where you see yourself in the next 10 years
Have you ever received this awful interview question before? They try to catch you out. What you really want to say is “I want to be retired, universally loved, with free food and benefits and 10000 miles away from this stupid building”. But this won’t do, so you consider saying “I want to be a successful manager, responsibly working within this company, developing my career and helping where I am most needed.” But this fails too, it’s far too sycophantic.
So you sit there, stroking your chin and saying “Ummm…. Ahhhh… Um…..” You have to admit it, you just don’t know what you want in ten years time. So you garble this part of the interview like every other candidate. Personally I reckon I got turned down by one company once because I blurted out “I want to be more intelligent, more healthy, better read and a better cook.”
In 10 years time you want to be healthy, rich, happy, more knowledgeable about cooking, perhaps, or public speaking. You’d like to be charismatic and spend more time with your family. Maybe you’d like to have pursued some hobby, like learning a foreign language and living abroad, or chess, or skiing. Maybe you’d like to have given something back to your community and be recognized for it.
The goal is the journey more than it is the destination. You have what it takes to achieve every single one of your aims over the next 10 years. This is what I call success. By the end of 10 years you could be far healthier than you are now and much happier, if only you take the right choices, starting today.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. - Robert H. Schuller
Change starts today. You can keep deferring the things that you really want to be indefinitely and take the easy way out now. And before you know it, you will be far, far away from the model of a successful person. As your boat drifts further away from the island of your fantasies, steering back becomes more and more
So you sit there, stroking your chin and saying “Ummm…. Ahhhh… Um…..” You have to admit it, you just don’t know what you want in ten years time. So you garble this part of the interview like every other candidate. Personally I reckon I got turned down by one company once because I blurted out “I want to be more intelligent, more healthy, better read and a better cook.”
In 10 years time you want to be healthy, rich, happy, more knowledgeable about cooking, perhaps, or public speaking. You’d like to be charismatic and spend more time with your family. Maybe you’d like to have pursued some hobby, like learning a foreign language and living abroad, or chess, or skiing. Maybe you’d like to have given something back to your community and be recognized for it.
The goal is the journey more than it is the destination. You have what it takes to achieve every single one of your aims over the next 10 years. This is what I call success. By the end of 10 years you could be far healthier than you are now and much happier, if only you take the right choices, starting today.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. - Robert H. Schuller
Change starts today. You can keep deferring the things that you really want to be indefinitely and take the easy way out now. And before you know it, you will be far, far away from the model of a successful person. As your boat drifts further away from the island of your fantasies, steering back becomes more and more