The path to reaching your work life goals - getting a new job, changing careers, re-entering the workplace, launching a new business - requires a price of passage. And it may not be what you think. Test your intent, willingness and readiness to pursue your goals by answering the five questions below.

Are you prepared to pay the price to realize your dreams?

1. Are you willing to see yourself differently? Do you see yourself as a person who… gets the new job, starts a new business, takes on a new project? Succeeding will require you to give up a negative self-concept that isn’t serving you. To think in another way.

2. Are you willing to walk through the emotional side - fear, feelings of inadequacy, self-doubt, and depression? Change isn’t comfortable. People commonly procrastinate to avoid discomfort. Stay the course. Confidence will build as you leverage each new accomplishment.

3. How serious are you about making the investment? Will you enthusiastically invest the time, resources, training, energy and effort to achieve your goal? People may say they want something badly, but actually doing what it takes to bring their dreams to fruition is another story.

4. Are you willing to take risks and maybe fail sometimes? Are you willing to be engaged, participate, stretch, challenge yourself and grow? There’s a price to pay when we venture forward. But the cost is so much greater if we don’t try.

5. Do your current efforts synch up with the size of your goal? Do you light a small candle and expect it to illuminate the entire room? Rather than passively waiting for “something” to happen, show up, reach out, make new professional connections. Market yourself and demonstrate your unique value.

Today’s question
Are you ready to make the internal and external changes needed to achieve your goals?