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Posted by Joni Rose Aug 19, 2007 |
Is there a great secret to finding the right career? I am not sure if there is a great secret but there is one element to professional development that I find certainly can help people come closer to discovering a best fit career and work that makes their heart sing.
That element is determining what type of work comes easily and naturally to you. Sound too simplistic? “But”, you say, “I need to stretch myself to see my full potential, Joni”.
If find too often that clients feel this uncontrollable need to put themselves outside their comfort zone and not listen to their core values. It is like they have a devil on their shoulder that says, “You can’t do that, it is too easy!” or “that isn’t using your potential”.
Often when my clients stop and reflect on the work that has brought them the most joy and that they feel most passionate about, it is the work that has used their innate talents. That allusive right career was there all along. It was the one that uses these innate talents daily and to the extreme.
If working to your career potential is working at something that utilizes your strengths, then I think you’d be using your strengths if the work came so easily to you that you could do it in your sleep. Struggle? I say, “Why?”. Why not make it easy to succeed. Identify the work that comes easily to you and you’ll be on the road to career success.
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