Rules of Life, The, 4th Edition

RULE 97

Have a plan for your career

So where are you going at work? Have you a plan? A goal? Even a humble aim? If you don’t have any of these, chances are you’re going to drift. If you do have a plan, you stand a better chance of getting to where you want to be. Knowing where you want to be is 90 per cent of the battle. Knowing where you want to be means you’ve sat down and thought about things, that you’ve been conscious about your future and have focused your attention on it.

Once you’ve looked ahead and decided where you want to be – and there is no right or wrong about where that is, you can be as determined and ambitious as you want – you can plan the logical steps you need to get you there. And once you have those steps, you can work ...