for you or if it only feels that way. However, you can indeed make a set of informed decisions based around your deepest desires or interests, and knowing this can make that guided ideal a little easier to attain.

With this in step, we’d like to explore the following advice:

The Daily Lifestyle

The daily lifestyle you may wish to experience is important when choosing a direction in life. Without it, it’s very easy to be immediately shocked by the practical realities of a lifestyle you had not considered. This is why the best colleges, such as Hofstra University, are convinced that teaching you the important theory of a course is best when combined with practical professional skill development, so you are fully and cohesively prepared for how your career may proceed.

Of course, we do not measure the overall success of a job by how good a certain day is, because bad days can come for a variety of completely understandable reasons, but if those microcosms are thoroughly incompatible with how you prefer to work or live, then you’re going to have trouble seeing the long term.

Your Professional Self

It’s also important to consider how you would like your professional self to look. Are you happy to wear no uniform, to contribute the best of your value wearing smart-casual apparel? Or, are you more interested in wearing a suit, of keeping business cards, in a company car, in building a professional reputation surrounding your services you may wish to use in order to start your own venture one day?

Of course, these latter examples are appropriate for many careers, but not all. Additionally, considering just how much versatility you may be able to experience in training can be important. For example, maybe consider the military to be a one-and-done career path that holds little in the way of diversity, but many different specialisms and extra course options for added qualifications may give you more of a chance to grab opportunities than many other fields. It’s important to consider just how much of a branched path you are comfortable with.

Considering Potential

Considering potential can be important. Perhaps you’re interested in writing for a magazine, but outside of going freelance or working your way up to a management position, you may not find much potential in the ascent of your career, especially when some roles may take decades to open. That being said, a career such as journalism could give you a great degree of variance between your working days, and give you the potential of applying much profound value to your working efforts.

Finding what works best for you is basically found in what you’d be willing to prioritize. Understanding what your red lines are can better help you understand the nuance of your decision. This, in turn, can lead long training periods, boring shifts, or the tumult of bad working experience with less of an impact on the surety of your chosen path, because you’ll know you’re on the right track.

Staying Optimistic

It’s also important to stay optimistic in your pursuits. Remember, no one figures out the best path they could ever take. You simply find that which sustains you and that you enjoy. That’s the best you can do, and luckily, it’s more than enough. You can feel more than happy in a range of careers provided they mesh well with your personality. Even the times in which you follow jobs you’re less interested in can teach you valuable things going forward. When you have that as part of the process, you will find positivity going forward.

With this advice, you’re sure to choose your life direction with care.

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