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February 2004 : Issue 21
Editor: Tara West
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> Welcome
> Article: Finding Your True Calling by Brian Tracy
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> Writing Your Résumé - Part 6 – Career Snapshot
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ARTICLE:
Finding Your True Calling
by Brian Tracy
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In my courses on time management, I point out that the very worst use of time
in life is to stay at a job for months and years for which you are completely
unsuited. There are a great number of people who spend their whole lives doing
something during the week so that they can somehow find something enjoyable to
do on the weekends.
In every case, these are men and women with very little future before them. They
look upon their jobs as a form of drudgery, a penance they have to pay in order
to enjoy the rest of their lives. And because of this attitude, they will seldom
advance or be promoted. They will stay pretty much at the level they are, moving
from job to job, and always wondering why other people seem to be living the
good life while they feel like they are living lives of quiet desperation.
People who are not successful and happy in their work are those who have not
taken the time to sit down and deal honestly and openly with themselves. They
have not looked deep within themselves to find the inner treasures of talent and
ability that they have demonstrated throughout their lives. They are content to
do work that other people design and to achieve goals that other people have
set.
Over time, people who are not following their true callings begin to feel
helpless. They feel that there is nothing they can do to change things. Their
income only rises enough to meet their expenditures, and they worry about money
all the time. The future looks to them to be very much the same as the past. But
this is not for you. Your aim in life is to become everything you are capable of
becoming, to enjoy full self- expression of your talents and abilities. Your job
is to develop yourself to the point where every day is a source of joy and
satisfaction, and you have so many interesting things to do that you do not have
enough time to do them. Your job is to continually hold up a mirror to yourself
and refuse to work at anything that is not an expression of everything that is
good and capable within you.
Success comes from being excellent at what you do. The market only pays
excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average
performance and below-average rewards and insecurity for below-average
performance.
But excellence is a journey, not a destination. You never really get there. You
can never relax. The market is always changing and what constitutes excellence
today wil
l b
e different tomorrow and very different next year and the year after.
All really successful and happy people know in their hearts that they are very
good at what they do. If you are doing what you really love and enjoy, if you
are following your true calling, you will know because of your attitude toward
excellence.
When you have found your true calling, nothing but the best will do for you, and
you will go any distance, pay any price, overcome any obstacle to develop
yourself to the point where you are really good at your occupation.
When you find your true calling, you will have a continuous desire to learn more
about it. People who are not driven to learn more about their fields are people
who are in the wrong jobs. And if a person is in the wrong job and not
constantly learning and growing in their field, their value and their
employability is diminishing with each passing day.
When you find your true calling, you wil
l be determined to join the top 10 percent of people in your field. You wil
l b
e willing to pay any price that is necessary to rise to the top. You will be
willing to start a little earlier, work a little harder, and stay a little
later. You will take additional courses on the evenings and weekends. You will
see technology as an opportunity to do your job better. You wil
l be interested in the various learning programs that you can install on your
computer that can help you learn better and faster. You wil
l be hungry for new knowledge in your quest to move upward in your chosen field.
A simple test as to whether or not you are in your true calling is this: If you
are doing the job that is meant for you, that uses your unique talents and
abilities, you will automatically admire those who are at the top of your field.
You will look up to them and want to be like them. They wil
l b
e your role models and you will pattern your work and activities after them.
You will want to meet them, talk to them, read their books, and listen to their
talks. The very best people in your chosen field wil
l become the examples that give you guidance, both spoken and unspoken, on your
upward journey. Throughout the years, I have been continually asked by people
what they can do to be more successful. In almost every case, they are working
in jobs that they don’t like, for bosses they don’t particularly respect,
producing or selling products or services to customers they don’t care about.
And many of them think that if they just hang in there long enough, the clouds
will part and everything will get better.
But the fact is that you are where you are and who you are because you have
chosen to be there. Nobody can help you or change your situation for you. The
economic goal of your company is to hire people at the very lowest cost so that
they can serve customers at the very lowest cost in a competitive market. For
this reason, no one has any obligation to pay you any more than you are getting.
If possible, they would like to pay you less.
The one thing I tell people over and over again is that they must become very
good at doing what they are doing if they want to move up. And if they don’t
have the inner desire to be very good at their jobs, it means they are probably
in the wrong jobs.
The great tragedy is the number of people who do their job in an average or
mediocre fashion with the idea that, when the right job comes along, they will
really put their heads down and do a good job. But for some reason, the right
job never comes along. They are always passed over for promotion and
advancement. They are always the last ones hired and the first ones laid off.
If you’re still not sure about your true calling, ask the people the closest
to you. Ask them, “What do you think I would be the very best at doing with my
life?” It is absolutely amazing how people around you, including your spouse,
your best friends, and your parents can see clearly what you should be doing
when often you cannot see it yourself.
Remember, you are put on this earth to do something wonderful with your life.
You have within you talents and abilities so vast that you could never use them
all if you lived to be a thousand. You have the natural skills and talents that
can enable you to overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal you could ever set
for yourself. There are no limits on what you can be, have, or do if you can
find your true calling, and then throw your whole heart into doing what you are
made to do in an excellent fashion.
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About Brian Tracy
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us.
~ William Morrow ~
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WRITING YOUR RÉSUMÉ - PART 6 -
CAREER SNAPSHOT
Each month we'll be providing specific tips on what information you could be
including in your résumé.
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A career snapshot immediately informs the hiring manager of your capabilities
and gives an idea of your natural career progression. Ideally, this
section should be listed either on the first page or at the very top of page
two.
When writing résumés we use a snapshot to entice – never losing sight of
the fact that your résumé is a marketing tool. If there are any negative
connotations within one’s employment history, then it is best to leave out
this section entirely. For instance, if you’ve hopped between a number
of different jobs the impression you will give is one of instability; or, worse
still, that you can’t get on with senior staff. Many other scenarios
jump to mind. Of course, this may not be the case at all, but your résumé
can’t be a novel, justifying the ins and outs of your career. Therefore,
it pays to look at your history with a degree of objectivity. Would you
hire you?
A career snapshot is also a great way to show promotion within your career;
if you’ve started out as cinema cleaner and progressed to cinema manager,
that’s terrific!
For senior executive staff, this can immediately demonstrate how long you
have been directing / managing organisations, and more importantly, who those
organisations were.
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