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Do What You Love to Do and Don’t Stop Doing It
By Jeremy Henderson | January 27th, 2012
In today’s world, unlike ever before, you have the opportunity to do what you love. There are a number of journal articles, books, and lectures that can help you identify what that is, so we wiill not cover that here. Rather, what we’d like to focus on is how to do it.
1. Define yourself: Whether you absolutely love the role that you are in today or desperately seek to find yourself in a new experience extremely soon, you are the only person who can actually define yourself. All too often in today’s business climate, your manager is responsible for writing what often are pointless performance reviews that attempt to tell the story of you. On top of that, if you are in a larger organization, the employee development team will identify “competencies,” a list of personal characteristics and attributes, that they believe the company should use to operate as one team. Then, on top of all of that, companies will employ a set of values or operating principles which rarely, if ever, support the above elements. Now, are all of these defining characteristics important in business? The argument can be made that indeed they are. However, you get to define yourself! As a matter of fact, you are the only one who can actually do it.
2. Have courage: When you define yourself, it is highly likely that you will be making a significant change in who you are or a complete departure from what others expect from you. To change, you must have courage, and a great deal of bravery to capture the hearts and minds of those people who expect you to remain the same forever.
3. Target correctly: With the change you seek to implement, you may need to go look for a new company at which to work or you may start your own business. In times of change, however, be certain that people will tell you a story that you want to hear. And, if it sounds exactly like what you are looking for, be sure to ask every question that you can think of and make no assumptions. Too many times, we are enticed by the dream rather than the reality and in such make poor decisions.
4. Stay committed: Once you know what you want to do, do it and don’t stop doing it. Often times people say feedback is a gift; but what feedback offers you is an individual’s desire for you to do what they want you to do rather than what you are committed to doing. So, stay focused and remain committed to what you love to do in the way you love to do it.
We know that there are at least 100 different ways to get to an answer; but, there are no right or wrong answers in this world, when it comes to what you seek to do with your life. So, we’ll leave you with one last word, and that is this: once you find your love, never let it go. You too can live a happy, healthy, and productive life.
Jeremy Henderson is founder and chief client partner at Jungle Red Communication, a corporate human relations consulting firm. He focuses on helping clients build happy, healthy, productive workplaces that deliver tangible business results through internal communication, leadership, decision making and corporate social structures. You can reach Jeremy at www.JungleRedCommunication.com.
January 31st, 2012 at 4:44 am
Excellent points Jeremy! These are keys to building a successful career and life. Finding your passion, being willing to depart from the masses thinking, taking a stand for what you believe in and never giving up. We all have a built in internal guidance system, called intuition…tap into it, be authentic with yourself about what you really love and want in your life. Society is conditioned to think with your head….when you tap into what is truly in your heart, you start to live a life that most only dream about.
January 31st, 2012 at 3:12 pm
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