Don’t Focus Too Much on Your Profession, Focus on Your Life Goals Instead!

Your profession may not let you live the life you want, but achieving your goals will.

In the quest to achieve the life you want to live; you are probably putting too much energy in your profession. While this may let you excel in your profession, it may not necessarily lead to the life you desire.

What we desire in life is more or less universal.

We all desire:

• Abundance;

• Happiness;

• Love; and

• Freedom.

While not a single profession can give you all of these, we can create goals around these attributes and get to work to achieve those goals.

Not all professions are created equal. In terms of rewarding, some professions pay much more than others. In terms of convenience, some professions are too demanding they leave you only a little room for anything else.

If you are unlucky to belong in those professions which the pay is not very good, then if you are not careful, you are in for a lifetime of misery. Likewise, if you belong to those professions which demand too much of your time, then you will only live the real life probably when you retire!

However, having a profession is a good thing. From the community point of view professions help society to function properly and act as foundations for development. From the individual point of view, a profession helps you to get a foothold in life. However, you need more than a foothold to get to where you want to be. This means you need to let your profession be just one of the tools that may help you in your journey, but not necessarily the best one.

If you don’t think outside the box your profession more or less becomes a prison. You wake early in the morning, prepare and rush to a job that may not pay you properly, or that may be killing you due to the pressure it places on you.

But how do you break out of this prison?

It is easy. It takes place in phases.

• Phase one: The important question.

Why do I have to focus too much on my job if at the end of the day everything nice I own were paid for with debt?

• Phase two: The Ahaa! Moment.

Phase one helps you to come to a realization. You realize that you have wasted so much time and energy working on something which just provided you with collateral for your debts! You thank God that you have finally woken up.

• Phase three: Vision of where you want to be.

Universally we all need to be where there is abundance, happiness, love and freedom.

You start to create goals around your vision. Once you have the goals then you create a strategy and an action plan to reach those goals.

You may not succeed immediately, but eventually you will.

Here is an important lesson from Robert Kiyosaki’s experience. If you don’t know Robert, he is the guy who wrote the book ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’.

I remember reading from the book ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ that at a certain stage he (Robert) lost his millions and became broke. He was so broke that he could no longer afford a house or even a room and ended up living in his car with his wife!

It was during that time that in a moment of weakness he allowed a friend to pursued him to go back to active employment. According to his friend, there was this big corporation that wanted to hire a Sales Vice President or something, and Robert’s friend thought this was right up Robert’s alley as Robert used to be the top salesman for Xerox Corporation back when he was actively employed.

There were hundreds of candidates for the position and the interview process had to be conducted in phases. In the last phase there was only one candidate left: Robert! If he passed the last interview the job was his. While waiting to be called to the interview room he asked himself, ‘Is this really what I want?’. His mind said ‘No!’ Robert listened to his mind, stood up and walked away!

During that same year Robert became a millionaire once again.