Truth #1
TIME is the most valuable resource you have.
We spend one-third of our lives at work. ONE.THIRD.
You get to choose how you spend that one-third. This one-third had better be fulfilling.
Truth #2
A career is meant to be fulfilling and rewarding. It is NOT meant to be merely tolerable.
What’s your choice: to suffer less or to enjoy more?
The way there is to employ your talents and gifts on your career path. Find a way.
Truth #3
No money can buy happiness.
Yet happy people have the capacity to make all the money they need.
Your career changes when you shift to a happy place by placing your gifts to work; MONEY WILL FOLLOW.
Truth #4
Your iris and fingerprint are unique.
So is your talent - a unique innate gift.
When you apply your gift in your career, you BECOME A GIFT TO THE WORLD.
Truth #5
Stop eating the usual corporate ‘sandwich feedback’ if you want to get real about your career.
(The standard formula: ‘Something good you did = The bad stuff you need to improve = Another good thing, so we don’t hurt your feelings’).
Get on a ‘bun-less diet’. True, direct feedback is invaluable. The same goes for a happy career.
Truth #6
You may be blessed with a gift and luck, but your career success comes from the first two COMBINED WITH a lot of work.
You get what you dare to.
DISCIPLINE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN DORMANT TALENT. Start working on yourself.
Truth #7
You may have all the successes and achievements in your career, but no joy or fulfillment.
Imagine: If you achieved so much in a profession you don’t like, WHAT could you achieve if you did what you loved?
Truth #8
If you are in the wrong career, the work feels never-ending and shallow.
The right career feels rewarding and meaningful.
Where do you feel drained? Where do you feel energized?
The compass is inside you.
Truth #9
You need a vision for your career like you need headlights to drive in the dark.
Tell your vision as a story and believe in it.
Eventually, the world will believe in it too.
Truth #10
Not every talent will become a career. Some will stay hobbies.
Yet, they still get expressed somehow somewhere. That’s a happy place for your soul.
What’s one of your happy places? Go build it.
Truth #11
It is okay to feel like a failure sometimes; it is part of the process. It proves you are human.
Career trajectory is rarely a straight line. Take bumps as learning.
Every NO gets you closer to your YES.
Truth #12
Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. There is no end to polishing imperfections.
Your career success comes when you play full-on with your driving force.
Truth #13
Everything has patterns.
How you show up everywhere is how you will show up in your career.
Work on understanding your patterns and styles; this way you get to control them, not be controlled by them.
Truth #14
Only when you are in the right profession can you have the right impact.
Larger impact, more relevant impact, social impact.
What is the impact you want to have? Dare to have it.
Truth #15
When people are angry with their daily life, it feeds anger and unrest.
If people are happy and fulfilled, the energy changes around them.
Start with yourself. Start with daily changes to get your career happy and fulfilled.
Make the world a happier place by adding your own joy from doing what you love to do.
Truth #16
If you feel that you must chop off bits of yourself at work, then you are probably in the wrong work environment.
The right career environment is when you can show up as yourself at full height.
Seek the career environment where you can flourish.
Truth #17
We are all hard-wired in certain ways.
Our true talent is hard-wired in us; we cannot not do it.
If we don’t let it live, it will find a way to express itself through other avenues, possibly ‘unauthorized’ or less healthy. Self-knowledge is part of mastery. Know thyself.
Truth #18
When ‘good is good enough’, you may be managing unhappiness very well. It is not happiness, though.
To find your happiness in your profession, you need to know how it looks.
Start with discovering your gifts.
Truth #19
YOU HAVE A GIFT.
The more you live in alignment with it, the more fulfilling your life will feel.
Try it out. It might get you to a wonderful career.
Truth #20
What is the cost of you NOT working towards the right career?
What parts of you are getting dismissed, diminished, silenced?
Not only do we lose by not expressing ourselves in our own way, but we also deprive the world of our mastery and capability.
Let your talents live; think of it as not selfish, but MUTUALLY BENFICIAL.
The Bonus Truth:
I heard a monk in India say,
The teaching is not to be taken literally, but rather:
TIME is the most valuable resource you have.
We spend one-third of our lives at work. ONE.THIRD.
You get to choose how you spend that one-third. This one-third had better be fulfilling.
Truth #2
A career is meant to be fulfilling and rewarding. It is NOT meant to be merely tolerable.
What’s your choice: to suffer less or to enjoy more?
The way there is to employ your talents and gifts on your career path. Find a way.
Truth #3
No money can buy happiness.
Yet happy people have the capacity to make all the money they need.
Your career changes when you shift to a happy place by placing your gifts to work; MONEY WILL FOLLOW.
Truth #4
Your iris and fingerprint are unique.
So is your talent - a unique innate gift.
When you apply your gift in your career, you BECOME A GIFT TO THE WORLD.
Truth #5
Stop eating the usual corporate ‘sandwich feedback’ if you want to get real about your career.
(The standard formula: ‘Something good you did = The bad stuff you need to improve = Another good thing, so we don’t hurt your feelings’).
Get on a ‘bun-less diet’. True, direct feedback is invaluable. The same goes for a happy career.
Truth #6
You may be blessed with a gift and luck, but your career success comes from the first two COMBINED WITH a lot of work.
You get what you dare to.
DISCIPLINE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN DORMANT TALENT. Start working on yourself.
Truth #7
You may have all the successes and achievements in your career, but no joy or fulfillment.
Imagine: If you achieved so much in a profession you don’t like, WHAT could you achieve if you did what you loved?
Truth #8
If you are in the wrong career, the work feels never-ending and shallow.
The right career feels rewarding and meaningful.
Where do you feel drained? Where do you feel energized?
The compass is inside you.
Truth #9
You need a vision for your career like you need headlights to drive in the dark.
Tell your vision as a story and believe in it.
Eventually, the world will believe in it too.
Truth #10
Not every talent will become a career. Some will stay hobbies.
Yet, they still get expressed somehow somewhere. That’s a happy place for your soul.
What’s one of your happy places? Go build it.
Truth #11
It is okay to feel like a failure sometimes; it is part of the process. It proves you are human.
Career trajectory is rarely a straight line. Take bumps as learning.
Every NO gets you closer to your YES.
Truth #12
Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. There is no end to polishing imperfections.
Your career success comes when you play full-on with your driving force.
Truth #13
Everything has patterns.
How you show up everywhere is how you will show up in your career.
Work on understanding your patterns and styles; this way you get to control them, not be controlled by them.
Truth #14
Only when you are in the right profession can you have the right impact.
Larger impact, more relevant impact, social impact.
What is the impact you want to have? Dare to have it.
Truth #15
When people are angry with their daily life, it feeds anger and unrest.
If people are happy and fulfilled, the energy changes around them.
Start with yourself. Start with daily changes to get your career happy and fulfilled.
Make the world a happier place by adding your own joy from doing what you love to do.
Truth #16
If you feel that you must chop off bits of yourself at work, then you are probably in the wrong work environment.
The right career environment is when you can show up as yourself at full height.
Seek the career environment where you can flourish.
Truth #17
We are all hard-wired in certain ways.
Our true talent is hard-wired in us; we cannot not do it.
If we don’t let it live, it will find a way to express itself through other avenues, possibly ‘unauthorized’ or less healthy. Self-knowledge is part of mastery. Know thyself.
Truth #18
When ‘good is good enough’, you may be managing unhappiness very well. It is not happiness, though.
To find your happiness in your profession, you need to know how it looks.
Start with discovering your gifts.
Truth #19
YOU HAVE A GIFT.
The more you live in alignment with it, the more fulfilling your life will feel.
Try it out. It might get you to a wonderful career.
Truth #20
What is the cost of you NOT working towards the right career?
What parts of you are getting dismissed, diminished, silenced?
Not only do we lose by not expressing ourselves in our own way, but we also deprive the world of our mastery and capability.
Let your talents live; think of it as not selfish, but MUTUALLY BENFICIAL.
The Bonus Truth:
I heard a monk in India say,
‘God dwells within a human in the form of talent; when you realize your talent, you become closer to God’.
The teaching is not to be taken literally, but rather:
‘The Lord is the Ultimate Creator.
When you live your true calling, you reach your greatest capabilities in creating’.