3 simple concepts to getting employed, and having fun at it
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Too many people are worried if there’s a job out there for them. Too many people are worried if they’ll ever get employed. Too many people are worried what if they don’t like the job.
One of the greatest satisfactions in life is to do what you love to do. Ask any of the most successful people around the world why they like their work and they’ll most likely reply. “What work?”
What they probably meant by that is that they do not consider their job a work at all! They’re having the time of their life, doing something they love to do, creating something that they whole heartedly believe in and doing it with fervor. Furthermore I don’t think they’re really bothered on whether or not they’re getting paid to do it.
However dream jobs are hard to come by which is why I like the concepts that I’m going to share.
Inspired by the hedgehog concept by Jim Collins in his book Good to Great:
1. Talent.
It’s been said that each one of us has been given a talent or a gift that unravels the purpose for your life, and sharing it with the world. True in a way. Looking, what were you good at? What do you have that’s so natural to only you where you see others struggle? When you do it, you think to yourself “I feel like I was born just to do this”. In fact perhaps you can be the best in the world when you apply that talent. Be honest with yourself on what you can or cannot do. The better you understand yourself the more insights you have on your talent. Be careful to note that talent does not mean intelligence, motivation or any personality traits. It’s a natural ability to do something exceedingly well.
2. Passion
You are totally passionate about doing this. You’re willing to sacrifice your time, money, resources to do it. You simply just love doing it. You’re purely enjoying the process for its own sake. You wake up every morning looking forward to throw yourself in doing it. You really believe in what you’re doing.
3. Economic
Now imagine you are well paid for what you do. Let’s be honest not everything you’re totally passionate about and have a raw talent for actually pays you for it. However a better understanding of your key strength will enable you to recognize the kind of jobs that pays well for those concepts mentioned above. Do research, learn more about your talent/gift, your dream, talk to people about it.
“Find something that you love to do and you’ll never have to work another day of your life”
posted by sam @ 7:03 AM,
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