June 2012 Newsletter: Doing what you love and loving what you do

Imagine for just a moment what it would be like to do exactly what you would love and love exactly what you do in life and get handsomely or beautifully paid to do it. Imagine the surge of energy and inspiration you would feel living and fulfilling such a state. Now imagine what it would be like to drag yourself out of bed each morning with a brake on and dead weights sitting on your shoulders because you have to go to work doing something you dread. There is a big difference isn't there? Is it really possible to do something you truly love? I believe this is not only possible, but it is perfectly 'do-able'.

There are two approaches that will assist you in creating a more inspiring career, or the one of your dreams.

First:

In order to do what you love you must first learn to love and appreciate what you do. If you don't appreciate the job or daily duties you presently have you will certainly not function from your full potential. Your gas tank will be running on near empty. Opportunities are less likely to arise or become provided when you are half alive. Until you put your heart and soul into everything you do don't expect to create or attract greater opportunities to do what you love. Why would you attract opportunities to do greater careers when you haven't managed the one your have? Why would a company promote you if you have not done an outstanding job where you are? When you do more than what is expected of you, you increase the probability of creating greater opportunities. Below, are five action steps you can take that will help you love what you do.

A: Acquire a piece of plain white paper.

B: Tri-fold this paper long ways so that there are three equally wide columns.

C: Write on the left one third of this piece of paper a list of your present daily job duties or responsibilities.

D: Write on the right one third of this piece of paper a list of your most inspiring values, mission, goals, or objectives.

E: Write on the middle one third of this piece of paper a final list of at least 7 ways in which each of these job duties or responsibilities you are presently doing are helping you achieve your values, mission, goals or objectives.

At first you may imagine that the present job duties are interfering with your goals, but a deeper look will help you see that they are helping you in many ways to develop valuable traits or special talents needed in your life for the fulfillment of your true values, mission, goals and objectives. Wisdom is discovering that everything you experience and do can serve your purpose. Now, keep making that list, expand your mind beyond any previous limitations until you can truly see how what you are presently doing is a magnificent blessing. This will raise your energy level, confidence, self-worth and creativity. This will infuse vitality back into your daily life, and make you radiate a new enthusiasm for what you are doing. This is the best state to be in to attract new career opportunities and leads.

Second:

Now, it is time to dream a little and initiate a plan of what you would love to do. To fail to plan is to plan to fail. Masters of life focus on the ever-finer details of their master plan. They leave little to chance. If you don't plant flowers in your mental garden you will forever pull weeds. If you don't decide what you would truly love to do, you will end up living out someone else's vocational dreams. Your career dreams are up to you. So get out another few pieces of paper or your computer and start planning. Ask the following seven questions. The quality of your life is based upon the quality of the questions you ask yourself.

A. What would you absolutely love to do? What are you perfectly designed to do? What are you great at doing? What inspires you?

B. How could you become handsomely or beautifully paid to do it? How can you do this in such a way that others will value it, pay you for it, and will want to support you or invest in you? What are all the ways you could receive financial compensation for doing this?

C. What are the seven highest priority actions you could do today and then each succeeding day that would help you bring this loving career into reality? What are the action steps that will bring about this career opportunity?

D. What obstacles could you run into and how do you solve them in advance? What are your contingency plans in case of setbacks? What are your alternative pathways of doing this?

E. How can you fulfill or accomplish this career path more effectively and efficiently? Who in your network do you know that could assist?

F. How could whatever you experience whether supportive or challenging serve you?

By asking the above questions you will stimulate your brain, capitalize on your mind's creativity and begin building that long overdue master career plan. If you don't plan and then act, it is even more unlikely that you will ever do what you love. You have this accountability. Once you begin designing your master plan you will begin noticing the many supportive opportunities that surround you. By working toward what you love you make what you love work towards you. When you plan with your heart and soul and patiently persevere with your mind and body you can first learn to love what you do and second begin to do what you love. Yes it is possible!

Love and Wisdom,
Dr. John Demartini