From the course: Managing Your Design Career
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Overcoming roadblocks
- Henry Ford said, obstacles are those frightful things that you see when you take your eyes off your goal. So we've already talked about the importance of setting your career goal. You will hit obstacles along the way, but if you keep your focus on what you're trying to achieve, you'll be able to surmount some of those obstacles. So what are some of the obstacles that you should watch out for on your career journey as you aim to make this next step? There's internal roadblocks and there's external roadblocks. Roadblocks keep you from moving forward, but there is a way through them. So as it relates to internal roadblocks, you may have a fear of the unknown. From within you, you may have set your goal, but you're hesitant to either move forward, look foolish, or worse yet, you're afraid that you'll fail. It's important that you understand that that level of kind of knot in your stomach is actually a good thing. If you can embrace that, that's what should help you to move forward. It…
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