- Are you a high achiever, but when it comes to your career,
you can't help but get the feeling
that you'd be farther along by now?
On this episode, in this video,
I'm gonna show you the three reasons
why you're probably feeling this way,
and the one thing that you can do
to actually get unstuck (hand smacking) today.
I'm TK, I'm the author of the book
"How to Punch the Sunday Jitters in the Face",
entrepreneur, and angel investor.
On this channel, "Unstoppable", I help high achievers
become focused and become "Unstoppable",
with belief and discipline.
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If you're a high achiever, and you can't figure out
why you can't get ahead in your career,
you thought you'd be farther along,
in this video, I'm gonna give you the three reasons
why you're feeling unstuck, and the one thing you can do
to actually get unstuck.
Reason number one that you're feeling this way
is you don't actually know what you're fighting for.
(hand smacking) Here's the thing about high achievers.
We're really good at doing things.
We're really good at picking a goal,
and then demolishing it.
But if you're feeling stuck, over and over and over again,
even though you've demolished a bunch a goals,
I've been there, it's probably because
you just don't know what you're fighting for.
You're picking goals that maybe you're attracted to
on some level, but deep inside,
it's not the thing that you're meant to be doing.
Which brings me to my number two reason,
you're on the wrong career path.
For the longest time, I thought my destiny
would just be to be a SAS, a venture backed CEO.
Great career path, but something felt off.
Even though I had successful companies,
and I had successful roles in that space,
it just felt off.
And then finally, finally I looked myself in the eye,
and I said, "You know what, TK,
"here's what you actually want to do."
And that's when I launched "Unstoppable".
It was big career change,
but I knew that it was worth taking a risk around.
So reason number two is you're probably on
some safe career path that someone else chose for you,
and it isn't true to what you really want.
Which reinforces the idea that you don't even know
what you're fighting for maybe.
These are moments where I always get people to think,
all right, let's just pause (hands clapping).
How did you end up here?
How did you make the choices?
How did you pick your major in college?
I did a video about that.
How did you actually do this job,
what were your successes, what were your wins?
You need to actually get conscious and proactive
on how you're making choices about your career,
instead of just reacting to a decision
you may have made 10 years ago.
I want you to take a moment, and just for us,
all of us "Unstoppable" people, I want you to comment below.
How did you pick your career path?
How did you pick your college major?
Did you consciously do it, 'cause you loved it,
did you kinda do it because you were told to do it?
Did you just get pushed into it?
How did you pick it?
I want you to comment below.
Just give the one liner, two words, whatever it takes
to explain how did you pick it, comment below.
Which brings me to number three.
You may not have a proactive plan.
The thing is, again, as high achievers,
we're doing, doing, doing, (fist thumping)
crushing goals, crushing goals, crushing goals,
and then you're moving onto the next goal,
before we even celebrate
and we have nothing to actually tether ourselves to.
We don't have a strategy for our lives.
We don't know, all right I'm gonna do this,
then I'm gonna do this, then I'm gonna do this,
and when I do those things, it's all gonna click,
and boom, I'm gonna get what I want.
We don't have that plan, and maybe you don't have that plan.
So number three reason why
you're feeling stuck in your career,
even if you had small wins or big wins,
it's 'cause you don't have a plan to tether yourself to.
If you don't have a plan to tether yourself to,
you'll never really know if you're on the right path or not.
Not to say you have to have all the answers,
you may course correct along the way.
But you need to have a plan.
Lemme ask you a question, when is the last time
you sat down and you asked yourself,
all right, where do I wanna be five years from now?
How 'bout 10 years from now?
15 years from now?
What am I wearing, where am I working?
What does my work day look like?
Do I have a family?
If you don't answer these questions,
then you are being reactive to life,
and you don't have a plan.
Here's the thing though, I've been there,
I mean I couldn't talk about this at this level,
or this level of passion, if I didn't know about it.
I was there, I was in the wrong job,
at one point I was in the wrong relationship,
I was in the wrong career path.
I was not fulfilled, and don't get me wrong,
I don't regret any of it,
because I wouldn't be who I am today, with experiences,
and the successful accomplishments that I have,
that I've had, if I hadn't gone down that path.
But then at one point I decided, I'm gonna make a change.
And change is really hard,
and so this is where I have the one thing
that you can do to actually make a change in your life.
The one thing that I did
was I kicked off a 45-Day Beast Mode Challenge.
That moment, when I realized I was in the wrong path,
I was in the wrong job, I needed to make a change,
this actually happened back in 2010, I quit my job,
I quit my finance job,
and I finally decided to start a company.
And I, anyway, I built that company,
we raised a bunch of capital, we sold it,
the rest is history but that's not the point of this.
The point is I did a 45 day challenge,
and I said, "All right, I'm gonna figure this out."
And not only am I just gonna go start a company,
I'm gonna figure out what I want out of my life.
And I actually mapped out, like here's what I want,
here's where I want it,
here's how I'm gonna go down that path,
and a whole bunch of things unlocked for me.
So to recap, these are the three reasons
why you're feeling stuck in your career.
Number one, you don't know what you're fighting for.
Number two, you're on the wrong career path.
And number three, you may not have a plan.
And the way to get unstuck, the way I did it
was I did a 45 day challenge.
The problem is you may not know
how to do a 45 day challenge.
This is why I created a guide for you.
If you follow the link below the video, or swipe up,
or you go to our profile, there will be a link
that teaches you how to do
these 45 day challenges the right way.
I'll give you the step-by-step guide on how to do these,
I'll give you my three secrets
on how to avoid the pitfalls,
and you can use that 45 day period
to actually do a challenge of figuring out
what the heck you want out of life.
And by the way, extra plug, if you really wanna figure out
what you want outta life, and you wanna build a life plan,
be sure to download my book off of Amazon,
"How to Punch the Sunday Jitters in the Face".
It's got a five star review on Amazon,
and I just found out apparently
it's an international best seller on Amazon,
I don't know what that means, but sounds cool, I'll take it.
So just to wrap up here, I've been there,
and if you're feeling this, I totally get it.
Here's what you need to do, download the guide,
check out the book, and most importantly,
if you like this video, hit the like button,
but sure to subscribe, and hit the bell icon,
and share it with your fellow high achievers.
And remember, everyone needs a plan for their life,
but yours is gonna be "Unstoppable".
I'm TK, and I'll see you next Sunday.
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