Sports figures have the benefit of deciding how long they want to work for the teams that they are on.

Their agents pursue the next opportunity and at the end of each contract, a reassessment takes place.

But most of us never reassess what we have accomplished or what we want to do next.

And we don’t place a dollar value on our skills.

Become a free agent and change that up.

• When a player goes through salary arbitration, the arbitrator generally assesses what players with similar skills and accomplishments are worth in the marketplace.   We need to do the same thing.  Discover what people with your skills and experience are making and average their salaries together to get to your real worth.
• Working in a job and never checking to see if there is a better position will ultimately lead to unhappiness and possibly unemployment.  Every year, take a week or more to get away from the workaday world and ask this question:  “Do I want to continue what I am doing in this job for another year?”  If the answer is yes, commit in your mind to giving 100% for the next 12 months.  If the answer is I don’t know or no – look for alternatives while you are employed.
• When assessing what you want to do don’t be limited by your education or skills.  Dream on.  Catch the dream and follow it. You can always get the education and/or skills to pursue it but without a dream, you’re just going to wind up in another job.  Life is too short to spend the majority of your day doing anything but feeling great.

When we become a free agent in our careers, we tend to confirm our current commitments or get the motivation to pursue something else.

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