The following is a summary of Episode 56 of my podcast, The Engineering Career Coach (TECC) Podcast. I will summarize the main points in this post; however, you can also listen to the show through the website or by subscribing on iTunes. I offer a career-changing tip at the end of each podcast session.
“He focuses not just on the goal to be reached, but on everything happening around him. He often has to stop because his strength fails him. At such moments, love appears and says: you think you’re heading toward a special point, but the whole justification for the goals existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little. But as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.” – Paulo Coelho, excerpt from Manuscript Found in Accra
In the Take Action Today segment of this episode, I read another excerpt from Paulo Coelho hoping that it will inspire you as you face challenges and adventures in your engineering career and life.
Listen to this session and learn from my five biggest career challenges:
- Letting go – I found that it is fun to work with more people than working alone, and it is always helpful to find and work with others who have different skill sets than you.
- Uncertainty – You never know what will happen today or tomorrow, but if you follow your passion and do connect with right people, you can find happiness regardless of how successful you are.
- Accountability – Accountability is what brings results. We want to hold ourselves accountable to you, as the audience. That is why we will have an accountability post quarterly on the blog to let you know what we’ve done, what we are working on and when we are going to accomplish these things.
- Really helping engineers live better – A lot of engineers are so overwhelmed by their job, that they don’t fully enjoy the rest of their lives. Our vision is to help engineers not just to be successful in their career but also be happy in life by applying the resources we offer.
- Maintaining balance in my life – I want to be intentional about being an example for you by maintaining the balance between my career and life so that you can do the same with yours.
What challenges are you facing today in your engineering career and personal life?
Anthony Fasano, PE, author of Engineer Your Own Success, found success as an engineer at a very early age and now writes and podcasts to help other engineers do the same. Visit Anthony’s website at EngineeringCareerCoach.com to access all of the free engineering career resources he has created to help engineers succeed.