626: Why You Are Not Getting Ahead in Your Career

But today, we want to jump right into the idea of your career and why you're not getting ahead or seemingly not getting ahead.

This could apply also to personal growth, in fact, business growth as well.

So the idea of getting ahead in your career is only as good as your destination.

And that's ultimately one of the first reasons why you might not be getting ahead is because you have a loose sense of where it is you should be going.

But like it was said in the book, Alice in Wonderland, if you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.

Basically, a paraphrase.

But the idea is very sound, which is if you're directionless, but you crave progress, the next action you have to do is determine where you are and where you need to go.

And then every decision that you make from that point of where you are now compared to where you want to be is determined.

is going to be more intelligent.

It's going to be more intentional.

But I think what we're used to doing, at least this is true for parts of my career, where I think I could have been farther ahead to things that are valuable that I today see, wow, I had potential that was unused because I wasn't using my energy to define my goals.

I wasn't really aware of my every motion and every decision creating the road that I was actually walking on.

Every step, it is this direction or that direction.

And honestly, there are years of my life in coffee where I was just used to working day in and day out, day in and day out.

And You get those small victories and you get the encouragement of the moment and being in the moment is fine.

I'm not asking you to live into some future state at which you will be happy.

No, not on this show.

I'm definitely a big fan of the idea that we need to be able to cultivate and extract joy from the work that we do now.

However, you also are working toward something and For example, if you are a barista and you began that work just with a fascination of coffee, eventually your eyes were opened up to what the world of coffee could offer you.

And you decided, I want to become a roaster.

It would be nice to be a roaster one day.

Or you just had that thought.

Instead of, I want to become this, you say, it would be nice to be a roaster.

oh, what would it be like to own my own coffee shop? And oftentimes it just stops there.

And you have that thought, but then the next thing comes up and you do that next thing and that next thing, et cetera.