Here’s the goal: create a career that is more exciting to you than anything else you have ever created. Note that a career is a creation, not something you find or something someone else offers you. Your career is also your main source of contribution and it is your opportunity to create real, lasting value. If you don’t have a long-term career goal, now is the time to begin brainstorming. Write down ideas that inspire you, scare you, and energize you like nothing else. The sweet spot, the gem, your ideal career, will encompass your greatest skills and passions, while simultaneously overlapping with what other people want. Let me explain.

Meaning AND Money

Zig Ziglar is famous for saying, “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” If you pursue a career that you love, but no one else cares about it, you will be a phenomenal starving artist. If you help other people by doing things you hate, you will be just like most people, making money but crushing your soul. You want the best of both worlds. Love what you do AND love that it provides a service to others in return for financial prosperity. The goal is meaning AND money. If you lack either one you will not have a career – you will have a hobby or a hellhole. Finding the middle ground is the challenge. It is as much an artistic endeavor as it is a skillful pursuit of willpower.

What your career could be is where the magic lies. Your career could be uplifting. It could be transformational. It could be the fantasy you imagined when you were four years old. The reality is that most people kill their own dreams. They let others squish their goals into tiny, meaningless chores that are only completed out of fear.

You have a choice. Your career could be the best thing that has ever happened to you – an opportunity to change the world. It could also be that thing most people exponentially regret as they age.

What Choice Will You Make?

I’m here to help you make the choice that results in meaning AND money. This is where my own career path has taken me. Through the 14 jobs I have worked and the 2 businesses I have owned, I have experienced my fair share of frustration and success. The path is wacky, but worth it.

Join me and the many others at Graduated and Clueless as we find the path of most resistance – the career you have dreamed about your entire life.

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