Hello, and welcome to this 26th episode of the Happy UN Career podcast which is all about the power of prioritization – and what happens when you fail to honour the prioritisations you’ve made. Or even to take the time to do the prioritisation in the first place.

Many of my clients contact me because they’re not progressing in their career and their professional development as they would like to. Maybe you recognize this?

The days race by and suddenly there went another week, another month – maybe even another year – where you did not sign up for the certification training you planned to do; you did not reach out to the mentor you wanted to; you did not apply for new jobs in a consistent way, and so on and so forth.

You thought about doing something about it. You meant to do it. You just didn’t get around to it. Because you were busy.

The problem is you will always be busy!

When you don’t prioritise, you’ll experience something called “drift”. I’m inspired by the American writer, Gretchen Rubin who talks quite a bit about this topic. Drift is what can happen when you’re taking the path of the least resistance. It doesn’t necessarily mean that what you do is easy, but it’s what you do because you haven’t thought a lot about what you really want or what’s right for you. And so, you do what others expect from you or you “flow” with what everybody else around you are doing. So, you could say that drift happens when you don’t make active choices yourself.

So, what to do?
Read the full show notes at www.barbarakandersen.com/26 where you’ll also find the description of the 3 simple steps that will help you move forward."