And the #1 secret is to finding work you love is…
Have some fun with just being YOU!!
That’s it. It really is that simple.
Think about that simple statement for a minute and what it means. Do you have fun just being YOU, even when you’re at work? Are you the same person at work as you are at home? Which one is the real you, the one at home or the one at work? Do you really know who “you” is? And how do you make a living by having fun just being you? …
Despite what others may try to tell you, you can make a fantastic living having fun just being you. Work doesn’t have to be “labor” to make great money. It doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, those who make the best money consistently love what they do not because of the money, but because it fits them down to the core.
Just how is it that you find a career where you can have some fun with just being YOU? There are five simple steps that are proven to lead you to work you love, where you will have some fun just being YOU.
The five steps are:
Step #1 – Know the “real you”.
Step #2 – Embrace the “real you”.
Step #3 – Understand how being the real you will help solve the problems of others.
Step #4 – Find somewhere that will embrace the “real you” (where you don’t have to hide it).
Step #5 – Set an action plan to get from here to there.
In the next few blogs, I’ll discuss in detail each one of these steps. If you’d like to know more about our techniques, visit our website at www.stuckinarut.com . Now on to the first step….
STEP #1 - Know the real you. This sounds simple, but is it really?
In today’s world, people identify so much with their job title and place of employment that they lose their sense of who they are… or maybe they never really knew. If you don’t know who you are, how are you supposed to get into a career that fits the real you? Try these tests to see if you know the real you…
Here’s a test. Can you describe yourself without mentioning your job title?
Here’s a tougher test. Can you describe yourself without mentioning skills? (A skill is something you’ve learned since the age of ten.)
And here’s an even tougher test. Can you describe yourself in terms of unique core characteristics? Can you describe yourself so well that if your best friend found this description on a piece of paper laying on the street (without your name on it), he or she would instantly know it’s you?
If you struggle with this, join the crowd. I did, too. It wasn’t until I went through an iterative questioning process over about eight years that I discovered how to describe the real me.
Here’s what I did, and you can try it, too. It’ll bring interesting results. Finish this statement…
Keep filling in that blank over and over again, each time giving a different answer. Keep going until you run out of things with which to complete that sentence. Come back and revisit it later. If you give it a little thought each time, you’ll go deeper and deeper into who you REALLY are. If you get to a point that describes you and only you, then you’ve got it. That’s the real you!!
We’ve found a really cool way to uncover the real you in a process we call The Clarifier . The Clarifier uncovers your Given Talent in about 90 minutes. Your Given Talent is the very core of you. It’s the way you uniquely process information that is so energizing that you are compelled by it. You can’t get enough of it, and you’re REALLY good at it.
If you’d like to see how much you’re using your Given Talent at work and at home, try our free Reality Check by clicking here. You can even sign up for a free test drive there. It’s a great start to finding out about the real you.
Until next time, have some fun with just being YOU!!!
Author:
Dave Dutton - Founder of Dave Dutton - Founder of stuckinarut.com - “Answering the question for all ages, “What do I want to be when I grow up.”