If it's true that we reap what we sow, then what are you going to reap in your career in the future? When we start working the way we want to today, we build meaningful and sustainable careers tomorrow.

1. Why Your
Career Has
to Fit for
You Today,
Tomorrow
Megan Leatherman | www.meganleatherman.com
NOT

2. Many of us were told that we have to
work incredibly hard, climb the
professional ladder, and that we'll rest
after we've worked 40+ years and have
made enough money to retire.
This logic says that we have to sacrifice
everything today in order to reap
rewards tomorrow.
Hustling to Get
Ahead
Megan Leatherman | www.meganleatherman.com

3. Here's what I've seen to be true for
myself and countless others:
- When I make the time to value my well-
being today, I reap better rewards
tomorrow
- When I live my days the way I want to
live my life, this awesome thing happens: I
live the life I want to live.
This Doesn't
Work for Me
Megan Leatherman | www.meganleatherman.com

4. "Delayed gratification," and all that has a
place in our worklives, for sure.
But how many of you are hating each day
in the hopes that something will change
when you're much, much older?
If we reap what we sow, then millions of
us are going to reap:
- exhaustion
- hopelessness
- sickness
I Know, I Know...
Megan Leatherman | www.meganleatherman.com

5. If your life IS your day today, how's it
looking?
How does that statement make you feel?
What, if anything, do you want to change
in order to get closer to the life that's right
for you?
Annie Dillard
Said it Best:
"How we spend our days is, of
course, how we spend our lives."
Megan Leatherman | www.meganleatherman.com

6. What's one thing you're hustling for today
because you want it in the future?
For example, are you busting your ass in a
job you hate in the hopes that you'll be
promoted in the future and then love your
work?
Is that realistic?
Could you actually have more demands
placed on you after that promotion?
What One
Thing?
Megan Leatherman | www.meganleatherman.com

7. Whatever your one thing is, stop waiting for
it to be created out of thin air.
For example, if you're getting sick all of the
time because you work too much, that will
not magically change after you're promoted.
Spend your day today the way you want to
spend your life.
If you know you need to rest, take a sick day.
Do what you have to do to make your career
work for you...
today.
Don't Wait for It
Megan Leatherman | www.meganleatherman.com

8. If you sow
healthy seeds
each day,
beautiful
things will
grow.
Megan Leatherman, MS, PHR
Career Coach & HR Consultant
www.meganleatherman.com