Careers

Beyond Career Survival

How do I change my life (job) from drab to fab?

The 21st century is a time for asking the right questions.
We all know how to solve problems. What we don't know is just which problems to solve. Hence asking the right questions becomes a priority when seeking to live a quality life.

Everyone wants a fab job! A fab job is one that allows us to develop our Gifts, Attributes and Talents and then moves us to the next job, the next brick on the Yellow Brick Road, to success. Finally we reach a place where we are ready to plough back, to leave a legacy, by helping others achieve their fab jobs. The difference between a fab job and one that is not, is planning.

A job is not a career; rather it is a short term goal of a career. A career is the name given to our working life. In order to plan a career that will lead to fab jobs we begin by asking some very important questions:

" What can I do right now to be more useful to my boss and hence the organisation?
" Do I understand what the organisation's customers need so that I can serve them more thoroughly?
" How can I give more of myself so that I can access more of my talents?

By focusing on becoming a useful employee in our current job, we experience success. Getting into a success cycle is the best starting point to planning a quality career that will lead to a fab job. Success breeds success and taps fully into our Gifts, Attributes and Temperament.

When we are focused on being useful to the organisation that pays our salary, we move from career survival into career joy, to

'Hanisa (Joy) in the Works'