Four out of five employees never find career purpose and passion. Many people report job “satisfaction” but never reach their full career potential because they’re not intrinsically motivated. When you only work for a paycheck, you’ll never be inspired to be your best.
What is the right mindset to find purpose and passion? Only two accurate perceptions are required. Surprisingly both are already within you. The challenge is getting to the right mental framework to allow these two perceptions to come into clear conscious awareness.
The two perceptions are faith and vision. Faith is eliminating self-doubt by placing trust and confidence in yourself. You intuitively know what you can attain if you focus and apply the necessary energy. Vision means imagining the future – what success looks like and how it feels.
What causes people to struggle so mightily with these two perceptions?
People often lack faith in themselves because their perceptions are rooted in the past. You build up memories of events – of your behavior or the behavior of others – and allow these memories to control and define you. When you really think about it, the past only exists in your mind. If I asked you to show me your past all you could do is provide visual images and then attempt to recount thoughts, feelings, and actions. When you allow your past memories to affect your mindset you give them validity. They don’t exist out of your own reality.
Developing faith takes forgiving yourself and others for any supposed transgressions or failures. Refuse to allow your memories to define you and your future potential. Be 100% committed to your present and future. Your past is an illusion.
The second perception vision, occurs when you overcome your powerful nemesis the ego. The ego whispers in your ear that you’re not talented, smart or good enough; that you don’t deserve or are unworthy of success. Your ego always seeks to undermine who you are when you’re at your best which is who you are without fear. It shackles and dampens your imagination of who you can be. And, like your memories, you listen to your ego because you think it’s real. But it’s not – it’s only an illusion too. The ego is like memory; it only directs you if you allow it.
The synthesis of faith and vision is attainable. Demand from yourself a change in mind-set with a clear picture of success free from self-doubt and fear. Don’t settle for a career without purpose and passion when the answers are already within you.