How To Find Your Work Passion – Episode 544  

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[00:01] Welcome to the Prosperity Podcast. Prosperity thinkers, we’re going to be talking about how to find what you love doing. We mentioned this in another episode. This may be one of those where you want to gather in a few other people that are still trying to figure out their path. And Kim, we’re going to dive deep into this right now. Sound like a plan? Yes. Excellent. I love this. Yes. So, one, I think the elephant in the room is this. There’s an epidemic, we’ll call it, for a lot of the younger people in this world, and older as well, that are trying to find what they love. And we’ve heard the saying, which is follow your passion. And for me, I don’t like that saying. I say, do what you’re good at, or follow the work that interests you and that you

[01:02] happen to be, you know, God-given work. More or less, it goes down that path. But for you, Kim, how are you approaching this and helping clients, children, or maybe clients once they’ve reached a certain milestone? Well, there is a variety of online help that can be given. I have one in particular that is just paramount in terms of what it tells us as human beings that can guide us to find work that we love, because when we find work we love, then we don’t have to retire. We can truly do that work all the time and, frankly, be better mothers, fathers, siblings, human beings, friends, et cetera, because we are working and we have a sense of purpose and we are gratified because of that. So my favorite, favorite tool in the world is an online profile.

[01:57] It’s fifty five dollars. It’s worth every penny. And it’s called the Colby A, K-O-L-B, as in boy E, Colby A profile. A stands for adults. There is a let’s see, a Y for youth. I think there is also a K for kids, which would be even younger. And it is so, so helpful to identify God given talent, put some English words around it and enable you to get super, super clear about finding work that you love so that truly, if you want to view work as a bad four letter word, then you don’t ever work another day in your life because you’re just using your God given talent and doing what you love. So that’s first. Now, if somebody is in their later high school, you know, maybe they’re in college or their college age, so they’re, you know, that 18 to 22 year

[02:50] old range, that is a super helpful guiding tool that they can get online, take, spend a fifty five dollars and then use that to find work that they love and if they can start out that way, that’s super valuable. Nevertheless, it is still difficult as young adults to really make sure. And it sometimes takes a little bit of trial and error. So I think this is also a very, very important message. And that is that if you’re not clear, just find work that you think is close and start doing the work that you think is close and then figure out, is this really for you or not using your Colby profile as a guideline? And let’s remember that there are 24 hours in every day. So you have eight hours of work.

[03:41] Maybe it’s not the work you love, but that’s OK, because there’s eight hours to sleep, let’s throw four into the category of eating, showering, working out, having some spiritual time, right? All very important things that still leaves you four hours with which to do the research that is necessary to possibly find another role that you could play or maybe begin some intern work or volunteer work or a second job that’s part time that might be in an industry that you’re curious about while still maintaining your eight hour job to pay the bills. And I realize I didn’t build commute time in there, but again, with so many virtual opportunities and, you know, maybe you’re four hours of cleaning up and eating and whatever is also commute time.

[04:36] It’s so, so important. There’s another tool that I want to share, and that is Tammy Brannon’s Blueprint Process. So you can go to BlueprintProcess.com. She’s my sister. She has a unique process that she offers that helps people get a little clearer on their passions and how they could apply those passions in the work environment. And again, used as a guideline to figure out work that they love. But I really just encourage people to get out there and experiment to work through the Colby information. You know, there’s others. There’s the strengths finders from Clifton. I think that one’s 20 bucks or so. Even the personality profiles are somewhat helpful. You know, if it’s a free personality profile,

[05:21] you have to be kind of careful with it because it’s free. That should tell you something. Nevertheless, you know, it can guide you a little bit. Self-knowledge is so, so valuable in whatever form it comes. But then also, so is just getting out and doing the work and figuring out, is this really right for me? Furthermore, it’s so important that we’re just serving. And sometimes we have to love what we do before we can really find out the love that is truly made for us in our work so that we love what we do. So the verb love, sometimes that has to come first. We have to love where we are sometimes first before we get to love what we do. So we have to love what we do where we are before. Maybe, maybe not.

[06:19] Sometimes people can hit it right away. I didn’t. You know, it took trial and error for me for three or four or five years. And frankly, I have to go through it again. You know, as my business has grown and shifted, I feel like every 10 years or so, I have a little bit of a midlife crisis and I rejigger some things and tighten up this and loosen up that and hit it for another 10 years in a better environment. If we’re not doing that, we’re asleep at the wheel. Yeah, that’s sad. You know, the other element I want to throw into this mix is the element of technology and the speed that’s happening. So recently, you know, with what’s happening with chat, GPT and everything like that, we’ve had a just a year of that technology.

[07:08] But we have advanced a decade in that year. And we now have so many components for us to explore and things to do that simply weren’t possible in the past. For you, you said, it’s changing up yourself every decade. You know, you haven’t to do that, which means that you’re pushing yourself. So how do you take the wisdom you have of chem now and go to the decade before with all the tools, experiences and everything and say, OK, chem of past, here’s what I suggest. I think that’s an age old question and a challenging one. And yet this is the work that the mental work that gets us such good results. So just like with our money, when we can measure backwards, when we can look back at the decade that has just passed

[08:09] and learn from that and roll forward with it because of the experiences that we have gone through in that past decade. It really puts us in so much of a more positive frame of mind, a less fearful frame of mind, because we can see the good that has come already. Whereas if all we’re doing is looking in the future and I’m a very, very future oriented person. And so I look in the future, but I don’t measure by the future. So I’m I’m always looking out 10 or 20 years, but I’m not measuring myself between where I am today and where I am in the future. I learned this from Dan Sullivan. He’s written a book about it called The Gap and the Gain with Dr. Benjamin Hardy and the measuring backwards again,

[08:59] whether it’s talking about money or just learnings, progress in life, any of that kind of thing. If we can turn for a moment and measure the progress that we’ve made, measure how we’ve how far we’ve come from last week to this week, last year to this year, 10 years ago to now, even again around our money. So, so important to measure the progress. Then we can look forward with not goals. And I’m not saying that goals are completely bad thing, but I think that can be very limiting. Instead, look forward with a vision. A vision is something that is a little unclear, but it’s out there and it may or may not be attainable. And we don’t measure by it. We let it inspire us. And so that space between where we are now

[09:54] and where we’re headed towards that vision is what inspires us. Whereas what we’re measuring again is the progress that we’ve made that is already behind us. It’s a very, very important mindset shift. OK, tie in one last thing for us, if you can. So where would you put in the mix? You mentioned the vision. And so shifting maybe from from goals to vision, where do you tie in the habits, routines and behavior? I love that. So those are all very, very short term things. Like a habit is usually a daily thing or a weekly thing. Behaviors and routines, those are usually daily or weekly. And they’re uber critical for our ongoing progress. And so if we aren’t feeling like we’re getting the results that we want or we’ve looked back and measured,

[10:55] but we feel like we want the next decade to be a little bit different. It’s the habits and the routines that we want to shift. And so B.J. Fogg has a great work called Tiny Habits on making slight small shifts. In fact, he even has some songs. He’s written some songs about making habit shifts. And they’re so instrumental in our thinking, because, first of all, all change starts in our thinking first and then plays out in our life and our habits and our routines and how we spend our time. So, again, if this is an area that’s important to you, I really encourage you to look closely at your time, carve out some of the things that are habits that are not serving you, like maybe too much TV watching

[11:50] or too much social media scrolling or fill in the blank and carve in time for reflection, for spiritual endeavors, for things that inspire you, et cetera, so that you can make those habitual shifts and those changes in your routine. Because you’re not going to get to a different place if you keep doing what you’ve been doing. Absolutely. And for listeners, if this is one of those episodes you listen to with kids or grandkids, give us a comment. You know, let us know what’s working. And there’s one other component to this, which is oftentimes, depending on the new endeavor that you want to do, the thing that you love, there’s a money component that’s required. You have a friend in southern Utah, Michael, who now went from,

[12:51] you know, call it urban living to now lives in the suburbs. And he picked up the hobby of racing cars. It’s not exactly cheap. That’s something that you have to have money and do. And so some of the new things that we want to do require additional money. If that’s the case, then one, going through and setting a budget is not going to get you there. It’s going to be a vision and a bigger vision than that. And so if any of you are looking at setting up something larger than life or wanting to have that conversation, send an email to hello at ProsperityThinkers.com and it’s exclusively for podcast listeners. And that way, the vision expands. You’re playing a different game at that point. Thank you for listening to the Prosperity podcast to take control

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