“…yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”.

Managing one’s career is a long-term prospect. It starts with today and goes full circle.

Imagine if you started today to schedule some dedicated time - a few hours, a day or even a weekend retreat - to ponder these questions:

Where does your passion match your talent? And where do these overlap with market need? Where do you fit in society and meet a need in the world or in a market based on your passion and talent? This requires some thinking, perhaps even doing an assessment and talking to people.

Start to imagine 10 years from now what your career would look like. What would you be doing? What kind of environment will you be in and with what kind of people? What values would they have? If you had done that 10 years ago and followed that commitment along the way, today your dreams would have come true. And that's what we want for you - that your dreams come true.

Imagine a version of that 5 years from now. What would have to happen along the way? Or two years? Or this year? What are some of more of the short term steps that you have to take?

Write some paragraphs on this. Draw pictures. Allow yourself to immerse in the envisioning of your ideal career path. Then, come back to today and start planning, taking the action and sharing this plan with people close to you who will stay in a committed conversation with you to fulfill on your career direction.

In 10 years, and starting right away, you will be on the path of your dreams coming true.

So what about you? When and with whom will you schedule this soul searching for your career direction?