Secret to 2012 Success Commitment - Pathfinder Careers

Secret to 2012 Success Commitment - Pathfinder Careers Secret to 2012 Success: Commitment If you arent already subscribed to thought guru Seth Godins blog, I would highly recommend you do so. His short, to-the-point, and thought-provoking posts are momentary day-stoppers because they make you pause and think.  I cannot even imagine what is going on in his mind at any given moment with so many pearls of wisdom floating around in there! But one recent post hit home particularly hard the other day it was about planning versus committing.  On a personal note, I had been planning to write a book on career strategies for a whole year.  In fact, I had planned to spend the entire month of December 2010 working on it, but instead kept adding client appointments which proved great for business but meant zero book completion.  That is, until I made the commitment to actually do it this past December 2011. And guess what? I absolutely made it happen. Notice that one word commitment?  Its all about the follow through, not the intent. Sure, this process was scary.  A whole month without income?  I never thought I could do it but when I committed to the process and saved up funds to make up for the financial hole, my commitment made the opportunity possible.  Was I petrified that clients might leave me because I was unavailable?  You betcha.   But many prospective customers were willing to wait until I started taking clients again the first week of January. And you know what?  A byproduct of being unavailable created pent-up demand.  If this week is any indication, this year is going to be a blistering barn-burner. But what I am getting at is that Godins post about committing is an important mindset that we can apply to our own careers and how we manage them: We plan a lot of things we plan to update our résumés  every few months so we are ready for new opportunities or can easily respond to unplanned job transitions but most of us dont.  We also plan to take that class weve been needing to take.. but dont because we are too busy to find the time.  We plan to attend that networking event we know we should go to but we dont because something else came up or we simply dont feel like it. My question is to you: What kinds of opportunities are you missing out by only planning and not committing? Chances are if you start committing, success will find you versus you trying to seek it.