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#1: Your BIGGEST Problem

Working is highly overrated and so is earning a paycheck. A dream job is an outlet where you achieve and feel fulfilled. You want a dream job because you want to feel like you have a purpose. You have this when you feel like you are making a difference. You are making a difference when you are helping other people.
Who do you want to help? How do you want to serve more people?

If you help other people get what they want, you will get everything you want.

You have been living someone else’s life. You were taught as a child to fit into society. This is good if you want to remain outside of prison. However, it is very bad if you want to find your calling.

This book will teach you how to live your life. To set your own rules. To play your game. To have the courage to say: “I will not settle anymore and I am tired of listening to other people.” When you do this, you set your own standards and you are able to enjoy the process of life and appreciate when you have achieved your goal. Imagine yourself living by your standards and the freedom that comes with that!

Success is much easier than fulfillment. Why? It’s because success is external and fulfillment is internal. It is much more challenging to identify your own standards than to borrow those of others. And the real benefit of stealing other people’s standards is that if you fail, you can blame them, not yourself. This is the benefit, but now my hope is that you will see the pain this is causing you. There is also no fulfillment with external motivators.

The reason it is so vital to set your own rules, is because when you find your dream job you might not even know it. I know a man who works in Management Consulting, travels the globe working with the smartest people in the world, and he earns over a million dollars a year. He is successful but very unfulfilled. He hates his job. He is never doing enough. He is constantly comparing himself to other people and no matter how much money he makes or how many interesting projects he works on, he is always comparing himself to the next person above him. He is achieving, but he is not fulfilled. My goal for you is to have both.

A dream job is where both your talents and interests collide. Your talents will allow you to achieve, and your interests will allow you to be fulfilled. Your next dream job must have both.

#29: Two Most Important Predictors of Success

According to Positive Psychology researcher Shawn Achor, “The two most important predictors of success are, first, whether we believe our behaviour matters, that is, whether we think we can make a real difference—and many people lose that belief in hard times, because so much is out of their control,” Achor says. “And second, how do you manage stress? Does it paralyze you, or does it move you forward to action?”

Coming in paperback soon to a bookstore near you.

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