June 11th, 2009
When my 9 to 5 is quickly putting me in humdrum mode, I dream about what I would do if I could do anything. Sometimes I’m Carrie Bradshaw typing away on my Apple laptop and having lunches with friends and other times I envision working at a magazine. Have you ever let your inner child loose too and imagined what it would be like if you could live the life of your wildest fantasies?
If you have, I bet you never thought that you could actually make that dream come true. And I’m talking everything from a chocolatier to a TV Producer. “If you dream it, they will come.”
There’s a company called, “Vocation Vacations” that let you test-drive your dream job for one to three days. This way you can actually make your dreams come true, experience the job for yourself and in the eyes of a mentor and then decide if it’s still a fantasy or a nightmare.
The downside? The price is a bit steep ranging from $549-1199. However, this might be worth the investment if it saves you time and money and furthers your decision to follow your dreams. Check out their website for more info.
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June 8th, 2009
I subscribe to newsletters from “Green Career Central,” written by its founder Carol McClelland, PhD. It’s a great resource for anyone looking into a new career and specifically for those on a hunt for an eco-friendly one. In her recent newsletter she included a link to a video about the “8 Secrets of Success” by Richard St. John. The video was so compelling that I decided to include it here. If you’ve got 3 minutes, take a look see. You may find answers to the questions you’re looking for. I know I did!
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May 16th, 2009
I had a lightbulb moment when I realized that ALL people regardless of social status and class, go through moments of uncertainty.
Though it’s easy to get lost in the familiar tunes of “woe is me,” it also doesn’t really suit your cause. If your cause is to fulfill your dreams. I just got this a few days ago as I was typing away thinking about how that BIG space in front of me that points to my future was still empty and I still didn’t understand how I would get from where I was standing to where I wanted to be. I started to fantasize about all of the successful people in my life and the ones on TV and thought about how they were so lucky that they had life figured out and didn’t need to think about these things like me. And then it hit me! They still had challenges like everyone else but maybe that mountain in front of them is that much bigger because they had already climbed all those bunny slopes before then. What a wake up call that was.
I thought about Oprah’s story the one that she tells of not knowing whether she could make it on TV and the funny moment when she pronounced Canada CON-YA-DA and started laughing live on camera. That’s when they put her on a morning talking show and in an instance she knew that that’s what she was meant to do. It reminds me a lot of hiking. When you see that mountain up ahead, sometimes it’s hard to struggle and put in the effort especially when there are days you doubt whether you’ll make it. But I realized that all you need to do when your in moments of self-doubt and uncertainty, is do what Finding Nemo’s Dory says, “Just keep swimming…” and somehow that blank empty space in front of you will transform into steps, tiny at first, but then it’ll become clearer and more certain and soon you’ll be there-right at your goal!
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April 27th, 2009
John and Sherry did it when they decided to go from advertising copywriters of a well-known ad agency to Sherry working full-time on their delicious blog This Young House. David Wroblewski nailed it when he went from successful software programmer to first time best-selling novelist of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. What do they have in common? They took that big leap into the world of the unknown.
At every fork in the road, we have two choices: we can either take the easy road and save our dreams for a rainy day or we can venture out even before we feel ready to meet fear head on and take that leap. Before I started writing again, I thought that I had to wait for something, for permission, a sign, anything, to make sure I was on the right path. What I learned was that to do something you want to do…you actually have to do it! What a concept. The difficult part, however, is to deal with the fears that starts to come up when you want your dream to be more than something that happens when you’re asleep. Questions like, “Will I be good enough?” start to creep up. Right now, I’m working on an article that hopefully will get published. It’s exciting yet scary. It’s easier to stay where you are then to take that big leap into the unknown. But whenever I get to that scary place, I remember that millions of people have already done what I’m doing, and they survived…even better than that is that they lived!
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