Find Passion for your Work
Avoid the 11 Costly Mistakes Career-Seekers Make
Without Knowing it
by
Bill Dueease
Copyright © 2004
Most people spend approximately 25% to
over 67% of their waking hours working. Eventually, most everyone will
want to work in a career that they enjoy and are paid well enough to live
a prosperous life. Yet, far too many people end up being miserable in
their job and find themselves stuck in a career that they did not choose.
People then get discouraged, produce less, and become disgruntled. Unfortunately,
people then blame themselves or those they work for, when in truth there
is rarely anything wrong with them or the people they work for. Instead,
maybe their job selection process is flawed which causes them to fall
into the wrong positions.
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You probably follow the trial and error path to select your job or career.
You take jobs that appear to be the best opportunities and try them out.
You adjust to what your bosses and the companies want in hopes of advancement.
You eventually discover that you are stuck in jobs or careers that you
really don't like. You might switch to other jobs and try them out. But
you continue to use the trial and error selection process and you eventually
end up in the same unhappy position. You will want to avoid using the
trial and error selection process.
Many people feel obligated to follow a career to please others or that
they feel they “should” pursue. Spousal influence, peer pressure,
family tradition, parental pressure, societal pressure, and other outside
influences are frequently allowed to dictate career paths. In these situations,
you end up working to suit the needs, wants and expectations of someone
other than yourself and deep conflicts arise. These conflicts cause you
stress, unhappiness and income reduction. You end up working at a position
you do not like and eventually disappoint the people you wanted to please
in the first place.
You have your own inner wants, needs, and feelings. Many times it is easier
to follow how others view you than to look for and accept the truth about
yourself. The only way you will know which career is best for you is to
focus first on YOU to discover what YOU want and what is important to
YOU.
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Most people are passionate about something, but have suppressed their
feelings for a number of reasons. You will want to discover what you are
passionate about so you can find the position that will allow you to feel
fulfilled. Your passions are always with you and you probably do not recognize
or understand them. You will know you are passionate about something when
you become naturally excited just thinking about it and even more excited
about doing it.
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Most people do not take the time to discover what their desires and priorities
are in life. They seem to just go with the flow and hope that they are
heading in the right direction. Yet, the one big reason people feel so
frustrated while working is that it conflicts with their true desires
and priorities. An example of a desire is: wanting to work outdoors with
people. An example of a priority is: placing your family first.
Everyone has his or her own value system. Unfortunately, people rarely
look into their own values and instead frequently accept the values imposed
by the companies they work for. Just look at the damage caused to the
many employees of Enron, World Com, Global Crossing and others whose beliefs
did not agree with the misguided values of the CEO's and higher executives.
Were all of the employees misguided? Certainly not. Yet, most failed to
discover their very honest values, and were penalized anyway, because
they conflicted with the values of the leaders of the companies.
The most productive and enjoyable position for you is the one that comes
naturally and is easier to do because it fits your talents and skill levels.
You will enjoy working, be much more productive, and generate more quality
results when you maximize the use of your talents at work. Your increased
productivity and higher quality results will attract greater rewards to
you.
Unfortunately, many people who actually know what their ideal income positions
really are choose not to pursue them. Either they feel guilty pursuing
them, or they feel that they are unattainable, or more frequently they
do not know how to get them. You want to find or create the position that
will allow you to fulfill your passions, desires, values and talents.
Now you can create the position to suit you, instead of taking a position
and adjusting to it.
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People are led to believe that they can easily look within themselves
and discover themselves on their own. Self-help books and assessment tests
claim that reading the books or taking the tests will reveal all you need
to get your ideal career. Yet, both methods fall very short of actually
getting to the truth. Discovering what you really want, what your true
talents or values are is not a self-help process.
We humans cannot see our face without using a mirror or a photographic
image. Just as you must look into a mirror to see what you really look
like, you must have another person act as your objective mirror to see
what you really want to do and be in life.
Your other-person-mirror must be totally devoted to you and must be able
to actively assist you in seeing within, where you may have been reluctant
to look before. They must provide you an objective, non-critical mirror.
Seek out and get someone to be your objective mirror to discover the truths
about yourself, to find or create your ideal position. Career coaches
are trained, motivated and focused on assisting you in becoming “The
Worlds Leading Expert on You.”
Devise a program to attain your very distinct target positions. You will
not be trying to “get a job” like so many others. You will be
able to focus on getting a very specific income positions. You will not
waste time, money, effort or emotional energy on pursuing unwanted position.
You will want to recruit your ideal positions, even if they appear not
to be available. Why? Because you have now become an extremely valuable
and in essence, very marketable source of productivity. You will be very
surprised how easy it is to actually get the position you love. Bosses
prefer people who are enthusiastic about a job because they love it, and
customers are easily attracted to professionals or business owners who
love their work.
Many people think that because they finally found the position they are
passionate about, that they will want to stay in it forever. The position
that is ideal today will probably not be ideal in a couple of years. Why?
Because your passions, desires, priorities and needs will most likely
change with time. Your values, or at least your understanding of your
values might also change. As they change, your ideal career positions
will also change. You will want to continually keep a pulse on yourself
to determine your new priorities to reshape your career positions to what
is important to you in each stage of your life.
Provided as an educational service by Bill Dueease of The Coach Connection,
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