5 Reasons Why Career Is Very Important In Your Life
When you factor out sleep, your job is pretty much half of your life. That’s no small amount. So, if your job is something you either hate or are indifferent about, that’s about half of your life you either hate or are indifferent about. Not good.
We will spend a significant amount of time at work, so it’s important to make sure that time isn’t killing your soul.
The simple fact that career is a significant portion of one’s life should be enough to convince one of the importance of it. Be we’ll continue on.
If you think your work won’t affect who you are outside of the office, think again.
Many people who hate their job also develop unhealthy habits. Some of those habits can be emotionally eating, alcohol, drugs, television, depression, or simply being quick to anger.
When our work is unfulfilling, we need to cope somehow. These coping mechanisms can have significant negative effects. They involve avoiding the issue rather than addressing it directly.
Having a career that aligns with who you are will make you an energetic, positive, and makes your life outside of work better. Your friends and family will notice the difference between when you like what you do and when you don’t.
When I meet someone at a party they inevitably ask “What do you do?”
Notice how they ask it. They don’t ask “What do you do for money?” or “What do you do for work?” They are essentially asking “What do you do in life?”
Career is a large part of our identity. Usually, we have more than one identity. I identify with my job, but I also identify as someone who loves to learn, as someone who’s into fitness, as a friend, son, brother, etc.
Work is one of the larger parts of our identity. It’s the first question we ask and get asked when meeting someone. This is because it is one of the largest portions of our lives. It nearly defines everything else.
Of all your identities it’s the one you spend the most time being. So, it’s not something you want to neglect.
As humans, we need responsibility. We do our best when there are people counting on us. We need to feel like our actions are making a difference in the world.
Work provides direction and purpose in our lives. With fulfilling work, we know there is a community of people who are counting on us. A place where we’re needed. A place where what we do matters.
This last one might seem odd, but it is the truest and most important reason I can provide you with. If you don’t find what it is you are best at and meant to do, you are denying your actual self and making the world a tad bit darker.
When we don’t do what we love, our life begins to slowly fall apart. People compensate for their lack of love at work by drinking, eating, or wasting time in other meaningless activities. Stephen King has mentioned that if he didn’t become a writer, he would have been an alcoholic. Writing, his life’s passion, pulled him together and made him stronger.
Finding your passion is not only crucial to yourself, it affects your family, friends, relationships, and the world at large. You have a gift that the world needs, and to not foster it is to rob the world of that gift.
As Robert Green said in the book Mastery, “It is a matter of life and death.”
In the end, finding fulfilling work doesn’t have to take a lifetime, but it will take patience. In your journey you’ll have jobs you hate. But if they’re a stepping stone to the job you are crazy about, then they’re important.
Top Ten Reasons Why You Need A Coach:
- Your life, business, career, relationship, etc., is already good, but you want it to be much, much better.Coaching isn’t a crisis intervention. Nor is it a substitute for psychotherapy, or advice from a professional such as an attorney, accountant, physician, etc.
- You want YOU to be much, much better.Just because most things are going well, doesn’t mean you don’t want to improve them and that includes yourself.
- You’re going through a big transition.Change can be difficult, even when it’s what you want. Anytime you go through a big transition such as starting a new business or career, moving to a new city, going back to school, etc.; it’s a great time to have someone who believes in you and who can help you make the most crucial choices as smoothly as possible.
- You’re a high achiever. High achievers tend to be driven and good at success, but they don’t always create the success they really want.
- You want more meaning in your life.“Meaning” is what makes your heart sing. It generally comes from doing what matters most to you. This gets much easier when you understand what you most value and find cool ways to express it.
6.You want to take better care of yourself.Most of us were taught to take pretty good care of ourselves. That’s fine if you want an average life. But people who accomplish great things often need to upgrade their lives tremendously before that’s even possible.
7.You want to upgrade the people in your life.I don’t know about you, but I used to choose my friends according to who I had the most fun with. They weren’t always the nicest or most evolved people. Eventually, I realized I wanted to upgrade my friendships. Then I realized (gulp), I needed to upgrade myself in order to attract the people I wanted to spend more time with.
8.You want to make more money.It might seem crass to bring up money right after talking about meaning, values, high standards and good friends, but let’s face it, a great life or career usually includes enough money, sometimes lots of it.
9.You’re willing to invest in yourself.This is about so much more than money. Are you prepared to take the time, effort, risk and yes, money, in order to have the life or business of your dreams? Or are you satisfied playing small? Are you ready to stop talking about your dreams and start living them? If you had the right coach in your corner, would you have the courage to step into your greatness? Only you can answer that.
10. Be Accountable
Coaches hold you accountable. They give you someone to answer to. When you are accountable to someone, you get more done.
MAKE YOUR LIFE A MASTERPIECE
Developing Soft Skills
Soft skills have always been essential for developing effective leaders. But today, with teams spread out working from home they are even more important than ever.
So, if you are serious and you really want to improve in all areas of your life you know for sure for things to change you need to change for yourself first so that you can be the better version of yourself and take your career to the next level by enrolling to the course Success For Career Growth. In this course you will learn how to accelerate your career no matter in which ever field you are by learning the fundamental things that will help you in your career.
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