There is widespread dissatisfaction with jobs and lives that people are leading these days. Some folks want to blame that on the direction the world is taking. Unfortunately we are splintered as a race and the “right direction” for one group is not going to match the “right direction” for another, so we have strife and conflict. This is part of the whole terrorist thing that is evolving in the world right now.
Target, Goal, Focus, Path, Bullseye
But we can’t solve the world’s problems in one article, so we have to try to focus more on individuals. Why are people dissatisfied with their jobs or lives? When you are searching for a job, how do you go about it? If you’re like most people you will open up a paper to the want ads or put up a profile on “Monster” or “Careerbuilder” or “The Ladders.” And after posting a profile you look for jobs that match your qualifications.
But what are your qualifications, or more importantly why do you have those particular qualifications? Possibly because of a decision you made at 16 or 17 to go to trade school or technical school or the armed forces, or college or some combination of environmental factors. But you were 16 or 17 when you started this journey and you didn’t really know what you wanted out of life or what you were passionate about. (Maybe you did, but if you did you were the exception, not the rule.)
So we get cornered into job choice by decision made while young, or by experiences gained in jobs we may not have really wanted. You found a job in the paper that you could do, so you applied and got it, now ten years later that path has molded what you do, what you can do and, to an extent, who you are.
But it’s not too late to change, you just have to decide that you are ready and then take a weekend or a two week hiatus or whatever and think “What am I passionate about, what would I really like to do” and then figure out how to make a living out of that thing, and suddenly, maybe for the first time in years, you are in alignment with what you are meant to do.
Is it easy, is it simple? No, but if we all start getting more satisfied with what we are doing, maybe that will make the big picture for the world a bit easier as well. It certainly is easier to get along when everyone at the table is happy in their own lives, and what we do is a huge factor in who we are.
Are you ready to make a change?
In order to make progress in your life you have to commit to making change. If you don’t make changes tomorrow is going to be very similar to yesterday, with the exception of you being a day older. Do you really want to improve your situation? A quick way to do that is by visiting The 10 Minute Transformation
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