Do you sometimes have this yearning for more, like you just know that you’re, currently not in the right place that you’re not living up to your full potential? You just know that you have more to give and you want to share more with the world. The problem is you just don’t know what that something else is, and you hear these stories about people that have found that thing that they were destined to.
Do you. You remain clueless and it leaves you feeling like a failure, because you feel that you should be able to figure this out right well in this video, i’m going to share a few things that i hope will help you to figure out what your thing is, because, Ultimately, work isn’t just about making ends meet or paying the bills. It can be about so much more than that, and i know that you know and feel that too so, let’s go to my home office and chat.
Now, first of all, if you’re new to my channel, my name is iris smith, i’m an ex-corps professional turned career transition, coach and i’ve helped hundreds of core professionals successfully change careers, and i share thoughts, tips and tactics on changing careers right here on my channel now, If you’re, not new, if you’ve been in before thanks so much for popping by again good to have you back okay, so now that’s out of the way. Let’S talk about this idea of a calling of finding the work that you are meant to do with your life, i did some google searches and it confirmed something that i already knew.
We are literally obsessed with this idea of finding a purpose finding a calling finding this one thing that you’re meant to do with your life. Look at this, so i did a few google searches how to choose a career path. 423 million results. How to find your dream job 783 million results, how to choose the right career 1.2 billion results, but once you start talking about things like finding your calling finding meaningful work, etc boom.
This is what you see how to find my calling nearly 2.7 billion results. How to find meaning in your work, nearly 9.5 billion results and, finally, how to find the work you’re meant to do nearly 12 billion results footnote. This is by no means rigorous, scientific research, but a lot of research has been done in this topic, for example by vocational psychologists and, if you’re interested in that, i recommend you go read this book, and all of this really is no surprise, because that desire for Finding one’s purpose is rooted in what makes each and one of us uniquely human, it’s the desire for significance, a desire to do something that matters to you and perhaps even make the world a better place. At the same time, the problem we’re approaching it entirely the wrong way. The idea that there is this one thing that you meant to do with your career with your life is flawed. It’s incorrect!
It’s wrong, now hear me out. You see there are two types of people, so, on the one hand, you have people who have found this thing that they are meant to do with their life with their career, and these are the people that are most vocal. So, we hear about their stories.
How often at a young age, they knew what they wanted to do with their life. They found their passion and they it’s incredible watching them, because they can talk so passionately about that thing and so full of certainty that we don’t really tend to think about the other type of people. The second group, so the second group of people, are those people who clearly don’t have that one thing that they haven’t found that one thing that they’re meant to do with their career or life, but what they do have are multiple interests.
So, they’re like this and this and this and this, however there, not passions, they’re things that i these people are interested in, but they wouldn’t say: oh, I’m passionate about it. It’s just something yeah, i like it, I’m interested in this, and they are plagued by not having found their passion, those interests. It’s almost like they’re, not good enough. They want to have what the other group has as well, so they want to have that passion, and i don’t see how having multiple interests is actually an incredible starting point for a brilliant career that gets the best out of you I’ll get to that in a Second, but what happens is that this group of people and mind you? This is the majority of people.
The majority of people will have some interests here and there and this and this, but they don’t have this one thing that is just screaming at them like this is what you need to do with your life and the fact that they don’t have that. One thing leaves this group of people feeling anxious and worried and insecure about what it is that they should be doing with their career. We, as a society, have glamorized that first set of people, and we fail to acknowledge the second set of people. People like you and me, people haven’t had that unwavering certainty, that this is what they’re meant to do with their career or with their life, and you know what that’s: okay, it’s okay, not to have that unwavering certainty that isn’t the goal.
Ultimately, what we’re all after is to find work that gives us that sense of significance, and you can feel that sense of significance without finding this one thing that you’re meant to do so: let’s stop looking at that first set of people and setting them as an Example for the rest of us to follow. That’s just way too much pressure and it stops you in your tracks, because you have this crazy, high and unattainable goal that you have to find this one thing and if you don’t find this one thing, then you’re doomed.
Let’s reframe things the goal isn’t to find that one thing that you’re meant to do the goal is to find work that intrinsically interests and motivates you, so you don’t end up working just for that. Paycheck and hey, don’t get me wrong, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with working just for the paycheck, i’m just guessing that seeing that you’re watching a video about how to find a work that you’re meant to do. You want your work to be about more than just that. Paycheck, you know you want to find work that deeply satisfies you.
That gives you joy and it gets the best out of you. So let go of the idea that there’s this one thing that you meant to do with your career with your life and instead focus on finding work, that’s intrinsically interesting and motivating to you now. I must admit that sounds a lot less sexy, but it’s much more attainable. So how do you then find work?
That’s intrinsically motivating and interesting.
Come I’ll show you find intrinsically interesting and motivating work in three steps. Step number one start paying attention to the things that you’re drawn to, or are interested in, so forget about finding your passion, instead of trying to wrack your brain, trying to figure out what your big passion in life is. Simply ask yourself what things am i naturally drawn to? What are the things I’d actually love to talk about what things would i love to learn more about just because I’m interested in them? That’s your starting point. Now.
I’ve done a whole video to help you with this.
So, instead of duplicating that video, i suggest you go check it out after you finish watching this video step number two engage with your interests simply because you’ll never know if you’re going to find something intrinsically interesting and motivating by thinking about it. You have to experience it and feel it with your heart, so take some time and set up a side project.
The bonus here is that that can be a nice distraction from your day job, especially if you really don’t like your day. Job can be a nice distraction to find some meaning or joy outside of your work, but you could also think of things like enrolling in free or paid courses going to events reading books about it anything to engage with that interest and learn more about it and Get that feeling of is this something that, within my heart, i want to do more with, if you’d, like some extra ideas about how to do this, and then i suggest you download this career change guide, which you can have, which you can find on my website.
I’ll leave the link below now. This phase is a discovery phase during which things can feel quite random. In fact, that’s quite normal for things to feel random. It’S part of the process because during this phase, you’re just exploring these interests and it’s normal to explore more than one interest and there’s not necessarily a lot of structure to this phase. So you’ll be following engaging with this one interest and figuring out exploring there’s something that you want to build a career around and, at the same time, you’ll be doing that with another interest.
So, it can feel overwhelming. It can feel messy because there’s not a lot of structure and just following these breadcrumbs as you go now.
The reason why you want to engage with two or three interests is because that gives you the ability to companion with one another, and you can get a better feeling for which one of these is right, for you step number three figure out what a career in This area could look like so once you’ve engaged with multiple interests, and you found one that you’re like yes, i can see myself working in this field. I can see that this interest will intrinsically interest and motivate me once you have that feeling. Then it’s time to get more tactical and focus more on what a career would look like for you in your chosen field.
So, this is where you start to focus on the types of jobs that are available in this field and where the opportunities might like might lie for you – and you do this by speaking with people who are already working in this field. So, you’re setting up coffee, chats virtual meetings, conversations with people who are already working in this field and asking them questions to help you figure out how you can break into this field and what types of job might be available for you.
So, in this phase, you’re focusing on getting the lay of the land, so to speak. So what you’re trying to do is getting clarity on the different organizations that operate within this field, how they’re different from one another, what types of jobs are available and how you see yourself fitting in in within all of this. This is also the phase where you actively network to help you get access to the hidden job market or create opportunities for yourself. Ultimately, what it comes down to is this: the antidote to feeling lost is change, and you change things by taking action, not by thinking about what you want to change. As dry martin Luther king, jar famously said, you don’t need to see the whole staircase.
You just need to take the first step, so make sure you go check out that career change guide that i mentioned on earlier in this video. The link is below this video and before i go, there are three things that i didn’t share in this video. That might be the root cause of. Are you feeling lost or stuck in your job right now? Now, if you want to know what I’m talking about, then make sure you check out this video down here, in which i share it all I’ll see you there.
Unique Safelist Traffic – No Surfing, Credits or Account Needed
https://app.airtm.com/ivt/jose356t0p7e
Discover more from Making Money Is Easy
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
