What do you do if your career is facing setbacks and you want to uncover your strengths?

Facing setbacks in your career can be challenging, but it can also provide an opportunity for growth and self-discovery. 1. Reflect on Past Successes: Think back to times in your career when you felt successful and accomplished. 2. Seek Feedback: Reach out to colleagues & mentors. 3. Take Assessments: Consider taking personality assessments or strengths assessments. 4. Evaluate Skills and Abilities: Make a list of skills and abilities that you enjoy using and that come naturally to you. . 5. Consider Past Challenges: Think about past challenges or obstacles you've overcome in your career. 6. Be Patient and Persistent: Uncovering your strengths takes time and self-reflection.

Let me start by saying that I have learned far more from my failures than I ever have from my successes in life. Setbacks in a career can be devastating and may seem like the end of the world at the time, however, they can also be a time of reflection and growth. They can be seen as an opportunity to go in a direction that you may have entertained the thought of for years and just never had the time to pursue. It also may be a time to reflect on the level of satisfaction and meaning your career has for you. Setbacks in your career are inevitable as they are in every other area of life, but they don’t have to mean the end. They can actually be a new beginning.

Facing a setback in your career is an opportunity to reflect on your purpose and desires. Sometimes, revisiting moments from high school, college, or early in your career when you were forming your work identity can provide answers and help realign your path. Additionally, facing a setback can prompt introspection about what went wrong and confronting your imperfections. This process of facing your imperfections can lead to new discoveries.

Personally, I welcomed the ton of breaks that came in between my struggle to keep the same pace and nature of what was extremely useful in my professional curriculum! But letting go of that schedule opened ideas and innovations, & how that the same environment would not have offered me the growth! Not all falls are bad!

Set backs are an opportunity to make a come back. Therefore, it is important to assess what is contributing to your set back, what did you take away from it and look to develop a plan that helps you leverage your setback to make a stronger comeback. Furthermore, it is key to identify ways to cope with future set backs by using resources and tools because to help you solve setback problems. Resiliency, purpose and having an accountability mindset will help you to never settle with being stuck in the mud of future setbacks that limit your ability to move forward. In closing, coaching and strategy can be your accountability partner.

One key mindset shift is realizing that change itself is actually easy. The real challenge lies in feeling secure enough to make a change when you're weighed down by worries, fears, and doubts. So, the trick is to focus on doing the things that will yield benefits.

To embrace change, I have learned that I am the one who has seen a lot of people making it tough on me. I have to make the move to move on. Then let them see how easy they had when I worked.

Change is a MUST! Grow in each decade of your life! The growing pain is all paid off if intuition is intact! Ride free from your own judgements and ignore all the Ney-saying voices from past and future! Future has not happened yet, look how we make dark scenarios out of our own fears and the lack of support of our own strengths!