The challenge for your career focus for next month involves determining what you would like to achieve over the next 12 months.
Now these goals (yes, plural!) could relate to many things that will help you in your equine career. They could involve:
- Developing new skills (be specific, e.g. ‘learn to ride left lead canter, worm 50 horses at work or learn to take a horse’s vital signs’)
- Gaining a qualification
- Starting a new job
- Developing contacts and acquiring new skills via carrying out work experience
- Starting a new discipline
- Reading a particular horse book (or books!)
- Saving for an equine experience (travel, competition, clinic, riding lessons)
The idea of a short term plan is that it helps you to better develop yourself and work towards a goal, in a set timeframe. Once you’ve determined what you want to do over the next 12 months, be sure to make them as SMART as possible (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely).
Whatever your list, try to set yourself a goal of achieving something each month or every other month so that you feel like you’re progressing through it. Momentum builds momentum. As you achieve something, you are motivated to press on and see what else you can do – I dare you to try it!
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