Read, Write, and You: Identifying crossroads in our careers

Choose

[chooz]

  1. to select from a number of possibilities
  2. to want; desire
  3. to prefer or decide (to do something)
  4. to be inclined

Read, Write, and You identifies crossroads in our careers and lives when we are either thinking of making a move or change or acclimating to a new role or purpose. It highlights transitional periods in professional relationships, responsibilities, and determinations to remain as is or become what could be.

  • The READ selections remind us that it is often times much easier to hope or wish for something new as opposed to assume ownership.
  • The WRITE options encourage us to put structure around our goals – to organize and align our goals with tried and true behaviors, tactics, and practices. To ensure that we are taking action toward our goals and not merely talking about them as though they were unobtainable.
  • The YOU selections remind us that it is up to us to personalize our goals. It is up to us to say: "This matters, and this is what I am going to do to achieve it."

And certainly, we would be remiss in a month in which we celebrate our freedom to choose where, how, what, and why in so many different arenas. In our professional lives, though, our goals are limited only by our inability to take action to achieve them.

Choose wisely. And then choose wisely again and again.

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." – William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters