Is 2007 the Year You Focus on ONE BIG THING?
Written by Michael on January 18, 2007 – 3:53 am -One of my favorite sites is Steve Pavlina’s personal development blog. Click here for other things I’ve written about Steve.
Although I find Steve sometimes goes over the top, he’ll provoke you into thinking long and hard about yourself, your life, and the choices you make.
Strongly recommend his blog.
One of his recent posts had to do with Setting Your Primary Focus as it relates to New Year’s Resolutions.
If you’re like I am, you make lists (either written or mental) about areas of your life that you’d like to improve, and maybe you even go so far as to spell out specific resolutions for a new year or new time in your life. Perhaps you want to lose 15 pounds this year, learn to play the piano, be a better partner in ways that only you could describe, or get a certificate in something from your local community college.
Pavlina suggests that we’d all be better off in focusing on one goal for the coming year instead of making a list of a few things that we’ll probably not accomplish.
This got me to thinking about you and your career or your dream job.
What if you make 2007 the year that you get settled into and really doing the job you’ve been craving?
Forget everything else and focus on the dream job.
Keep a diary of everything you’re doing to pursue that job.
Then, do something every day that takes you closer to that job. Create a better resume, take a course related to your passion, read the best book in the field you can find, or talk to a pro or two already doing what you want to do.
Each week review what you’ve done that week to get you closer; then, plan what you’ll do in the following week.
I’ll bet you that, if you focus on getting your dream job in 2007, you can do it.
I like that idea, Mr. Pavlina.
What job do you want, Dream Jobber, and can you commit to doing something every day to get you one step closer to it?
Write and let me know what your dream job is, and let’s see if we can work together to take some steps to get you one wee bit closer.
Over to you!
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January 19th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
I really like this idea. Although Steve would say ‘focus on the physical’, I think focusing on finding your dream job is great - it will let you take one giant leap to happiness.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:50 am
Like you, I highly value Steve Pavlina’s site. His own blog is thought-provoking and his forums invite many participants to contribute. I like to encourage and assist people and I also feel stranger help me.
Yet, I think the idea of focusing on one main goal for 2007 is possible, but unrealistic for many people. They often have goals for their personal life, professional life, perhaps spiritual life and then, things on top of that. Where people draw incomes from different sources, it may also be useful and even necessary to have multiple goals.
As for a “dream job”, the idea of narrowing a focus always strikes me as useful. However, some people find their ideal circumstances do not include a dream job so much as a kind of financial freedom which would permit them to devote time to causes and projects and people of primary importance. Discovering what motivates you can certainly enrich you life, lower stress and influence your longevity.