Develop yourself # 2

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Transformation Truth #2: Either you're doing work you truly enjoy or you aren't.


"All of the animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it."
--Samuel Butler

Most of us know that our life's purpose is more than just a paycheck, and that a life of meaning is not limited to a life of means.

Yet many of us suffer the self-imposed misery of doing unfulfilling work simply to make ends meet. We take jobs we don't love by rationalizing to ourselves that we "have to." In this society, though, there are very few have-tos. You can choose to do anything you want to with your time. I ask you, is what you are choosing to do with it something that you truly enjoy? Do you get happily lost in your work on a regular basis? Does time seem to slip by because you are completely immersed in doing something you love? If you look at your life and cannot answer with a resounding, wholehearted "Yes!" to these questions, then you know it's time for a change. It's time you ask yourself a question you've been avoiding for too long: Is what I'm doing what I really want to be doing?

Of course, this is a tough question for most people because they don't know whatthey want to be doing. Worse yet, they have stopped actively looking. They've settled into a job and told themselves the biggest lie in working America: "I'll just stay here for a year or two until I figure out what I really want to do." People who say this always end up a year or two down the road still scratching their head. They may have a better résumé, but they still haven't got a clue.

Here's my advice to you: If you're not in your dream job or career right now, you should be actively and urgently looking for ways to get into it. And if you don't know what your dream job or career is, don't waste a lot of your precious time in any job or career that is clearly not it. There's nothing worse than squandering years of your life doing something simply because you don't know what else to do.

If you are bored, restless, depressed, angry, underutilized, unrewarded, unrecognized, or unchallenged in your current job or career, it's time for you to admit it--and change it. I recommend that you open your calendar right now, look forward exactly six months, and schedule in a secret code: QMJT. That meansQuit My Job Today! What I'm suggesting is that if you don't LOVE your job, you make a commitment to yourself RIGHT NOW, an internal resolution that you'll bust your butt for six months to find a new career -- that no matter what, in six months you'll be moving on and starting something you care about. Isn't your time, and your life energy, worth it?

Of course, maybe you are one of the three in ten Americans who report being passionate about their jobs. Maybe you are passionate about your work, you believe in the purpose of what you're doing, and you enjoy the tasks and the relationships you have at work. In that case, here's my question to you: Are you showing up as "passionately present" as you can each day, and are you lighting up your coworkers with energy and excitement and passion for what you are doing together. In my mind, leadership has a lot to do about firing ourselves up about a cause or mission, and firing other people up about it as well as you work collaboratively to make it happen. I talk a lot about leadership at my events and it's something I've dedicated a lot of my life to.

To think more deeply about how you feel about work, grab your journal and complete the sentences below.

Transformational Turning Points:

□ The way I really feel about what I'm doing is...

□ The real reason I'm doing what I'm doing now is because...

□ If I continue doing what I'm doing, five years from now I'm going to be the type of person who...

□ Whenever I talk about the way I spend my time, I always wish I'd spend more time...

□ The things that completely absorb my attention and interest when I get into them are...

□ To truly enjoy my work and lead other people more effectively, I would have to...

Next week's Transformation Truth will likely rattle you. (It's about who you are being). Stay tuned. Until then, stay focused on taking action on this week's Truth.

As you move forward, may the gates to possibility always swing wide open for you.

Thank you for reading , do not forget to comment on my post and like it .

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That's a great post - thank you! And I just put QMJT on my calendar. Time for some massive action :)

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Hey where were you 12 years ago. Sometimes we have to do what need to be done to support our families and not always what we want to do. It was hard for me to do what I truly loved. I found WA and am have a great time learning and meeting a lot of great people. What a great place to be. Thank you Massmir

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Thought-provoking post, Masamir!
Ade

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Thanks for sharing this! Awesome insight and very helpful. I happen to be one of those three in ten Americans, but know many people who struggle with identifying what is that they want to do in life. I plan to share your thoughts with each of them, in hopes that it might set them on the right path to identify their own passion.

Thank you all for your nice comments.

Have been one of those people in the past and now is my time to get on and do it, enjoyed your post thank you for sharing words of wisdom

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I agree with you. I like what I am doing now (my regular job) but there are certain things that I don't. I am trying to build my online business because I like it much better than my regular job and another reason is to be financially independent.

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understand, plan, do, review....keep on track and understand why you chose the track in the first place- is what I try to do...I must say that without writing it down and reviewing it regularly, I stray as quick as you can blink....thanks for posting, Andy

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Too true. I am one of those people who don't hate my job - thank goodness. However, I do want to run my own online business so my family and I can get off the roller coaster ride we are on. Never enough time to do what we really want..... I never want to completely retire - I want to do something on my own terms for as long as I enjoy it - and provide useful information and help to others to do the same! I found my passion just yesterday - thanks to Ed Cronin. Here is the link if you would like to read about it: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/berny-w/blog/3-months-in-wa-and-still-no-niche/comment/1463178#

Cheers
Berny

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Thanks for putting it out there!

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Perpetual thought! Lot's of material to think over.

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