Hello and a warm
welcome this months new subscribers to Jump!
I’m in Valencia, Spain, to soak up the exciting atmosphere of the America’s Cup (New Zealand has made the final and my partner is a kiwi bowman in his spare time!) and with any luck by the time you receive this I shall be soaking up the Spanish sunshine on a yacht while I nibble on tapas and sip champagne sangria!
However before that I thought I’d share with you what I’ve been working on this month. I’ve recognised that in fact all (yes all) of my clients all have one thing in common – their major primary goal on which we work on in coaching tends to be around work – being more effective at their job, finding ways to improve themselves to advance their career, and changing career for one they love.
As a result I’m devising a unique coaching program that helps people work out how to discover fulfilment at work, either in career advancement, but in particular, what their dream job is, and a way of making tracks towards the destination of their perfect profession. I’m hugely excited about this, as I know that many people will benefit from it, and I will love delivering it – a win-win situation!
If this is something that interest you then you will find this month’s ezine will give you a snippet into how coaching with me can support you with your dream job, and what you could get out of it, as always I’m interested in your feedback so let me know what you think!
Until next month,
be loving, be peace, be true, be you,
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Recommendations and offers
Book: What colour is your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career Changes by Richard N. Bolles
I read this book and now, as a career coach, recommend it to job hunters and clients considering a career change.
The book starts off explaining the differences between job hunter and hiring manager strategies. Job hunters scan the want ads, post resumes online, and mail resumes to potential employers. Hiring managers instead look for transferable employees already within their organizations and for candidates recommended by a collegues, friends, or family members. They resort to CVs for candidates they've never met as a last resort.
In light of this dilemma, Bolles discusses issues pertinent job hunter, assisting them in dealing with the problem they face in landing the job. Really valuable information for the job hunter.
In my opinion, the most valuable section, and the one I use frequently with clients considering a job changes, is "Part III Resuming the Search to Find Your Dream." This section contains a systematic approach to discovering your transferable skills and desired job attributes. It walks the reader through exercises for discovering their employable skills and job preferences and helps match those discoveries to a job or career. This section could be considered an alternative to a career skills assessment for the person who is willing to do the in-depth analysis. The exercises are remarkably insightful in helping you to find what it is that you want.
Interestingly enough, the final chapter of the book entitled "How to Find Your Mission in Life," places the search of the dream job in a spiritual context. It puts a very appropriate closing to the "Find Your Dream" section.
Bolles has done job hunters and career changes a great service, thoroughly practical, he asks you questions about your mission in life. His belief is that just getting a job (even ones you are good at) won't be a wise decision in the long haul. He helps you see your passions mixed with skills and experience, and guides you to getting there.
Check it out on Amazon
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Featured Article
Discover your dream career
Are you're succeeding spectacularly at something you don't really want? Do you feel like you’re a round peg in a square hole when it comes to your career? A cog in the big meaningless machine? You feel that your work just doesn’t feel right, it’s not using any or all of your skills, or has anything to do what you’re interested in, and you sit there thinking if only you could have your dream career.
Or maybe you want to go freelance but haven’t taken that step for fear of financial instability? And you just don’t know what to do next to go freelance? Perhaps you feel you don’t have any of the skills or talent required to make that career change, that you your only option is to totally re-train and you don’t have the money/time/energy/desire to do that?.
Maybe you’re thinking, you’re way too old, or there are too many risks to start all over again from scratch with a new career? You are not alone. It is estimated that 75% of workers are still in search of their dream career.
Every single one of my clients have worked with me around a work-related goal, either advancing their current career, transitioning to a new and better role, enhancing their performance, developing their personal interests that fuels them on, and even make a career out of it, yes some come to coaching with me to work on totally change their career to one they truly love. Don’t take my word for it, check out what clients said on the noodlecrayon website
To feel fulfilled at work, in a career we love, doing work we love, your needs and wants play be a big part of what your life is about, not just your personal life but in your working life. Your ideal work would support your personal life, and your personal life would ideally support your working life. The two must be aligned in order that you may feel satisfied, until you feel you are not just contributing back but getting something in return, just by doing the work you love!
Try out the following tips for yourself which I’ve shared with past clients that have had considerable positive impact to getting them to their destination perfect profession!
Action Tips
To Discover Your Dream Career
- Explore your successful past
Explore back to times where you’ve been fulfilled, in your career AND personal life in the past look for clues as to what you enjoyed and are good at. Maybe there might be something from your non-working life that you can bring into your working life as part of your dream career.
From this perspective, you can identify your innate gifts that directly lead to satisfaction at the work place. This is particularly helpful in defining what you love to do and applying those insights to the creation of your dream job.
- Shift from should to love
Once you can clearly identify a barrier that stops you from going for a dream career, learn how to formulate ways to overcome or put them in perspective. Gain clarity about what you want from life by shifting your mindset from thinking of the work you “should” be doing to what you love to do.
If you’ve perhaps you're succeeding spectacularly at something you don't really want, explore ways in which you can discover your vocational passion while you continue being successful at what you don’t really want. Use this time and space while you’re feeling secure enough to explore.
Use your noodle, think hard, dream big and have fun with some creative brainstorming! Use your imagination to conjure up images of what is truly possible. Take career control. Think of building a career you love rather than applying for a job (there is a big difference!) and develop a habit of lifelong learning and self improvement.
- Know yourself well
Get to know yourself, and get to know yourself really well. When you know your true self (and that’s minus the masks, costumes that you adorn or have been adorned with by others) you will find it much easier to know what you really want as a dream career.
When you know yourself, you can identify your mission in life. And with that, you can then see the personal barriers that have kept you from achieving your dreams. Knowing yourself means knowing what’s truly important to you, what your core needs and values are. When I was searching for my dream job, and starting with knowing myself, I discovered that if my dream job could sustain my needs my 3 most core values had to be part of what I did in the work I’d love to do. In discovering more about myself, I discovered my mission in life (read more on my personal mission statement).
Core needs and values are what your basic personal needs that you cannot do without, that you not only need to function but that you value because it fulfils you. Go explore and discover yourself – look at what your core needs and values are. This will be the foundation on which you design your career change around.
There are plenty of people out there who have their dream career, who have developed or changed career to done they love. I’ve done it myself personally and now I help others do it too. You can do it too.
There can be a lot of in-depth work involved in the above 3 tips, but they are 3 vitally essential ingredients to successfully having the career of your dreams. My aim as a coach is to have my clients be in the 25% category who integrate their core needs and values with doing work they truly love, that express who they really are, and supports their desired way of life.
If you’d like to find out more about yourself, how to discover your core needs and values, shift your mindset, and look at the vast possibilities available to you that will fulfil you at work, there is a good possibility we can work together, so get in touch to find out how.
When you do what you love, you will achieve more in less time, get bigger and better results effortlessly, and feel excited to go to work every day!
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Note this quote
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do” Bob Dylan, Musician and Author
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Sharing Soul Sentiments
There are plenty of ways to use this as a useful analogy, but I can’t think of one right now, however I really wanted to share this with you, just for the pure enjoyment of a chuckle it might bring to your day – enjoy!
Think about it
A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.
So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."
So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to heck it against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.
He asks, "what's wrong?
"The word is celebrate," says the old monk
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About Sam Leongtave
Sam Leongtave is a Creative Personal Life and Business Coach, as well as a fully qualified experienced Graphic Designer. She coaches freelance creatives, creative professionals and entrepreneurs, and pretty much anyone else who wants to to be empowered to do what they love, follow their passions and live a life that more fully expresses their choices, who they truly are, personally and professionally. She is the author and publisher of Jump!, and founder of Noodlecrayon Coaching™ |
