Archives for January 2018

According to a 2012 survey conducted by “Big 4” accounting firm Deloitte, 80% of those surveyed did not like their jobs. In another survey conducted by Gallup in 2013, 63% of the 230,000 employees in the survey said they were unhappy with their jobs.

Job dissatisfaction is driven by a number of factors:

1. No Direction – You have no idea where you are going in life. Your job has no purpose other than to provide a paycheck. It does not lead anywhere. It’s a dead-end job. When you can visualize where you want to be in say five or ten year’s, you will eventually find a job that helps you get there.
2. No Plan – Because you have no direction, you have no plan. Without any plan you are floating around like leaves on a fall day. You allow the wind to blow you from job to job. The solution is to define what you want to do in life and then develop a plan that will get you there.
3. No Passion – You’re not good at what you do and you’re not good at what you do because you lack passion. As a result, you put in the bare minimum at work – enough to keep you from getting fired. When you do not do your best, when you don’t give it 100%, you feel dissatisfied. The solution is to find your innate talents or something you are passionate about. This requires experimentation – experimenting with different income-produing activities. Through experimentation, you will eventually find something you enjoy doing and you will devote significant hours to it, until you become expert in it.
4. Wrong Wall – Your Ladder is on Someone Else’s Wall – You only excel when you pursue your own goals and your own dreams. When you pursue the dreams and goals of your parents or some influencer in your life, you are pursuing their dreams and goals. Your dissatisfaction is the result of not doing what you should be doing in life. You need to put your own ladder on your own wall.

When you find your passion and purpose in life, work ceases to be work. It changes from drudgery to pleasure. Your mindset shifts from negative to positive. Your work-life takes on new meaning. You feel you are doing something you were born to do. And this leads to happiness, mastery and, in time, more money and the accumulation of wealth.

Successful people do certain things every day that act like a magnet, attracting luck into their lives:

1. Experiment With New Things – When you experiment with new things you are able to find some innate talent or passion you did not know you possessed.
2. Expect Success – A positive outlook enables you to see opportunities and solutions to problems.
3. Seek Out Silver Linings – Even in failure and after mistakes, there is always some new knowledge to be gained; knowledge that can lead to success. Successful people are constantly on the lookout for the good even in the bad.
4. Listen to Your Subconscious – Intuition is the means by which the subconscious mind communicates knowledge to the conscious mind.
5. Interact With Successful People – Interacting with those who are successful or who are pursuing success can help you uncover new knowledge or solutions to problems/obstacles that plague you. Seek out seminars, conferences, or any group whose members are success-minded.
6. Pursue Some Dream or Big Goal – You gain knowledge from pursuing a dream or big goal; knowledge that will help you succeed later in life.