Evan Carmichael helps an assistant accountant at an oil exploration firm write a personal objective statement. He argues that passion beyond money should drive your career, then walks through four steps: reflect on why you chose the field, identify what skills or impact you want, match that to what your employer offers, and write a statement that guides your daily work and future moves.
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Hi, I'm Evan Carmichael. Welcome to another edition of Ask Evan. In today's episode, I'm going to answer a question from one of my Facebook readers, Valdir, who wrote in asking about how to create a personal objective statement. So he wrote in saying, "Hi Evan, I've started my work as an assistant accountant in an oil exploration company." I have to write my personal objectives and personal goal that may be beneficial to the company. The problem is I'm stuck. I don't know where to start, and I'm asking for some hints on how I can start. So thanks for the question, Valdir. I think, you know, most of the time I'm helping entrepreneurs, but in your situation, I think that the question, it can also relate to entrepreneurs. For you, what I'd start thinking about is why are you an accountant, or why are you interested in the oil industry, right? What gets you really excited about this? Hopefully it's not just about the money. There's got to be something beyond that that drives it. Maybe you really love numbers, you love helping people, you love the excitement of the oil industry. Whatever it is, start to tap into that passion because that will help guide your career as you go forward. Because you know what you're really excited about and what you want to hopefully accomplish with your career, and you can take a job path or an entrepreneurial path that gets you closer to, to, you know, what you're really excited about. So too many people wake up and they go to a job that they hate, right? That's, that's most of the world. The world. You know, they wake up and they go to a job that they hate. So as entrepreneurs, we have the chance to make our own job and create our own destiny. But also, as an employee, you have the chance to, you know, work towards a career path that is more exciting for you. And that starts with really understanding what you're excited about, right? If you don't have a personal goal or you don't really know what excites you, then, then it's hard, right? You're not probably going to have a really exciting, passionate, fulfilled life. So you want to start around that, like, why did you become interested in accounting? Or why did you want to apply at an oil company? Versus another type of company. What drew you to that opportunity? And hopefully it's something more than money, something that you can really tap into a deep passion of yours of helping people or learning a specific skill set or learning more about an industry. So that's where I would start. Forget about the business that you're at for the moment. Just think about yourself because this is a long-term thing for you, right? You're gonna have the rest of your life to work towards accomplishing you know, what's on this paper. So you want your personal goals to tap into the deep passion of yours. And then you think about the business that you're at now, you know, this could be a long-term, forever opportunity, or it could be something that's shorter term, and having your passion clearly laid out will help you figure that out. But then once you know what you're really strongly passionate about, you can think about, okay, well, how can I apply this at the company that I'm currently at? And maybe there's a really strong fit, maybe this company can solve all my needs and I'm going to be happy here for the rest of my life. Or maybe the company can only help me in certain areas of things that I want to accomplish with my career. And if that's the case, then that's great, it may be a short-term, you know, couple years placement for you. But just write down the things that you hope to gain from this company, and you're going to help them with some things and they're going to help you as well. Hopefully that helps you. I think it's great for entrepreneurs to go through the exercise too. What do you want to accomplish as an entrepreneur? What do you hope to grow and learn? Hopefully it's more than just, "I want to make a lot of money." You want to have an impact, you want to do something you're really passionate about, if that's being creative or programming or whatever it is. You want to be doing work where you're learning, growing, and helping people. And coming up with your own personal objective statement can be really beneficial to help guide your career or your business. So hopefully that helped. Uh, if you guys liked the video, please give it a thumbs up below. I love seeing those come in. That makes me want to create more of these videos for you guys. And if you have a question or you want to leave a comment, you have something to say about this video, I'd love to hear it if you want to leave a comment underneath the video. So thank you, and we'll see you on the next episode. Thank you.
