Today, I use every opportunity I'm given to learn and grow. I don't just think about doing well in my current job, I'm thinking about the next job and how this one will help me get there. I've learned the hard way, that if I'm not growing and if my current job isn't setting me up for future success, it's time to move on.

Whether you work for yourself or someone else, the work you do is a "job". If you add up all the jobs you've had throughout your life, that's your career. That's the story you will hopefully one day be able to tell your grandkids. The story doesn't always make sense in the moment, but in the end, you can see how one opportunity or one decision led to the next.

That story, what I call your career story, is what you want to be deliberate about. You're the author of that story. Some of the plot twist you don't get to control, but you get to decide how you, the main character of that story, will use those plot twists to write your next chapter. Knowing how you want that story to read and how you want it to end up, will help to guarantee a better story, when you get the chance to tell it one day.

Join me as we stop settling and become clear on what it is we want, and make a plan to get it. Let's be like pirates 🏴‍☠️ and use every opportunity we have to seek out our fortunes.