CAREER ADVICES
Commit to Using It to Enrich Your Life
There is no use in finding your gift and then sitting on it and stay the same. Your gift is a trading opportunity and it makes you a wanted and needed commodity. I remember as early as my second grade I was the kid whom every teacher wanted, because I spoke out, I engaged in class.
I always tried, at that time as a poor child, my active participation in class became my trade, because my teachers rewarded me with supporting the family for making their time at school worth it. Shockingly, I only learnt a set of years ago is that it was my blessing or gift in action, speaking inspirationally or with influence that had teachers in awe and willing to go all the way to secure a decent living for a child who was the poorest of the poorest.
So find your gift and then trade with it to enrich your life.
Identify & Understand Environments that are Conducive for the Exploration and Expression of your gift.
Once the first three steps have been successfully undertaken and you are now clear about which career path you are going to follow, there is an even more damning exercise one needs to engage in, finding a place where one will create new value and the place will in turn add value to oneself. All my life I wanted to be a speaker, I spent years through varsity trying to win over the right and big names in the industry. Guess what, in 2013 I was employed by the name I wanted, to do the kind of job I wanted, speaking. However, my stay there only lasted three months and I could not find sense in my being there.
The employer and workplace had nothing to do with what I felt, it was the fact that for my gifts, the place was just not conducive for me to explore what I had already set in motion fully and experience its pleasures in the form of an enriched life. What was prime in my life, was not prime for me at the company and there was no negotiating with a system that required me to deliver at certain levels, whereas I wanted to perform and explore certain areas of my gift with no limits and conditions.
To avoid this, invest time in learning about the different companies that can make use of the skills you have. Find synergy and areas you will be able to perform at your maximum ability. Take the time to understand the environment and insure that your participation is not just a means to earn a salary, but a grand expression of what the purpose and meaning of your life is. These sum up the simple steps we need to follow in finding our dream careers. If you knew this before reading this article, then I am sure we would be in agreement that making a career choice is an extremely simple exercise that just requires patience, a plan and a willing spirit grounded in faith. If you read this for the first time, it is never too late to start knowing yourself, your gifts, your opportunities and the wisdom of By all the RAMATSELELA F above. May the favour of your will take you to your destination.
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