You did an amazing job on your job search. You put together a great resume, got the interview, and got the job of your dreams! Only now that you’re there, you kind of hate it. Before you run in waving a letter of resignation there are a few things you should consider.

If there are definite goals you want to achieve, then one of the best things you can do for yourself is create a mental goal-map.

When you go into the office everyday are you still feeling the same kind of hungry perseverance that propelled you so hard and fast while you were on the job hunt? Or are the days starting to feel more and more like mirrors of each other?

So often we don’t get what we want, but as the song says, we should never despair because as often as not we will get what we need.

As our devices do more and more of the heavy lifting for our memories, and provide us with everything we could wish for with the click of a few buttons, something is getting diminished in the whirr of technological advances. Our ability to focus.

When we say backwards way of achieving your goals we don’t mean getting into your car and driving in reverse everywhere you want to go, or learning the difficult art of backwards speaking.

What are you passionate about? What do you aspire to? You don’t need to have world changing or life changing goals. What you do need are reasons for being here.

If a steady paycheck is all you’re after, it should be pretty straightforward to throw your line out into the water and secure one of those jobs.  If you’re after a bigger fish, the job you really want, the one you’ve been putting so much time and imagination into securing, you’re going to need a bigger boat.

The people in your network can help you, they can teach you, they can take you along paths you may not have considered before, introduce you to more people who can help you.

So many people are so concerned with the go-go-go of their lives they don’t slow down enough to consider the importance of stop-stop-stop. Sometimes people need a brain break.

The waiting place is that place you find yourself while you’re waiting for something else to happen. For the approval you’ve been waiting for on that report you sent in. On the funding you’re hoping to get for your new project. For the meeting you’re trying to arrange with the person you want to be your mentor. 

Some people have no trouble with procrastination. They get up with a list of things to do and they do them, systematically without delay. Others have a list of things to do or more often, a single thing to do and they take it with them from pit stop to pit stop while their procrastination problem distracts them with unending diversions to keep them from stopping long enough to get on with their list.

No matter what your goals, big or small, you’re going to have to take concrete steps to get them out of the wish zone into the fulfillment zone.

No matter what the size of your task, whether you’re prepared to do it or would rather put it off indefinitely, there’s a little trick that can completely change your perspective on it.

The words you choose speak volumes about you and at the same time influence how others perceive you.

Technology is great for so many things, from helping you get a job, to keeping you informed about news and current events, to getting you to that restaurant for your first date with that new person you met online. 

What you may not realize is, technology can also lead to depression, stress and sleep disorders. That’s why it’s so important to enter the technology free zone for a while every single day.

Of course it’s heartbreaking when things don’t work out the way you want and sometimes it feels like they never will, but as Rafiki says, you always have a choice. “You can either run from it, or learn from it.”

All of us would like to get more done everyday, but slumps hit, our attention wavers, our motivation wanes and another day goes by with us having falling short of our best intentions.

Thinking about doing something is always harder than actually getting down to doing it. And the longer you spend thinking and putting off doing, the harder it is to get down to business.

If you want to achieve anything you need to have a very clear idea of what you want to accomplish and why.