Do you enjoy what you do? Do you get satisfaction, joy or anything more than a paycheck from your job? If not, it might be time to reassess what you are doing. Even if your job gives you an incredible income, a profession that is not right for you might ruin the rest of your life.

What do I mean by that? Just think how you would feel, when you wake up at 85 years old and reflect on your life. You made great money, but somewhere along the way, you lost yourself. Your spirit died. And now all you have is money, no friends, no family, no one to really be there for you? Is it all worth it?

Ty Cobb was a great baseball player. He achieved many of his goals during his baseball career, and was considered to be one of the all time best baseball players ever. He amassed great wealth during his lifetime and died an extremely wealthy man. Yet only 3 people came to his funeral. Even his children rejected him and didn’t attend his funeral! Why? Because his career was more important than everything around him.

We don’t want you to judge success by the dollars in your pocket, but by all the relationships you are creating along the way. We want you to have a balance in all areas of your life!

You need to really look at your situation. Are you getting what you want from your work? If not, could it be your attitude? Could your problem be what you are putting into the situation? The attitude that permeates most people in society is doing as little as possible. Skating by at work seems to make people think they are getting away with something. They feel empowered. However, this is not true. True empowerment is doing the work. Empowerment comes from accomplishment. You won’t get satisfaction by going on cruise control.

You may need to reframe your attitude about your work or you might need to find new work. Why not make your vocation your avocation? Can you make your hobby your work? If money is a primary driver for you, can you make more within your current job title or classification? Can you make a move within your firm or profession that enables you to make what you want or need? Or can you move within your industry to another job type that will allow you to create what you want?

Could you be one of the many that just fell into their work? Are you not even sure of what it is that will give you satisfaction? If that is the case you will need to do an assessment. Fortunately there are ways to assess what you are good at and what you want to do even if you do not presently know. We use a system from MAPP.

Let’s say that you are not doing what you want. Let’s also say you do not have the training or the skills to get the job you want. Are you willing to get the training and/or education to get what would truly make you happy? Or let’s say you have the skills and education, do you have the connections and wherewithal to get the position you deserve?

That’s what we are talking about here. You may have to make major changes to make this large part of your life come in line with your spirit. If that is the case, you may have to rethink your total plan. If you need additional education you may need to create some understanding with a spouse. You may have to move or downsize. Assess these parameters when making your decisions.

However, do not become too shortsighted and live by the moment and think that making a change will be too big an undertaking when in fact it may be what it takes to make your life what you want it to be.

Making a career change creates quite a bit of fear for most of us. Even making small changes like a transfer can have a large effect. Some of those fears are justified. For example, if you have a heavy debt load, any change to your monthly income could put your financial situation in jeopardy. This is a fear with some justification that must be factored in when making a consideration. However, many fears are no more than your reaction to change.

Throughout this program we have asked that you evaluate your situation and to change it to better fit your life calling. Your career may be the most important change for you to make. That is why we ask that you examine this fear. Evaluate whether your fear is justified. Are you willing to overcome the fear of change? To do this you may have to reframe your fearful thoughts.

For many of us, all we derive from our work is a paycheck. We are not fulfilled whatsoever. Yet our work is one of the reasons we are on this earth. We have something to accomplish in this lifetime. It may be time to reframe your inter dialog to addressing the issue of your life’s fulfillment. Don’t fear change, fear not changing! What is it that scares you? New people, new training or the job search? I never said this would be easy, but the results are that you will have created a new life worth living. Your journey will be filled with adventure and satisfaction! Remember, this is YOUR life! Isn’t it time you began to live it the way you want?

If career is an issue, go out and assess what direction you should go in with our MAPP program. Look into training or schooling with our resources for this area. Use our job recruiter tools and resume builder within our Monster.com link.

If you like your career why not try to be even better at it. Find some new goal to really shine in what it is you do. Know how good it feels to accomplish something and to do it well. We can always do better so why not try. Even if you put in no more hours at your job, make those hours more productive. Everyone will benefit from this but no one more than you!

Remember the words of Charles Kettering of General Motors fame:

I tell my people that I don’t want any fellow who has a job working for me; what I want is a fellow whom a job has. And I want the job to get a hold on this young man so hard that no matter where he is, the job has got him for keeps. I want that job to have him in its clutches when he goes to bed at night and in the morning I want that job to be sitting at the foot of the bed telling him, “It’s time to get up and go to work!” And when a job get a fellow that what, he’s sure to amount to something!

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