Attracting Your Perfect Job or Career

By: Ken Keis

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller

Are you in your perfect job?

Each of us is born with specific talents. Before you can attract your perfect career, work or life, you must be clear about your gifts, talents, and interests.

The challenge for many of you will be that your gifts and talents don’t fit the Standard Industry Classification (SIC) Code. While it may be easy to define the skills necessary to do the job of a welder, bus driver, or receptionist, how does an intrapreneur and an entrepreneur fit into the code? Many people do not! Making career decisions using the status quo is not always beneficial. For many of us, that process misses the mark.

My primary MBA research revealed that the higher up individuals moved on the traditional corporate ladder, the lower their job satisfaction and morale levels were. That is a fact. Even though I was not surprised by the research results, I was not prepared with direct follow-up questions to confirm the exact reasons for their growing job dissatisfaction.

Further evidence points to this: as people progress along the responsibility trail, they have less time and less balance in their lives; there is a growing chasm between their work life and the life they envisioned for themselves. Increasingly they are forced to make choices among the things they value most in life – and they simply do not like the options.

Don't get me wrong. I am not slamming jobs or dedication to work. I do want to point out that your job, career, or business should be there to serve you, not the other way around.

I agree with Dr. Alan Weiss’s opinion on life – we don’t have a work and home life, we simply have a life with all its elements. So if you are in a job or career or business that is not serving you and using your gifts, talents, and interests, then it is time to take action and make a change.

Action Steps to Help You Attract Your Perfect Job or Career

1. Establish what you want in a position, career, or opportunity.
2. Let go of your fear – your choices determine your quality of life.
3. Ask for support. Get feedback from friends, coaches, and colleagues – and tell the truth.
4. Take quiet time to listen to yourself. Expect to receive the answers you seek.
5. Make a list of all the characteristics, qualities, and attributes of your perfect opportunity.
6. Compare that list to your current situation. In many cases, individuals who complete this process find out that – with a few adjustments and a bit of fine-tuning – they can achieve exactly what they wish to accomplish. For some reason, they have not been accepting the fact that they are actually quite close to having what they want. Some individuals must give themselves permission to enjoy their life.
7. Envision your perfect career or business in all its detail. How does it look? Document it, reflect on it, and get excited about living it!
8. Complete assessment and interest inventories to help in the clarification process.
9. If you are the one in five individuals who has achieved perfect responsibility On Purpose, what is your next level? How can you go even higher?

Until next time keep Living on Purpose,

Ken Keis

About the Author

Ken Keis, MBA, CPC, is an internationally known author, speaker, and consultant. In the past 20 years, he has conducted over 2000 presentations including 10,000 hours of coaching and HR consulting.







He has published over 400 articles, and designed more than 40 business management, leadership, personal development, wellness or sales processes—authoring 2 million + words of content along the way.





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