A lot of people seem to be very enthusiastic about the beginning of a New Year and the new opportunity that it brings, but this enthusiasm usually fades after a few weeks. First of all this can be as a result of a lack of clarity that accompanies their planning and vividness of the goals that they want to achieve. They aren’t seeing a clear target and as a result they aren’t being attracted and inspired to take action. Maybe doing a little trick will help your resume and you to fix this mist.
Chris Baglieri recently wrote his first public blog post and has shared an unconventional method about his approach of setting New Year resolutions. He says that in the beginning of a new year, he takes his resume and deliberately fills it with fictive facts about his life and his career: he mentions on it several achievements like launching a successful product, leading a team and other similar initiatives. Then he asks himself about the specific steps that he should take to accomplish those achievements in real life.
Even though it may sound ridiculous, it seems a proper method of gaining more clarity and vividness of the goals that he would be excited to achieve during that year. The author of the popular book, 4 Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss would describe this with the question that he advised to ask ourselves: What if I did the opposite?
If you haven’t made a list of the things that you want to accomplish, or you have already made one, but you aren’t feeling much motivated to take action, maybe taking this approach of this engineer to turn your resume into fiction can serve as a beneficial means for your future life.
