Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know how to meet any challenge you might have in your career? Will keep tuned and in to two or three more blogs, I’m going to give you a system to approach how you deal with obstacles which come up in your work. So print out this blog or save it and refer back to it when you are feeling stuck.
First, You will need to identify the KIND of challenge you are facing. Some of the more obvious ones are:
- Financial/ not enough income
- Enjoyment
- Not enough personal time
- Not happy with area of law practing
- Don’t know how to market
- Feeling lonely
- Anxiety/stress
- Depression
- Too much work or too little work
- Time Management
These are only a few challenges but this is where you start. The better you can define the actual challenge , the more success you will have overcoming it.
Asking yourself: Why is it a challenge for me is the next step to answer. The more information that you can find out about the fears or blocks that you are experiencing around the challenge will help you to really get down to the nut of the challenge. Doing this step may even show up as that your challenge is something else. Say for instance, you are having trouble with your assistant. He/She is showing up late to work, spends time on personal errands and generally doesn’t support your work. On the other hand, he/she is very intelligent, a distant relative and his/her salary demand is very low. So at this point you see the challenge as being stuck trying to make a decision about what to do next.
But what if the real challenge is that you are unwilling to be a real business person and look at your bottom line? The fear of having to face the fact that this person is not supporting your business and that it would take a tremendous amount of mentoring, teaching and supervision to change this is the real problem.
You can see how getting to the correct, specific challenge you are facing is the FIRST STEP.
We’ll get to what to do with this information with next week’s blog…..SO STAY TUNED!