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Article snippet: Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter. The Smarter Living team emails readers once a week with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Monday morning. It happens to all of us: We hit a point in our careers where we start to wonder, Where is this all leading? What’s next? Am I even doing what I want to be doing? Should I quit everything and try to become a SoulCycle instructor?! (O.K., maybe that one is just me.) Thankfully, Adam Bryant, who writes The Times’s Corner Office column and has interviewed hundreds of chief executives over the years, was around last week to answer questions about jump-starting your career. Below are some of my favorites of his pieces of wisdom, but really, whether you’re at the beginning of your career or decades in and looking for a change, the entire Q. and A. is worth your time. I’ve been at the same job for a while and it’s going well, but how do I figure out a broader vision for my life and work toward it? There’s really just one way to figure things out: “Deep, serious and extended reflection, maybe with a blank sheet of paper or two (no screens!),” Adam said. He suggests being honest about what it is you truly want in life — what kind of lifestyle, how much money you want to make, what excites you — and working backward from there. Adam also notes this advice from Jeff Weiner, the chief executive of LinkedIn: “You can’t realize your goal if it’s not defined. It soun... Link to the full article to read more