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The first step in planning is to take stock of your abilities. A forty-five-year-old accountant with a good job must have developed some excellent skills and personal traits: sticking to procedure, juggling checks and balances, accuracy reliability, setting emotions aside, and so on. There are bound to be many, and your first task is to write them down.
The second step is to identify your passions. What do you really feel strongly about? Is it model making, teaching, being in charge, your love of numbers, people, avoiding people, computers, or perhaps a sport? It can be one thing or many things. Write them down.
Third, try to match your skills and qualifications with your passions. For example, if you love teaching, can you realistically move into the teaching of accounting? If not, why not? There are lots of teaching environments; for example, most communities have adult education classes; colleges have extension programs; there are trade schools; or you could start your own tutoring program.
Once you’ve identified a way to match your skills and qualities to an objective, you can reduce your overall plan to realistic, tactical steps. For example, propose to the people in charge of community education in your area that an accounting course for the next session would meet community needs, perhaps a class on how to determine family cash flow and eliminate waste.
If you can take these steps, you can take control of your life.
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