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FROM CHAPTER ONE: "LIVING YOUR LIFE ON PURPOSE":
"...Your Ideal Career
Your Life's Purpose is not necessarily your career, but rather your life's central work. It is something you find intrinsically rewarding. You may have the opportunity to professionalize and earn money from this activity, in which case your Life's Purpose and Ideal Career will be one and the same thing.
Alternatively, your Ideal Career may not directly involve pursuing the activities of your Life's Purpose, but rather support your Life's Purpose.
Either way, the first thing is to articulate your Life's Purpose and then find an Ideal Career that is consistent with it. Uncovering your Ideal Career is part of the process outlined in the final chapter and is the second aspect of your Authentic Direction Statement.
To help you on your way towards discovering your Ideal Career we introduce you to the 30 careers - drawn from the 1200 defined in the official US Department of Labor O*Net database - that best match your profile from the FPYC questionnaire. This is called your WorkMatch and is outlined for you in chapter four.
Your dominant abilities, identified in chapter two, are used to select your five most suitable "Fields of Work" from the 26 in the O*Net database. Then, based on your temperament which is the subject of chapter three, the top six occupations in each of your five Fields of Work are selected.
Will any of these 30 options be your Ideal Career? Maybe, maybe not. That's not the point. What is important is that it provides you with vital food for thought. Just like the discussion of your abilities in chapter two and temperament in chapter three, your 30 WorkMatches in chapter four provide the essential raw materials for the process that we guide you through in chapter five.
Your talents
A full discussion of your talents is the purpose of chapter two. Your eight intelligences and 20 abilities are discussed, and we help you explore your individual gifts and talents.
Richard Leider is a renowned career coach who has written extensively on how to discover your Life's Purpose. He has this to say about abilities:
"(Everyone) hungers to know and express their gifts and talents. The people I have met in my 30 years as a career counselor are always absolutely sure they have some unique talent. They may not know what it is yet. But they know that they have something within them that they need to contribute. And this feeling lasts throughout your lifetime."
From this you can see that a clear vision of your talents and abilities is a vital prerequisite for detecting your Authentic Direction. You will already be aware at some level of your talents, but by bringing these into conscious focus you will be able to send the right messages to your subconscious, allowing you to gain valuable insights into your Life's Purpose.
Your temperament
Your talents and abilities provide you with insights into the Fields of Work where you will excel, while your temperament suggests the types of roles you are best suited for within your particular field.
For example, will your work involve interacting with other people, or are you better suited to working independently? Do you function best in a structured workplace, or do you prefer a more flexible environment?
One of the keys to finding your Ideal Career is to find work that is more than just a job. You need to find work that you naturally enjoy and this invariably comes back to temperament type.
This is why the analysis of your temperament type in chapter three is another vital aspect in putting together the puzzle that is your Authentic Direction.
Your secret weapon
We have already introduced you to the idea that your Life's Purpose and Ideal Career exist within you, embedded within the murky depths of your subconscious mind.
The process outlined in the final - and longest - chapter utilizes a range of leading edge psychological techniques which allow your conscious mind to draw out from your subconscious what is hidden there. The raw materials are the self-data revealed in the previous three chapters, and the result is a series of statements which have the potential to re-energize your life! Perhaps even more importantly you will have begun to learn how to harness the power of your vast subconscious mind, providing you with a secret weapon that can help you achieve goals in the future which may now seem impossible!
Buckle yourself in and prepare yourself for a revealing and fascinating journey of introspection and soul searching!"
Reference: Career personality aptitude test
For more information on Authentic Direction: How to Find Your Life's Purpose and Ideal Career, complete the questionnaire beginning at the top of this page.
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