Let me fill you in on a little secret.
Finding a job or career you love isn’t easy.
This post is the result of a few recent conversations I have had about the process of finding or creating your dream work.
It seems that some people have this misconception about how you go about finding it.
They think that the process to finding your “dream job” is one of simple inputs and an ultimate output.
By that I mean they think that the way to find a job you love is to take a test or assessment of some sort and then the correct answer will be revealed.
You input things about who you are and the things you like and then BAM…you should be a doctor, or nurse or a whatever.
If it were only that easy!
Well here is a little news flash for you…
This isn’t how it works at all! Actually not even close!
Searching for and finding a job or career you love TAKES WORK!
The amount of work it takes varies from person to person but finding the work that you love takes a concentrated effort on your part no matter who you are.
When I give people the details about our framework for finding a job you love it blows me away when I see cringe and hear them mention how much “work” is involved.
Are you kidding me?
Now granted most of these people would never become coaching clients because our clients come in to the program with a much different mindset but it blows me away nonetheless.
I mean most people spend more time and effort planning their vacation then they do on their careers.
And we wonder why over 70% of us are unhappy in our jobs?
I believe that everyone should “do the work” and go through the process of knowing how to find meaningful and engaging work.
I believe the payoffs are HUGE and the “work” you do reveals some very important things about you and what you want out of life and benefits you in more areas of your life than just your career.
As a matter of fact 100% of the people we coach here at the Dream Work Project tell us what a great process it is and that they wish they would have done this a long time ago.
They like that fact that we guide them through the process of thinking deeply about who they are and what they actually want out of their career.
Most say that they learned more about themselves in the last few weeks than they have in they last few years!
Now thats exciting!
They know their strengths, skills, passion and purpose.
They know how their values apply to their job and exactly what motivates them.
By having them “do the work” they get to know exactly who they are and what they want.
This causes their confidence to grow and they begin to understand that they are in charge.
They understand that they are “steering the ship” and can indeed design or create the work that they love.
So when people resist the “work” that needs to go into finding what they love I truly am shocked.
I actually can’t think of “work” that is more important than this.
It does WITHOUT A DOUBT take time and effort to find or create the work you love so it really is your choice.
Is “doing the work” worth it to you?
