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.