The 4 Stages of Owning Your Career and Lifestyle Agency

Identify the stages involved in Owning Agency.

Creating Career and Lifestyle Agency means you have decided you are committed and vested in owning your authority to creating the path presently most aligned path for yourself. Sovereignty in choice and directions, you are claiming agency over your career, lifestyle and/or business trajectory and journey.

Sovereign to be communal.

Individuals who operate from a space of knowing the resources they have to offer and how to employ those resources and skills in their environment to produce certain outcomes, are some of the most valuable members of society and keynote members in community.

A Little Background:

• What is AGENCY? 

Agency is the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential. One's agency is one's independent capability or ability to act on one's will. (Wikipedia)

The "4 Stages to Own Your Agency" document outlines the 4 stages you cross on the path to Owning Your Agency: 

1) Initiate Stage -- Everything Starts Here. You Start Here. Even with ambiguity. Start. Brainstorm in a Google Document about what interest you, what options you have, where you have been, where you would like to go. Then, outline a course of actions and time and cost. Then decide and make the decision to start. Sometimes, this works in you starting first, without being so sure, but movement will provide the momentum which will then produce clarity for you. Stagnancy will further feed inertia. Not fully decided. Start doing a thing! As you act out, in action ... it will become clear to you, your body will speak if that path sits right or aligns with you. Whichever works for you, sometimes its starting, sometimes its deciding then starting in either direction, the start actions will give way to clarity of decision.

2) Maintain Stage -- In motion, you have started, now maintaining movement, maintaining action is key here. Managing certifications if you must, maintaining growth of knowledge and improvement. Maintaining flow and efficiency, is step number 2. Maintaining also begets consistency, to maintain means to be consistent, no matter what it is that is being done, you can only maintain by consistently doing what is needed to remain in the place of achievement and success, unless systems for automations are developed.

3)Pivot Stage -- at the point of pivot, you have maintained and that maintained course of action has now expired or is no longer yielding the level of success once delivered of that consistency, now you must pivot. After a plateau, a pivot is required, after a failure a pivot is required. After prolonged maintenance of success, a pivot may be required to refocused and achieve new goals . Pivoting it is a natural step in owning your agency. Those who can identify the need to pivot then follow through with the steps to pivot are at step three in the process.

4) Develop - Development Stage--Development is key to owning your capability. Development shows dedication to maintain your stance - personally and professionally.

It's possible to occupy more than one stage, simultaneously. This document with help you to discover what stage you are in along identification of implications of each stage.  It's important to know where you are within the 4 stages as knowing will help you to gain clarity in mapping out the next steps for your "Creating Your Agency" journey.

Identifying where you are to know where you are going. What are you identifying? :

• The details of each stage -- Stage 1- 4. Knowing where you are helps you to know where you are going. I have outlined below, indicators of each stage.
  • Initiate: you are at the beginning of realization or knowing action must take place, the start of the journey. A decision to start. This may begin with uncertainty, requiring you to narrow down chose of action, method of action, options in front of you that you can choose upon. this is how you identify the state of initiative-- you know something needs to be done, you are brainstorming what can be done, you are taking inventory of the options you have. you are mapping out a step-by-step process of what needs to be done.
  • Maintaining - You have imitated, you have decided for the most part. You are in actions, moving. You have achieved some goals, or you have defined definitive steps to take for a particular end result. You are taking steps in the outline direction. you are doing what it takes and being consistent in actions to achieve desired results or maintain desired results. Are you consistently engaged in action that is progressive, that is ritualistic, that is scheduled, that is habitual?
  • Pivot -- have you been consistently maintaining toward a goal or end result? an now it's time to achieve another level, or go in a different direction? To achieve another goal unrelated, or related to the previous? Have you been on a course of action in momentum (maintain) consistently and desired results have not yet been achieved? Have you reached a plateau and achieved all that can be done at this currently level? Now new strategy, process or direction is needed to go the extra mile in reaching your desired outcomes. These are all indicative of the pivot stage.
  • Develop -- This encompasses momentum, consistency and maintenance. Sometimes Development means consistency in taking inventory to see what may need to be initiated, actively maintaining and also taking inventory to see if pivot is required. Development takes place when pivoting as well.
•  Identifying which stage (s) you currently occupy -- this allows for you to smoothing transitions or enact the needed stage in order to produce likelihood of success.
• Mastery of a stage -- routine, ritual, repetitive. Sucess

I hope this article has helped you identify which stage of owning your agency you are in and what steps you may need to take. I further hope your continued success, grow and sovereignty.

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