If you want to become happy, you must take it one step further and decide what makes you happy: more money, more free time, less stress, a bigger house, a pony, it doesn’t matter what it is... It seems simple, but it’s true: if you can’t specifically see what your goal is you will never reach it.
To be honest, most people don’t know what they want, but they do know what they don’t want. I see it over and over again. When I speak at college orientations or career weeks, a lot of students tell me they don’t want a job that sucks after graduation, but they have no idea what they want to do. Understanding that, I created a presentation called “Turning Your Passion into Your Profession.” Students who attend this event leave knowing exactly what they must do to love what they do as a profession and most importantly how to land that dream job!
During that presentation, we have everybody write down the things they don’t want in a job. Then we sort this list into two categories: “Never Acceptable” and “Could Live With It.” Then I ask them to state the positive version of each negative job attribute. It’s a great strategy for figuring out what you want.
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Arel Moodie is widely known as America's Top Young Speaker. He has spoken to over 65,000 students in 39 states and 2 countries on the topics of student success, student leadership and student entrepreneurship. He is a leading authority on helping students of this generation succeed in school and in life. He is also the best selling author of the book Your Starting Point For Student Success. To find out more about Arel's book, go to www.startingpointbook.com. To find out more about Arel's speaking please go to www.arelmoodie.com.
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