Begin to look into doing work that you love (or, if you are already doing work you love, help someone else do the same).
One of the keys to happiness — as well as productivity and effectiveness at work — is finding work you love, that you are passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do. If you really want to do it, it barely seems like work at all.
The difficult thing for many people is finding what that work is in the first place. They do not know where to start, and it seems a hopeless cause. It is not. You can find that work, but it will take some looking.
How to find work you love?
- Believe in yourself. The main reason people do not try to do work they love, or even look for it, is because they do not think they are good enough. That is hogwash. We have been bamboozled and hornswoggled into believing we are insufficient, that it is scary to fail, when neither is remotely true. You are not only sufficient, you are perfect. Failure is how we learn to get better. It is a step towards success.
- Dare to ask. If you do not already know what you love to do, start a list. Do you have hobbies you are passionate about? What do you like reading about? What do you talk about with others? Is there something you always wanted to do but forgot about, or you were too afraid to pursue? What are your dreams? Is there something you have always wanted to accomplish in life? Almost everybody has some dream like that, sometime in their lives, but often they do not think it is realistic. Give it more thought now. What are you good at? What are your strengths? Do you have any talents? Is there something you have always excelled at? Write it all down. If you are having trouble coming up with ideas yourself, get help, from friends, family, or a career coach. You may be too close or too afraid to see the answers that are right in front of you.
- Take action. If you do not actually do anything, you will never find it. Start doing research, start making calls, make appointments, take career assessment tests. Start doing. Take action. Now!
- Explore new things. Try out new hobbies that sound interesting. Read about new things. Find new ways to explore — break out of your patterns.
- Once you find something interesting, pursue it. Read about it. Learn, and try it, and do it, and get better at it. Do not be afraid to pursue it — fear is what stops most people from finding this happiness.
- Do a small easy test. Don’t think you can start a blog? Sign up for a blogging account and do a short post. Do not tell anyone about it. Just write a post. It costs nothing, risks nothing, takes almost no time. But you will learn you can do that one little thing, and if you pass that test, you now know your theory of impossibility was wrong. You can do this with any skill, by the way, not just business blogging for the global audience.
I have finally found that work, in blogging here at Super Business Manager, and with teaching and writing about business management in general. And I am just one of many who have done that — there are people all over the world pursuing their dreams, working with passion, losing themselves in their work.
Are you one of them?
Do you want to be?
