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Live Life to the Fullest Through Personal Growth
Note: This is a guest post by Ron Haynes of The Wisdom Journal.
In times past, someone might work for the same company for 40 years, retire, and get that gold watch. Today, people change careers every seven years on average and may take on a position that reports to many people. For the purposes of this article, I estimated that at my company, a store manager may have to report to as many as 33 people on one issue or another. She may report to someone on loss prevention, another person on inventory issues, another on training, another on human resources, another on purchasing, another on receiving and still another on credit issues. Some of these “bosses” may be in different locations or even overseas.
Today’s worker risks a high frustration level because of the multitude of bosses he or she must report to and it’s become a job just to manage all the different priorities that are thrown at one worker. The problem isn’t that multiple bosses ask a worker to do so many things, it’s that they ask the same worker to do so many things at the same time! Conflict becomes inevitable when so many people think their request should be your top priority.
Everyone wants to have a fulfilling life. Unfortunately, many people miss a key ingredient to have it: finding their life purpose. They may spend years of their life only to find at the end that they have done the wrong things. Many others achieve fame and financial success but feel empty inside.
Don’t make the same mistake. Your time is too precious to waste.
Why You Should Find Your Life Purpose
Here are three reasons why you should find your life purpose:
1. It gives meaning to everything you do
Your life purpose makes everything you do meaningful. You could be successful outside, but if you don’t find meaning you will feel empty inside.
2. It directs and guides you
Not only can your life purpose give you meaning, but also it can give you clear direction of where to go in life. It helps you make big decisions in life. People who don’t find their life purpose don’t have a strong foundation upon which to make their decisions. They most likely will just follow popular opinions.
At September 7, 2006, the first post here was published. So it’s now the second anniversary of Life Optimizer!
It’s been one year since I wrote the first anniversary post and I’ve learned a lot since then. I learned not only about blogging but also about personal growth and life in general. That’s what I love about blogging: it speeds up my learning process.
This blog has also experienced healthy growth in the past year. The number of subscribers grew from about 1200 one year ago to about 5400 now. The traffic level, especially organic traffic from search engines, has also increased steadily.
Of course, all these are possible because of you, the reader. Without your support and participation, this blog wouldn’t come anywhere near where it is now. It’s you who motivate me to keep learning and writing.
So let me say this to you:
Thank you!
Note: This is a guest post by Scot Herrick of Cube Rules.
A career is a long time. It is a marathon, not a sprint. To continue a fulfilling career requires reviewing what work you enjoy as your life changes over time. While periodically reviewing your work and your interests make sense, of course, the review does nothing to create the engine that drives a fulfilling career.
That engine needs to be working every day. The marathon completes one step at a time. In a career, the engine that drives your fulfillment is a simple formula:
Skills + Performance = Opportunities
While simple, the formula is a powerful method of driving your career.
Your Job Skills Are the Foundation
At the most fundamental level, hiring managers want you to work for them because you have the skills to do the work needed. Without the baseline skills for a job, there can be no fulfilling career.
Time moves fast and now we have only four months left in 2008. I don’t know about you, but for me it’s a wake-up call reminding me that 2008 will soon pass. If you have goals you want to achieve this year, it’s time to evaluate where you currently are and to use the time left as good as possible.
The theme for this month is Fulfilling Career. Here we will discuss topics such as career planning, how to find and follow our calling, and how to get the most out of our work.
Let’s look back at what happened in August.
Best Posts
There were 13 posts published in August nine of which were related to the monthly theme of Relationships. The most visited posts were:
Since I’m in the business of creating ideas (mainly for this blog), I’m always interested in books about idea creation. Recently I found a book on this topic entitled The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation by Frans Johansson.
Medici Effect is the name given by the author for the explosion of remarkable innovations at the place where different fields meet. The place itself is called the Intersection. Here is the main idea of the book:
The idea behind this book is simple: When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas.
It’s definitely something that interests me. Let’s dig deeper into the book.
Inside The Medici Effect
The book is divided into three parts with a total of fifteen chapters.
