Take Up Your Life's Work

The first step starts with identify the type of work you would be great at. By discovering your unique combination of life paths and life calling, you can define specifically the type of work you are looking for, and the career paths that pay you to do it.

Once you know your career path, you are ready to drill down and discover the specific profession, trade and job title you are drawn to. Usually you have several good options after you do some basic research into what your day would be like on each job.

With a good idea of the profession and job titles you are interested in, it is time to discover the best industries for you. Knowing your life calling helps you quickly pinpoint the industries that are a good match. And a little research helps you confirm you are interested in the places and problems that industry focuses on.

Once you know the career, job title and industry ... you are left with deciding on the specific companies that are the best match for your values, lifestyle and long term career and life plans. Although it may seem daunting ... if you know what you are looking for it is easy to tell which company cultures are the best fit.

With the four major factors narrowed down, it is an easy task to describe your dream job. With that in hand, it is time to go looking for it and see where it exists. Here is where dreams and reality meet ... and often several options will emerge as dream jobs. These can be one job you hold over a lifetime or a series of great jobs that define a dream career.

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Having found your life's work and your dream job ... and done some research about what it really requires to get hired and succeed at it, it is time to put together a plan to become the dream candidate for it ... so you are the only person your future boss wants to hire.

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With a clear plan, it is time to get to work preparing for your life's work. Here is where schooling, work experience and a lot of hard work come in to acquire the skills, knowledge, background, insights, and judgment needed for your life's work.

With a great resume that highlights you as the dream candidate, it is time to go get hired for your life's work. Doing the research into current industry and company problems, issues, need and opportunities means you are prepped to interview the best companies to see who is the best match and start negotiating benefits and responsibilities.

Getting a great job is one thing, succeeding at it is another. So it is time to get focused on dialing in to the new job in your first 90 days. Then gaining experience every day at working hard and working smart to excel and climb the mountain of success. You want to become the hidden treasure every boss dreams of ... and make your boss glad every single day that he or she hired you.

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When you have gained a lot of industry experience and grown so much that your skills, achievements, insights and expertise exceed what one company can use or reward ... you might want to start your dream business. Here is a chance to share all of your expertise across an industry, for selected companies, or with clients you love.