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It's a lot easier to spot the perfect thing once you've specified what would make the thing perfect.
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You'll
Know It When You See It…Or Will You?
What Do Finding a Job and Dating Have in
Common?
Last
month, over fifty people joined us at the Jobing.com Phoenix office
for the workshop: Now
What? Go from Thinking About a Career Change to Acting On It.
One of the thoughts I shared with the group is that in many ways,
looking for your ideal job closely resembles dating. Some groans
from the crowd ensued. Nevertheless, creating a wish list of the
characteristics of your ideal job (or ideal mate) does two things:
1) It clarifies what’s most important to you; 2) It enables
you to more easily recognize that custom-fit opportunity when
it presents itself.
Your 3-Column Wish List
To
create a wish list of your ideal job, ideal mate, or some other
ideal opportunity you’d like to manifest, make three columns
on a sheet of paper with these headings: Must Have, Nice
To Have, Deal Breaker. Then, start to fill in the details
of your criteria under each column. The first two columns are
the features of a job that you require or would like to be present
and the third column — the deal breakers — are those
conditions or qualities of a job that you simply will not accept.
Two tips:
- Don’t worry if you come up blank at first. Just start
filling it out and more things will come to you over time.
- If you’re looking for a job in the immediate future
and you feel like it’s a stretch to consider the ideal
right now, go ahead and make the list anyway. Even if you don’t
get everything you want right away, you’ll be moving closer
in the right direction.
Make Sure You'll Recognize It
Many people think they’ll know it when they see it, yet
two things often get in the way of recognizing a good opportunity:
1) Not taking the time to ponder things in your heart and consider
what will make you happy; 2) Not keeping your eyes open or expecting
good things to happen.
It’s a lot easier to spot the perfect thing once
you’ve specified what would make the thing perfect!
It’s not that you have to have the exact picture or every
single detail figured out. You just need to have imagined
enough so that when opportunities arise you can respond appropriately.
“What we see depends mainly on what
we look for.”
— John Lubbock
Here's to you,
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Virginia
Kravitz, Career
and Life Coach, has always
had a fierce desire to be
in the full current of life.
She founded In
the Current™ to
help accomplished professionals
use their restlessness as
the door to something bigger
and to start living with
a greater sense of joy and
abandon. Ginny is a recognized
Life Blueprint™ coach
and authorized facilitator
of the Now
What™ career and
life direction program, as
well as an authorized trainer
of the OASIS
in the Overwhelm strategies.
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