Do this and see opportunities come your way
Another friend quit his successful job this week because he was miserable doing it.
We see this happen all around us because, as a culture, we reduce the criteria around work to a measly two core dimensions: what we’re good at and what pays. That’s pretty much it. The problem is that if we treat ourselves as a commodity, we will experience being one. Not fun.
Here’s an incomplete list of the many other things we fail to incorporate into our strategy:
Solving higher-level problems can dramatically increase the demand for what we do and how much we enjoy it.
How seasons of life affect our ability to be effective. What we enjoyed was needed of us in one season can start producing diminishing returns in another.
How shifting from being in near-constant survival mode to a daily creative mode can supercharge our professional journey.
Having a reliable radar for what is coming beyond the visible horizon can help us avoid unexpected shifts in the marketplace and the culture around us. Examples include culture, progressive ideology, marketplace, and AI.
Designing a life aligned with our gifts, temperament, and calling can create lifelong flourishing.
What may seem surprising in this incomplete list is that most of this has very little to do with our skills and much more to do with our beliefs.
I dive deeper into strategies to recalibrate and reinvent a career in my next free webinar on March 9th, noon CST.
You are a brand.
A brand is not a logo - it’s what people feel and experience around you. Interacting with you in life, work, and/or community is an experience that tends to be consistent.
If you want a better life - elevate your personal brand.
There has never been a point where your brand mattered more than it does today. If you can dare to show up and own your strengths - there are people out there looking for what you have to offer.
You don’t lack resources; you lack resourcefulness. The first step towards a better future is to stop hiding.
Stop hiding behind the limitations of your board, boss, spouse, industry, and the dozens of other excuses you attach to your limiting beliefs.
In the latest episode of Headspace, I explain how elevating your personal brand can change your life.
What I’m watching: One Love - a film about the life and music of Bob Marley. The movie is about the music, skirting some of the less inspiring aspects of Marley’s biography - and I don’t mind that. Brilliant music and an artist-prophet gone too soon.
What I’m reading: Obsessing over chapter one of my Little Book of Big Reasons to Love America. I’ll post it chapter by chapter for my paid subscribers, who will get a signed copy once we publish it. The first chapter is dropping on Wednesday.
What you may have missed: If you haven’t tuned into or subscribed to alerts to my Headspace YouTube channel, every Wednesday at noon central - we stream a live conversation with a top expert in an area of human flourishing I find particularly interesting. The last couple of streams:
Train your Brain for Success - Dr. Loretta Breuning.
How do Sex, Love, and Marriage help with Career Success? - Dr Joe Beam.
I’m grateful for your attention and time. Thank you!