Get Inspired About Your Career
Do you linger in bed long after your alarm goes off on work mornings? Do you dread Sunday nights because they lead to Monday mornings? Do you watch the clock and wonder if the day will ever end? Do you look outside your workplace and ask, "Is there more to life than just this job?"
If you suffer from any of these symptoms, it is time for you to create a new career! In her CD book, Advanced Energy Anatomy, Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. lays out a seven-step process for bringing an idea to physical creation. Here's that seven-step process applied to creating a new career inspiration.
1. Get Inspired. Inspiration comes from the Latin words that mean, "to breathe in". To infuse your career creation with life, passion, and excitement, ask yourself,
What would I do if money were not an object?
What did I love to do as a child but left behind?
What activity do I do so intently that I don't notice time passing,
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Am I interested in turning down the road not taken at a past career fork in the road?
Dig deeply, don't censor your answers and write each inspiration on a separate piece of paper.
2. What Do You Think? Run each of your inspirations through your head! Ask,
Can I see myself doing this?
Does it make sense?
Do I think I can do it?
Am I willing to think about it?
Be honest in answering these questions, and record your answers on each idea's page. Rule out the inspirations that don't survive here.
3,
Black ballet flats. What About Your Will? Run each of the surviving ideas through your will! Your will houses your mental capabilities for choosing, intending, wishing and desiring. Ask yourself,
Will I be able to do this?
Am I able to communicate it?
Am I able to make the right choices and decisions to do this?
Again, write down your answers for each idea. Narrow your list of ideas once more to the ones you believe you'll be able to do, communicate or make the right choices for.
4. What Do You Feel? Run your survivors through your heart! Ask yourself,
How do I feel about this?
Does it feel right to me?
Can I follow my heart on these inspirations?
Write the answers to these questions for each idea; rule out the ones your heart isn't into.
Here's where the going gets tough. The first four steps are energetic. They're ephemeral, they don't affect your physical life, and they're cheap and easy. The next three steps involve assessing your surviving career ideas in the physical world.
5. What Will Others Think? Run your surviving inspirations through your self-esteem. Ask yourself,
Can I endure criticism for this choice?
Will others think I'm foolish?
What if others laugh at me?
Write your answers for each of the surviving ideas and go to the next step.
6. Can I Afford It? Run your surviving inspirations through your financial life. Ask yourself,
What will it cost to change?
Can I live on what I could make in this new career?
Can I learn to live with less?
Record your answers and go to the next step.
7. Am I Willing to Deal With My Fears,
Choosing the Perfect Hiking Boots? What, you have no career ideas or inspirations that survived? Congratulations, you have met your fears!