~How to Find Work You Truly Love~ This was originally written by Nadia Goodman. It is a good read for a monday. There are a few lessons about ~relating and ~keeping the right type of company of friends and people in it. Do well to list your own unique lessons from it and feel free to share it with us or someone. If you stayed on to read this post, you probably dont like your job, and you probably have at least a shred of hope that if the stars aligned, you could. But finding fulfilling work isnt something that you should leave up to chance – it takes effort and action. Finding work you love really begins and ends with your surroundings, says Scott Dinsmore, founder of Live Your Legend, a site that inspires and prepares people to build careers they love. Spend your time with people who inspire you and people who refuse to let you give up. While finding work you truly love might seem like a vague or daunting endeavor, you can take concrete steps to find that kind of fulfillment. These five steps are a great place to start: 1. Surround yourself with people who love their work. Misery may love company, but it also breeds more misery. If the people youre surrounded by dont like their work, thats going to bring you down, Dinsmore says. Itll limit your creativity and infect your ideas. Don’t shut out unhappy friends, just make a conscious effort to seek positive company. Think of one person you know who inspires you and spend more time with them by inviting them to lunch or an after work yoga class. If you surround yourself with people who are truly living differently, it changes your belief about what’s possible, Dinsmore says. 2. Work to improve your strengths and talents. Fulfillment increases as your skills improve because you’re able to utilize your talents to their full potential. Its really important to spend your time getting better at something, Dinsmore says. The more time we spend on things were good at -- getting better at them -- that’s where fulfillment really comes from. Identify your strengths by noticing what comes easily to you or what you do because its fun, then work hard to hone those skills. You wont be an expert right off the bat, but if you take a little bit of natural talent and apply a lot of effort, you’ll get there. 3. Identify the impact you want to have on the world. People who love their work typically feel a sense of purpose -- a sense that their work has a meaningful impact on the world. We all want to move the needle in some way, Dinsmore says. Thats what really fuels people. As you choose the impact you want to have, focus on what you actually care about, not what you think you should care about. A lot of people are working toward a definition of success that is meaningless to them, Dinsmore says. They’re climbing a ladder to nowhere. Be honest about what really matters to you, then work toward that. 4. Learn as much as you can about the life you want. When you consider a potential career or industry, research what its like day-to-day and what it really takes to succeed. A lot of people assume that a job is glamorous, Dinsmore says. They dont have a clue whats really involved. Look behind the scenes to figure out what your field’s experts were doing when they were still unknown. Find role models who are willing to talk with you about their career paths in as much detail as possible, or learn from public resources like books, blogs, panel discussions, and TED talks. Not only will that tell you how to succeed, it will tell you if you want to. 5. Try, and try again. There is, sadly, no magic bullet for building a career you love or choosing the kind of company you want to start. Finding the right match is a process of trial and error. Low-risk ways to test your options, such as shadowing someone for a day, will help you find what you actually enjoy in practice. As you look for work you love, you may have to shake up your life, step out of your comfort zone, make a few mistakes. That’s okay. Treat life as one big experiment or a series of mini-experiments, Dinsmore says. If you stay curious and keep trying, you’ll land where you need to be. So did you learn something that applies to holding a healthy relationship too? What is it you learnt? Share with us as your summary could be an insight of understanding to someone who reads it. Kindly do so with a comment.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:16:09 +0000
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