Discovering Passion and Purpose in Every Professional Journey
Loving what you do and doing what you love are NOT dependent on your employment status or choice of employment. It is all about a mindset that transcends your chosen calling and is based in your unique experience.
Each type of employment / business ownership has the potential to unlock your talent and ambition, AND this is far more likely when you have a deep awareness of your core purpose in life and your natural strengths.
Here are some examples of point of difference and ambition for each of the following roles:
Individual Contributor
- Unique skill/talent oriented to the objectives of the organisation and/or the role
- Ambition: Achieve a world-class standard at some aspect of the role
People Leader
- Team builder & ability to transform strategy into action
- Ambition: Build an industry-leading high performing team
Leader of Leaders
- Culture builder and steward of strategy & vision
- Ambition: Build a resilient organisation that can achieve or exceed its medium to long-term ambitions
Sole Proprietor
- Passion project & create a legacy
- Ambition: Build a business to be proud of and expand personal wealth
Partnership
- Shared legacy (often a family enterprise)
- Ambition: Build a legacy to pass on to the next generation / create a profitable succession plan
Board / CEO
- Create a dent in the Universe (inspired by Steve Jobs)
- Ambition: Grow, scale & make a difference to the world and shareholders, employees, customers
Practice Owner
- Inspiring influencer / thought leader
- Ambition: Be known for knowing something; Influence others to succeed (credit Thought Leaders community)
Whatever your role in life, you have the potential to love what you do and do what you love every day. Your sense of purpose and your natural talent / developed strengths will determine how easy you find it to love what you do. It might take courage during a lifetime to jump from one category to another, and leverage new strengths that develop over time.
What has resonated with you about all of the above? Are there any categories of livelihood that I may have missed?
With love,
Christopher
