Planning Your Career and Your Life

Course details

Determining what you want for yourself, both professionally and personally, is an ongoing challenge. This course was designed to help you find your way. Instructor Chris Croft provides a roadmap for anyone trying to solve the interrelated challenges of career and life planning. Chris shares tips for figuring out your ideal career, discussing work-life balance, the pros and cons of being self-employed and starting your own business, and the choice between taking risky jobs and settling for safe jobs that don't excite you. Then, he covers how to find your ideal job by narrowing down both the type of job and the subject area. Chris also addresses finding your life purpose—the sweet spot where you ideally do something you are good at and enjoy. This course is aimed at people who are starting out in life, those who are unhappy with where they are, and those who want to think longer term about where their life is going.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - How you drift through life

1. What Kind of Life

02 - The six career options
03 - Which option is best for you
04 - The meaning of life
05 - Stress spiral - Don't overdo, either achieve or enjoy
06 - Wrap up

2. Life Goals

07 - The importance of goals
08 - Enjoy and achieve, at home and at work
09 - My story - When I discovered goals
10 - How goals work
11 - My story - Types of careers
12 - Non-attachment to goals
13 - Money last
14 - Wrap up

3. The Ideal Job

15 - Is there an ideal job for everyone
16 - Risk of redundancy
17 - Restless search
18 - Is it okay to be content

4. Self-Employment

19 - Self-employment
20 - Pros and cons of self-employment
21 - How to get started
22 - Top tips for self employment

5. Which Job Would Be Best for Me

23 - Which job would be best
24 - The three circles
25 - What is a life purpose
26 - How to find your life purpose
27 - Why computers can't help
28 - Which subject area - Analysis
29 - Which subject area - People
30 - If you can't get the job you want
31 - Wrap up

6. If You're Unhappy Where You Are

32 - If you're unhappy where you are
33 - It's okay to want to move
34 - Should you settle for a job that's safe and easy
35 - Should you take that risky option
36 - The signs of being in the wrong place
37 - Self development is always important
38 - My story - The effect of bad bosses
39 - Wrap up

7. Ways to Move

40 - Ways to move
41 - Maximize your contacts
42 - How valuable are qualifications
43 - Mastermind groups
44 - Opportunities within your current organization

8. Success Factors

45 - What makes a person successful in their job
46 - Six success factors for your career
47 - The inputs and outputs of success
48 - The efficient greyhound
49 - The ambitious mountain goat
50 - The plodding tortoise
51 - The dreaming koala
52 - The fun-loving kangaroo
53 - The achieving eagle
54 - Why there are only six possibilities
55 - Development plans for each animal

Conclusion

56 - Summing up