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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Is Cupid’s Arrow Pointing at a Career You Will Love? Are You Willing to Put in the Time to Find Out?

A study by Iowa State University reports that the average couple spends 3 ½ years dating before committing to marriage. Here, at oneTRUEzone, we wonder why we are so willing to spend time doing our homework prior to committing to marriage, yet so negligent in doing our homework prior to committing to a career? After all, we live with both our marriage and career choices for years to come.

According to a Gallup poll reported by Entrepreneur Magazine, only 6% of Americans say they love their jobs. Studies show that when you love your job, you are more productive and experience less stress than someone who does not love his or her job. Confucius said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Click on the link below to read about how one aspiring artist turned chemist, ended up living her dream in an artistic career as a graphic designer:

http://workawesome.com/career/the-importance-of-doing-what-you-love/

By sheer luck, Stephanie did ultimately find a career that she loves. But had she taken the time to research careers in chemistry, taken a moment to discover what truly makes her happy, or even spent a little time speaking with someone working in the chemical field, Stephanie could have made the same discoveries much earlier.

How can you avoid the pain of finding yourself working in a field that is clearly not the right fit? How can you identify the career you will love, before investing your time and money educating yourself for a career that may not bring you happiness or fulfillment? Lucky for you, this is exactly what oneTRUEzone is all about! Here are three steps you can start taking TODAY to get you on the right path:

1. Each evening, for the next week, write down the five things you enjoyed most that day. At the end of the week, review your findings and narrow your list down to the top three things you LOVE doing every day. Keep this short list as a reminder of what makes you happy on a regular basis. This will become invaluable on your quest to find a career you will LOVE.

2. Take a few minutes to read over the 100 careers listed on the whitepaper that lives at the bottom of our homepage. Write down the careers that interest you, and think about the keywords associated with them. Do any of these key words apply to you?

3. Set some time aside to speak with at least one person in your life that you admire. Ask that person about their career, their daily duties, what he or she feels are the best and worst parts of his or her job and the path he or she took to get there. Get in the habit of asking questions, so that you are constantly absorbing as much information as you can from the sources around you. The more that you know, the better off you will be.

Remember, oneTRUEzone has created an extensive program to help you find the career that will be the right for YOU and will help make you happy. We know how incredibly important it is to find a career that you will love! The best part is, we are here to coach you every single step of the way - but the program starts with YOU! So take some time to get pumping through the three steps above! This will give you a great start to begin thinking about where you fit in the great big puzzle of life!

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