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The Connection between Spirituality and Career
Defining Your Career Is an Inside Job
How often have you heard that defining your career is an inside job? If so, or even if you haven’t, ask yourself a few honest questions before you read any further.
A Few Honest Questions
- Are you now looking for work out of desperation?
- Are you more concerned about getting a job because you have the skills, or because the job genuinely appeals to you?
- Are you applying for everything you think you might qualify for, out of “guilt”?
- Are you doing everything the free career gurus on the internet say to do, but feel deep inside that something is still missing?
- Did you take their advice, get the job, and end up wanting to leave after the first week or month?
- Are you blaming “the economy,” your boss, your co-workers, or your spouse for why the right work still hasn’t shown up?
Blame Keeps You at Square One
If we’re perpetually blaming the economy or other people for not finding our dream work — or any work at all — guess what happens? Correct: square one. By defining our dream work from an inner perspective instead, we literally create enormous possibilities.
It Can Bring Up Real Feelings
It never ceases to amaze me when I witness clients make the shift to knowing, without a doubt, where they’re going next in their careers — and the confidence that comes with it. But I must confess: not everyone is ready in their life cycle to make this shift. It can bring up regret, guilt, resistance, and even anger at having to look within for the answers.
My question to you is: are you ready?
Three steps to start the journey
Relax, and decide you’re going to discover now what you may have spent a lifetime eluding — Career Happiness.
Write down every task, skill, type of person, working environment, product, or industry from past jobs that made you feel bad — down to the type of chair you sat in.
For each item, decide your preference — not necessarily the literal opposite. Complete honesty is essential, or this won’t work.
Congratulations! You have begun your inner journey to career happiness. This will be vital information to use in developing a career direction.
Authored by Shell Mendelson.