Archive for the ‘Career Change’ Category

 

Our careers help to define us. When we first meet someone we often ask: what do we do? Our job gives us a sense of status, which is why it can have a devastating effect if we are made redundant.

However, it can be a positive time, offering the option to review where we are and more importantly where we want to go. It could be:

• the chance to spend more time with our family
• a great time to consider choices
• the ideal time to start up your own business

Taking time out.
Why not take the opportunity to enjoy life a little. Spend more time with your family and friends, take a long holiday and explore places you’ve always wanted to visit, or learn a new skill – there are a lot of training incentives around right now.

New beginnings.
You could take the time to reflect upon what you really want to do. We often drift into a career because it was our best subject at school, or because our parents guided us into a particular direction or maybe it was because this job seemed interesting at the time and you just stuck with it. As we go through life our priorities, passions and values change and so might the ideal job!

Entrepreneurial spirit.
Always wanted to work for yourself? With the demise of the “job for life” and security that used to come from working for an organisation, more of us are seeking ways to start up our own businesses. Many of the current successful businesses started out in the previous recession. So yes it may be difficult times right now but with the right product or service it could be a great time to flourish.

As Napoleon Hill stated “Opportunity often shows up as misfortune or temporary defeat”.

So stay positive, look at all of your options rather than just continuing with what you have always done and see if the time is right to change direction.

 

The Art of Successful Living is to include all the elements or pillars of success as a foundation for your ideal life, and to find the right blend or mix of each element to determine your own personal level of success.  Here we look at Pillar 5.

 

 

Pillar 5 – Fulfilling work and contribution 

Finding work that uses our strengths and talents to their best use will help us to be effortlessly successful in what we do. Success is easier when you find yourself “in the flow” rather than trying to swim upstream. Aligning this with our core values will bring us the fulfilment we desire. When we work within our own value system we can avoid the stress of being in conflict internally. Furthermore, by doing meaningful work that can give something back to our communities helps us derive a sense of purpose and contribution. Therefore aligning what we do with who we are gives us purpose, passion and a sense of meaning.

 

 

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