Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

Create Your Own Future
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question is this: “What level of knowledge, skills, and ability will
you require at your next job in order to continue to earn the kind
of money that you want to earn in the future?”
If you don’t think about this question in advance, you may be
forced to think about it when your time has run out and the ques-
tion is forced upon you.
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YOUR NEW CAREER
After audience members have thought about what their next job is
going to be, I then ask the second question,
“What is your next career
going to be?”
What entirely new field, industry, business, or line of
work are you going to be in 5 to 10 years from now?
According to employment experts, a person starting work to-
day will have an average of 14 or 15 full-time jobs, each lasting
two years or more, over the course of a working lifetime. He or she
will also have as many as five different careers, in completely dif-
ferent fields, each of which will require new kinds of knowledge
and different skills.
Much of what you know about your current work will be obso-
lete within five years. Because of rapid changes taking place in every
area, your existing store of knowledge, information, ideas, and skills
will be of little value. These will have no relevance or application to
the job market and the economy of the future. You will need new
knowledge and skills if you want to survive and thrive in an increas-
ingly competitive society.
This is why Peter Drucker said, “The only skill that will not be-
come obsolete in the years ahead is the ability to learn new skills.”
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