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The Ten Biggest Mistakes People Make in Their Careers
© 2003 - By Craig Nathanson
  1. Continuing to do more of what they don’t like due to external pressures.

  2. Not taking the time to look inside one’s self on what they really want in their vocational life.

  3. Continuing to do their current job without a sense of purpose, meaning or fulfillment in what they do.

  4. Not understanding or following what they prize most in their life and knowing if and when they are following or not following what’s most important to them.

  5. Not having a healthy perspective of themselves.

  6. Blocking their creativity with their negativity when examining new possibilities.

  7. Not having a clear sense of their role in the world. Continuing in careers which only match low challenge and high skill, or high challenge and low skill or worst, low challenge and low skill.

  8. Having a negative daily position or attitude.

  9. Not having a clear vision of what their perfect vocational day would be if money wasn’t an issue.

  10. Lacking discipline to define one’s desired future state vs.the current state. and the actions required to move towards more of what they want in their
    vocational life.


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