“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else!” Yogi Berra
“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7a. The Hebrew verb translated “thinketh”…means “estimate” or “calculate.” The clause might more accurately be rendered “as one who calculates with himself, so is he,” or “he is like one who is inwardly calculating.” (Gotquestions.org)
Here at Crossroads Career we try to emphasize the word “Explore” for people who are unemployed or unfilled. The theme behind this emphasis is to encourage people to seek out different opportunities, to not just settle for what they’ve been doing, as we think a crossroads in a career is a terrific time to hear God calling, find the right job, or maximize your potential.
Yet at the same time, we believe an exploration needs to have a direction, a focus, some guidance, and a plan for a person to arrive at the right outcome, humanly speaking. While God can and does show up supernaturally for us, He also expects us to use our brains and experiences to find where we best fit in His plan. So we’ve got to think, estimate, or calculate what actions to take in approaching our exploration.
Figuring Out What’s Next
A few years ago, after close to 16 years at UnitedHealth Group, I exited the company and went through a career transition. For years I had heard and met people who had been on sabbaticals, and not one of them regretted a moment of taking a pause from their career journey to step back, reflect, think, and figure out what could be next.
So I gave myself a four month sabbatical, and as I got started, my good friend Joe Colavito gave me some superb advice. He encouraged me to think about and pick a few words to describe the attributes I wanted in the next gig and my life before I got too far down the road with exploration. As a side bar, you can hear some of Joe’s wisdom he shared with us in this podcast. (Listen HERE).
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