Create Small Wins

The road of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I can't remember who's quoted as first having said this, but it rings very true. Many of us see career change as being something that requires a huge jump. One day you are here, and then, woahhh... then, you're there. I don't think I've ever heard of a story where it actually happened this way.

Most people I know who haven't done anything about actually getting into action with their career change (or even exploring it), haven't done so, because they think it's too big a step for them. They think they don't have the confidence, strength, courage, whatever it is that others have, to do it. What they don't always see or acknowledge, is that nobody makes a huge leap. We might just not have access to seeing the ‘small steps' that it has taken for people to take the leaps that we see them make.

I just recently interviewed two different people for my newsletter, Escape Stories, and both said that two years before making what externally looked like the ‘leap', they started to do a lot of work in order for the big step to just be a natural progression. Things they did included studying, saving money, finding investors, writing business plans, creating marketing channels, doing whatever it is that they needed to have as a foundation before they felt the ‘externally seen' change happened.

Each step that you take is a small win, as it's taking you one step closer to your goal. I think that a lot of us are impatient, and want to have already changed yesterday so we don't always have what it takes to realise that all of it requires a plan and a good amount of work before change happens. This isn't helped by a lot of the bumf out there of change your life in 24 hours type of stuff. Nobody changes everything, but we can change a lot, one step at a time. Saving money - 1 pound a day is a lot easier to achieve than 365 pounds once a year. Same thing with career change. Do something small each day, create small wins for yourself. Where could you start - today?