Bad choices can lead to good ones

Caption: it might be a good time to take stock and think about your future. Picture by Getty Images.

What's going on in your career? Frustration? Boredom? Exhaustion? These are things we all deal with in today's workplace.

If your career is not where you want it to be, it's up to you to do something about it. Action is what gets results - not waiting.

So what are you choosing?

Are you choosing to work on making more money or quietly wishing a raise will come to you? Are you choosing to update your resume or is simply being busy sufficient?

Are you actively choosing to discover what your true passion is or are you hoping the answer will magically appear?

The choices you make today will determine whether you are happy tomorrow.

In order to go forward, sometimes you have to go back. Once you can accept where you have been, then you can make plans to move forward.

Look at your career. Where have your choices led you?

1. Have Bad Choices Led To Regret?

Everyone has something in their career they wish they'd done differently.

It's not what happens to you in your career that matters, but how you recover from it.

Have you moved on, or are you replaying every moment over again in your mind? Let it go so you can move on to something better.

2. Have Bad Choices Led To A Bad Attitude?

Are you fun to be around? Or, do people ignore you?

What kind of vibe are you sending at work or on interviews?

Believe you are hiding a bad attitude? Your belief is wrong. People can pick it up from a mile away.

You may think that you have a right to be gloomy, but the person you are hurting the most is you.

Want to shake things up in your career and see real results? Become a more positive person.

3. Have Bad Choices Led To Fear?

What are you afraid of? Afraid to ask for more money or resources? Afraid to speak up in meetings?

Afraid to call people you know to see if they have a job opportunity for you?

Afraid to go after your passion?

There is a difference between being afraid and letting fear paralyse you.

Even though you are busy, you know yourself pretty well. You know when fear is getting in the way. The question is what will you do about it.

4. Start Making Good Choices

Until you make better choices, your old choices will continue to haunt you.

Start today by making one good choice. Good choices made over time will lead you to a more fulfilling career.

So, what do you say? You only have one life to live, so it might as well be a life you love!

* Deborah Brown-Volkman is the president of Surpass Your Dreams, Inc. a successful career, life, and mentor coaching company in the US. She is the author of "Coach Yourself To A New Career" and "How To Feel Great At Work Everyday."