Are You Happy in Your Job?

Everyone wants a satisfying job. But most of us feel we have to compromise along the way for one reason or another.

The most common obstacle arises from being under financial and emotional pressure to accept the first half-decent job that comes along. Other barriers include;

• the realization that finding a new career is not an easy task,
• being too busy earning to spend time looking and,
• underestimating your current job marketable skills.

The rewards of a satisfying job are immense – too large to ignore. You owe it to yourself to be very selective in your job search. Job satisfaction is more that just an ideal, it is achievable!

When working with a Career and Life Transition Coach you assess your desired career direction by examining your vision, your mission, your passion, and your needs and values. A coach will help you define success on your terms.

People who define success on their terms;

• know within seconds whether an opportunity is right for them,
• are focused on internal benchmarks for success, not external measures, and
• know what is most important to them as a person,
• create opportunities for themselves.

When you work in a satisfying job, a lot of good things happen.

• You work well and are happy.
• You are appreciated, gain recognition and job stature increases.
• You create strong relationships with co-workers.
• You are stimulated.
• Your self-confidence increases.

The advantages give obvious reasons for pursuing the ideal job. But, many people being secure in what they have always done and think they must trudge along and compromise their true job satisfaction.

Whether you are spending your life in a career that merely pays the bills, or in a career that has created wealth, or are in the process of climbing the ladder of success, you should not only be doing what you are good at but, also what you love to do.

People who love what they do know their career values and their career interests. They know where they have been, what they have learned, where they are now and where they are going. They speak with confidence.

Is it time to assess what truly fulfills you in your career? Do you know what is important to you?

The first step is to define the results you are committed to achieving through examining your needs. Next, you will assess where you are right now and where you want to be and what is in between. You will identify how to achieve the results you desire and deserve. Then you create a game plan and start taking action.

Book of The Month

Readers who accept poet and Fortune 500 consultant Whyte's invitation to enter into "an imaginative conversation about life and work" are likely to be challenged as well as delighted by the beauty of his writing and the expansiveness of his views in Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work As a Pilgrimage of Identity.

Gracefully using the metaphor of a sea voyage to depict the journey through the world of work, Whyte views work not only as a means of support, but as a means for interacting with the world and developing self-expression and identity.

While he draws on the philosophical underpinnings of the self-help movement aimed at finding one's "inner compass," Whyte doesn't offer the step-by-step pragmatism of other books. Instead, his approach is subtler and more organic, presenting an abundance of provocative ideas, especially on one's relationship with time and daily ritual, on the importance of dignity and ethics and on honoring the labor of one's ancestors.

Interwoven with and undergirding Whyte's philosophy are passages of memoir, detailing his unique experiences as a naturalist in the Gal pagos Islands, for example, together with poetic references from Whitman, Spender, Dickinson, Rilke, Wordsworth and Whyte's own works. Even Whyte's friends are wise, as evidenced by a monk who tells him that the antidote to exhaustion is not rest but "wholeheartedness." Thoughtful readers will wholeheartedly savor this book.

From Publishers Weekly

Keep In Mind That...

• Keep your long-term goals in mind, and act accordingly

• Not everything on your to-do list is urgent and important

• You should accept help from others so that you can accomplish your goals

• If you get five things on your list done in one day, you are accomplishing a lot

• There is only so much you can accomplish in one day, and it is usually less than you aim for

• If your system is not working, figure out why, fix it, and try again

• You need to look at tomorrow's schedule today

• You need to look at today's schedule today

• If you do it now, you won't have it hanging over your head later

• Believing that you will never be organized is a self-fulfilling prophecy

• Believing that you can be organized is also a self-fulfilling prophecy

• Just because today seems a mess, it doesn't mean that tomorrow can't be productive

• You should be having fun!

   

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