20 steps to the perfect job and life
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20 Steps to the Perfect Job and Life
Present by
Akilan Sridharan
Original article by Craig Nathanson, "The Vocational Coach"
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1. Find a purpose for your life
• Otherwise you will end up with someone else's dream life
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2. Figure out what bothers you most about the world and do something
about it
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3. Determine what is most important to you
• Most of us live our lives around what others tell us is most important
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4. Align your new goals around what is most important
• These will become the roadmap for your life's direction
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5. Have a healthy perspective of yourself
• When you feel good about yourself, everything else just seems to fall into place
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6. Replace old beliefs that are no longer useful to you
• start believing you are just as smart as anybody else
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7. Create new possibilities for your life
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8. Figure out who you want to be when you grow up
• It's never too late to start redefining your life and your sense of self
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9. Practice living the life you want now
• You won't believe it's possible until you actually do something
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10. Figure out what you are passionate about
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11. Align your abilities and your interests
• This is the quickest path to vocational passion
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12. What would a perfect vocational day be for you?
• (For example, my perfect vocational day includes writing this article for you!)
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13. Write your autobiography five years from today
• When you write down the life you want to live and read it, magical things happen to close the gap
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14. Downscale your lifestyle now to create the opportunities that you seek
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15. Strengthen your relationships and support systems
• you must shed the people in your life who do not share your dreams and nurture relationships with new people who are excited about your journey
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16. Grow strong emotionally
• You must learn to ignore the opinions of others-even those who love you-if they don't mesh with your dream
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16. Give yourself permission to follow your heart
• Tell yourself it's OK to be selfish. It's your life!
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18. Laugh a lot and enjoy the ride
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19. Live with integrity as a path towards an authentic life
• Define what integrity means to you and then follow your own rules
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20. Eat well, exercise and get plenty of sleep
• This will give you that extra bounce in your step
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