All spreadsCareer and profession

Prospects and Goal

Twelve cards as a ladder: where you stand, what is actually possible, your strength, what is missing, who hinders, and the picture at three months, six and a year.

Take it for the full year-long career picture, not for a single near-term goal.

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How to read it

The ladder is read upward. The bottom row is the starting point: your position, the goal as you see it, what is truly possible and what you are already strong in. The distance between the second and third card shows how far your plan has drifted from reality. The middle row is the forces around you: the lack, the help, the drag and the main risk; speed is decided here. The top row is time: three months, six, a year and the outcome. Read it as a story, not a verdict: a year stronger than six months means slow but sure growth, so do not quit in the fifth month.

Positions

  1. Where you stand

    Your real standing in your work, with nothing added and nothing written off.

  2. The goal as you see it

    What you want to achieve, in the way you yourself put it today.

  3. What is truly possible

    The result that is reachable with your present resources and timeframe.

  4. Your strength

    Your working advantage, the one others notice long before you do.

  5. What is missing

    The skill, contact, money or resolve without which the goal stays a plan.

  6. Who will help

    The person or circumstance that moves you further than your own effort can.

  7. What drags

    What slows the movement: people, paperwork, your perfectionism or lack of time.

  8. The main risk

    Where the whole thing can collapse and the sign that warns you in advance.

  9. Three months

    What changes within the next quarter if you continue at your present pace.

  10. Six months

    The position formed by the middle of the road and what becomes clear by then.

  11. A year

    Where you are in a year and at what price that result comes.

  12. What it becomes

    What your occupation finally turns into: a life's work, a trade or a finished stage.

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