Maybe you earn a good salary. Take your current situation and play it out 10, 20, 30 years into the future. A life without meaning will eventually make you miserable. You know why? Because your soul is demanding you to be who you were created to be. This is the most practical advice I have when it comes to finding your life purpose.
Use what you do best to do what you love most to produce the results that matter. Every human being has talent. Every human being has passion. But talent and passion on their own are not enough. Talent is all about identifying and owning your natural skills and abilities—and working to develop them. Look back on your school, work and hobbies to get some clues. Are you a natural leader? A skilled communicator? Do you enjoy analyzing data or creating artistic masterpieces?
I want you to love what you do. In order to find your passion , think about the activities that spike high levels of emotion and devotion. You can just work, work, work, work without even noticing the time fly by. This is where it gets fun. The third ingredient to a meaningful calling is determining your mission—combining your talent and your passion to produce results that make a difference in the world.
This one can be a little harder to grasp, so chew on these questions to help wrap your brain around mission:. Do your friends regularly ask you for advice and help regarding their private lives?
Question 17 of Do you like to hold presentations and to inform others? Question 18 of Do you like history, religion or questions related to society and politics? Question 19 of Do you find it interesting to study social tendencies in other people? Question 20 of Do you want to work internationally? Question 21 of Do you find it interesting to study nature and urbanisation? Question 22 of Do you want to work with kids and teenagers?
Question 23 of Do you like to help others, for example the elderly or the sick? Question 24 of Do you want to help reduce the impact of stress on modern day life? Question 25 of Are fitness and health important to you? Question 26 of Do you like to understand how things work, and be involved in creating things? Question 27 of Would you like to get a drivers licence and drive a vehicle at your workplace?
Question 28 of This test is tougher than it seems on paper. In the past decade, the work world has become a battleground for the struggle between the boring and the stimulating. The emphasis on intensity has seeped into our value system. We still cling to the idea that work should not only be challenging and meaningful — but also invigorating and entertaining.
But really, work should be like life: sometimes fun, sometimes moving, often frustrating, and defined by meaningful events. Their language invokes a different troika: meaningful, significant, fulfilling. And they rarely ever talk about work without weaving in their personal history. And every culture is driven by a value system. In Hollywood, where praise is given too easily and thus has been devalued, the only honest metric is box-office receipts.
So box-office receipts are all-important. In Washington, DC, some very powerful politicians are paid middling salaries, so power and money are not equal. Power is measured by the size of your staff and by how many people you can influence. In police work, you learn to be suspicious of ordinary people driving cars and walking down the street.
One of the most common mistakes is not recognizing how these value systems will shape you. The relevant question in looking at a job is not What will I do? What belief system will you adopt, and what will take on heightened importance in your life?
Your money is good anywhere, but respect and status are only a local currency. They get heavily discounted when taken elsewhere. Don Linn, the investment banker who took over the catfish farm in Mississippi, learned this lesson the hard way. His life change smacked of foolish originality: 5.
His first day, he had to clip the wings of a flock of geese. Covered in goose shit and blood, he wondered what he had gotten himself into. More important, the work reset his moral compass. You learn to cooperate, sharing processing plants, feed mills, and pesticide-flying services.
Find one that enforces a set of beliefs that you can really get behind. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them. Carl Kurlander wrote the movie St.
For years afterward, he lived in Beverly Hills. He wanted to move back to Pittsburgh, where he grew up, to write books, but he was always stopped by the doubt, Would it really make any difference to write from Pittsburgh instead of from Beverly Hills? His books went unwritten. The first psychological stumbling block that keeps people from finding themselves is that they feel guilty for simply taking the quest seriously.
But I found that just about anybody can find this question important. I met many working-class people who found this question essential. They might have fewer choices, but they still care. Take Bart Handford. His breakthrough came when his car was hit by a train, and he spent six months in bed exploring The Question.
Probably the most debilitating obstacle to taking on The Question is the fear that making a choice is a one-way ride, that starting down a path means closing a door forever. I call the people who have the hardest time closing doors Phi Beta Slackers. Leela de Souza almost got lost in that trap. At age 15, Leela knew exactly what she wanted to be when she grew up: a dancer.
But she soon began to feel that she had left her intellect behind. So, in her early twenties, with several good years left on her legs, she took the SATs and applied to college. But she never got any closer to making a real choice. Like most Phi Beta Slackers, she was cursed with tremendous ability and infinite choices. Figuring out what to do with her life was constantly on her mind. But then she figured something else out: Her need to look brilliant was what was keeping her from truly answering The Question.
What is freedom for if not the chance to define for yourself who you are? I have spent the better part of the past two years in the company of people who have dared to confront where they belong. We are all writing the story of our own life. Through trial and error, we learn what gifts we have to offer the world and are pushed to greater recognition about what we really need. The Big Bold Leap turns out to be only the first step. Of the people who I talked to, only one has had the same employer for his entire adult life.
We can all learn from him. Russell began working at NASA during college. They prefer to work where things get done with minimal analysis and where persuasion is well received by others. People with green styles tend to be spontaneous, talkative, personal, enthusiastic, convincing, risk-taking, and competitive, and usually thrive in a team-oriented, adventurous, informal, innovative, big picture-oriented, varied environment.
People with blue styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is supportive and helpful to others with a minimum of confrontation. They prefer to work where they have time to think things through before acting. People with blue style tend to be insightful, reflective, selectively sociable, creative, thoughtful, emotional, imaginative, and sensitive. Usually they thrive in a cutting edge, informally paced, future-oriented environment.
People with red styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is action-oriented and practical. They prefer to work where things happen quickly and results are seen immediately.
People with red styles tend to be straightforward, assertive, logical, personable, authoritative, friendly, direct, and resourceful, and usually thrive in a self-structured, high-pressured, hierarchical, production-oriented, competitive environment. It is important to note that interest in an activity does not necessarily indicate skill. Yellow — People with yellow Interests like job responsibilities that include organizing and systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable, and objective.
Green — People with green Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, sales, promotions, and group or personal contact. Blue — People with blue Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve creative, humanistic, thoughtful, and quiet types of activities.
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