Happiness revolves around the job you love

As a business leader, I interact with many people who often want to know if they are in the right job. I tell them that the answer is in them and your answer is in you too. Your inner feeling never lies. What you should do next, is there, waiting for you. This feeling being based more on job satisfaction, the question is, does it give the right returns. After all we all want a satisfying job with the right pay.

Career

One of the biggest career challenges is the ability to read your inner feeling when direction is needed. For example, how can you listen to what your heart says is the right career move when you are stressed and busy? How can you uncover what you're supposed to be doing next when you have a job to get to every day, children to take care of, and loved ones you want to spend time with? There is too much to do isn't it?

Making time for you does not have to be hours at a time. Just enough time to give you clarity about your career.

Career dreams

You can spend five minutes in the morning before you get out of bed. You can spend five minutes while you are in the shower, or 10 minutes while you are driving or riding to work. The goal is not how long, but what you do with the time you have. If you clear your mind for a few minutes each day, over time, the answers you are seek will come to you.

Unless, you make time to listen to your inner voice and spend time on your goals, your goals will get lost. Your career dreams vanish. What you want in your career becomes a blur. You know what you are doing in your career is not the right thing for you any more, but you don't know how to go about finding something different. You blame yourself. If only you were smart, creative and talented, then a great career would come your way.

A great career is possible, but not without your conscious participation and consideration. Until you decide to take a better step, the action necessary to make this happen cannot begin. There are always reasons to stay where you are. The money is good. The job market is tough.

What you know is better than what you don't know. Or, is it? It's actually harder to stay in a bad situation than to work towards happiness. Listen to your inner voice. If it says it's time to act, then listen to it. Decide that today is the day your career begins to change for the better.

Moving forward

It takes courage to move forward in your career. What happens if you are wrong? What about the people in your life who will tell you, "I told you so". But, what happens if you are right? Maybe the answer you have been hearing is there for a reason. Maybe you are meant to do something different.

Maybe you have done all you can where you are and you are supposed to go somewhere else so you can make the difference you are always talking about. How will you know if you do not try? Tell yourself again and again that you can - until you believe it. There is no job in the world that will completely satisfy each and every aspect of a job.

Action

Do you know if your next career move is going to work out or not? No one knows at the beginning. All you know is what feels right inside you. If you move towards what feels right and move away from what feels wrong, you will be happy. You will have more optimism and energy. The light at the end of the tunnel will start to appear.

Taking the first step is always the hardest, but know that the steps get easier over time. Action brings action. The right career moves are in you. They will work out if you take the path you know you are supposed to take.

Your peak demand is limited to about 20 years; say from 25-45 years. This is when you must get the best returns. If the present place doesn't offer you the best isn't it better to explore other avenues? What do you say? Demand is limited and you only have one life to live, so it might as well be a life you love through the job you love. But change only if you have a rational reason to change not an emotional one.