Find your strengths
If you want to break-out and start living a life that is different then you need to find your real strengths. Not necessarily those that you put on your CV – this isn’t an attempt to present yourself in the best light for an employer, this is for you to work out what you want to do with your life.
“What to do with your life” seems like such a grand statement and it is, but what we are really doing is working out what you can do, what you want to do, what will make you happy in the moment.
Productivity guru David Allen, the inventor of the Getting Things Done (GTD) phenomenon talks in his latest book about being in a “state of flow” when you are doing something which totally encompasses you, some work or play that so captures your attention that time becomes irrelevant and your focus is only on one thing. You also can do this activity without significant pressure or stress, that is not to say the task has to be easy, in fact it might challenge you.
What is that for you? Have a think, spend some time writing down what does that for you – both in your personal life, work-life, at any point.
Don’t dismiss this – it may turn out to be the starting point for your new career and your new life. We’ll look another time at how this might be done.
