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    Creating the Work You Love: A Guide to Finding Your Right Livelihood
    Creating the Work You Love: A Guide to Finding Your Right Livelihood
    Creating the Work You Love: A Guide to Finding Your Right Livelihood
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    Creating the Work You Love: A Guide to Finding Your Right Livelihood

    By Elaine Voci

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    Unhappy in your current career? Do you lack clarity, vision, or courage when you try to imagine yourself doing work that's soul satisfying? Are you reluctant to learn new things in order to reinvent yourself? This book is designed to help you find your right livelihood.

    In today's marketplace, we all need to adopt a mindset of the self-employed individual and accept responsibility for being our own boss, even when we work for someone else. The old "social contract" has been broken and replaced with one that holds independence (making individual contributions) and interdependence (collaboration with others) as its core elements.

    This book provides answers, facts, inspirational essays, and -- most importantly -- an opportunity for you to explore your heart's true desires. Elaine Voci, Ph.D. brings superb writing skills, and a fascinating work history of 30 years in which she changed careers -- not just jobs- more than six times, including one that meant moving to Japan. Elaine has successfully practiced in her own career what she is going to teach you about reinventing yourself.

    In this book you will be helped to explore:
    * How to use your talents, interests and values to mobilize your career
    * The decision to go back to school, or not -- and the value and the absolute need for continual skill building through learning
    * The power of networking and the hidden job market
    * How to express your authentic self on your resume
    * Preparing for successful interviews - actions you need to know and master
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456612658
    Creating the Work You Love: A Guide to Finding Your Right Livelihood
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    Elaine Voci

    ELAINE VOCI is a life coach, grief group facilitator, and the author of Bridge Builders: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things and Creating the Work You Love: A Guide to Finding Your Right Livelihood. She lives in the Midwest with her spouse.

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      Creating the Work You Love - Elaine Voci

      destiny.

      Read This First

      To live your life to the fullest you must find a way to put your heart and soul into your work.   If your present work does not allow you to do this, find one that will.

      Albert Camus

      There will never be another you.   The world has never seen anyone quite like you before, nor will it ever find another just like you again.   You are one of a kind and you have something to contribute to this life that the world needs from you.   In fact, my definition of a calling is the intersection where your unique passion meets a deep hunger in the world.

      Each of us is born with a unique set of skills and a unique human potential.   The mission of life is to live out that full potential.   How do you do that?   The great writer and philosopher Joseph Campbell famously advised that you must follow your bliss.   Writer and physician Bernie Siegel, M.D. encouraged readers to "Allow that wonderful inner intelligence to speak through you…be what you want to be. Don’t climb the ladder of success only to find it’s leaning against the wrong wall."

      Finding your purpose in life, and doing the work you are meant to do, is a journey not for the impatient, nor for the faint of heart.   It takes time to learn about yourself, your skills, and your special gifts, and it takes courage to believe that you deserve to find the work you love.   The temptation is always there to just get a job, rather than find your vocation, your right livelihood.   Settling for less is a choice that inevitably brings with it a dissatisfaction that won’t go away and a yearning for work that makes you feel alive and fulfilled.

      Creating work you love does not begin where you think it might – in a job search.   It begins, instead, with discovering who you are.   Answering questions that include:

      • What kind of people do you enjoy being around?

      • What are the values, goals and purposes that are important to you?

      • In what kind of working conditions do you do your best work?

      • What cause or issue do you want your life to serve while you are here on earth?

      All of these questions are important but that last one – answering how you want your life to serve the world - is the most important.   After all, your life is your creation, a work of art that you will leave behind as your legacy when your journey here is done.   There are many worthwhile causes in the world, many problems that need solutions; it’s a matter of finding the one you care most passionately about that will bring with it a life that has purpose and meaning to you.

      Be assured that you will gain lasting security only as you become self-reliant, creatively resourceful and fully engaged with your career: these all come from within you.   For no matter how much money you make, subjectively you’ll be rich when you are true to your vocation and poor when you betray it, or ignore it.   When you think about it, is there any other alternative that promises you as much lasting happiness?

      Introduction

      I wrote this book to give you a road map to follow so you can spend your time wisely in pursuit of the work you were meant to do.   It contains advice, tips, snapshots of the current and future marketplace, and many resources you can use to craft a career worthy of your interests, talents and passion.   This book includes part of my own story of how I learned to create the work I love in a wide variety of settings in a career spanning 30+ years.   I draw content from a career workshop that I designed and facilitate in my private coaching practice entitled, Creating the Work You Love.   I have expanded that content into this e-book format so that you now can have a seat in the workshop without leaving home.

      Changing careers was not something I knew a lot about in 1982 when I registered for a life-changing job search program offered by career coach Mike Kenney, a former Catholic priest. I defined the work that made me feel alive and engaged; I learned how to network and I revised my resume.   I understood for the first time in my life that it was possible for my avocation to be my vocation – an exciting awareness that filled me with energy and optimism.   When I entered Mike’s program I did not even know the job title for the training work I wanted to do, but I knew I was getting burned out as an alcohol and drug abuse counselor. I wanted to work at three things I enjoyed: teaching, writing and helping adults reach their highest potential.

      I absorbed the lessons of that career program with enthusiasm; I had a lot of fun during the nine months of network interviews that it took for me to land not one, but two, job offers in my new field of corporate training. I accepted a training position at one of the largest health care organizations in the state, then known as Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Indiana, having launched my first successful career change, thanks to Mike.

      Since then, I have made several career changes, and each time, I’ve acquired a deeper understanding of myself and of the power of setting our intention to create the work we love.   My goal in writing this e-book is to encourage you to believe that you are the master of your career path – indeed, I believe you have an obligation to use the talents you have been given in this life to do the work you were born to do in your own unique way.

      A purpose deep within you is already steadily taking shape.   You may have begun to notice an increasing number of synchronicities that seem to indicate that you are supposed to be doing something different, something more meaningful, than you have been doing.   You may have begun thinking of leaving your present occupation and moving into something new.   What might that be?   What is the purpose of the life you have been given?   How can you make the most of your time?   Many thousands of people are asking the same questions of themselves and are now awakening to their true path, intuitively knowing that something more is being required of them.   They often wish that someone would tell them what to do. Used to taking their cues from external sources, some may seek advice from others, they may study the latest list of hot jobs in the new economy, or try to second guess what the next Big Thing might be so that they can align with it.   It’s easy to get lost in that process.

      But eventually life demands that you take action and turn inward to begin the journey of soul searching on the road less traveled.   You realize that not only can you make a difference in this world, but that is the real reason you were born.   You begin to grow into your individuality and power, to see that your role is to engage fully with life, to participate, to have fun, to develop in the artistic and spiritual medium of this world that is intended for your use and for your purpose.   Thus, it is no accident that you are reading this book.   You have taken a helpful step toward embracing your future destiny – congratulations!   Now, let’s go forward together.

      Chapter One:   The New Global World of Work

      Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

      President Teddy Roosevelt

      on Labor Day, September 7, 1903

      It is a basic human need to want to have a job.   And it’s always been the case that there are many new jobs coming into the marketplace with opportunities to compete for them.   President Teddy Roosevelt’s philosophy is still true today but what’s different is the competition for jobs is now on a global scale.   The old foundation is gone and we are in an era of redefined loyalties, expanded options,

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