Your Dream Job Is Where Your Passion And Skills Meet

Today I quit my job as a web developer. I was working for a great local web design company and I was generally happy at my job, but I realized that web development isn’t my passion, it’s my skill.

My passion is personal development.

The following is my story about how I came to quit my job, learn to follow my true calling and learn the difference between passion and skill. Hopefully you will be inspired to be as aggressive about creating your own dream job!

Working as a web developer, I always knew that I was much more than a web developer. I have always had a fascination and love for personal development. Call it what you want: personal growth, personal achievement, time management, spirituality, consciousness… Basically, I simply enjoy taking every aspect of my life to the next level. I love talking about personal development, I love doing personal development, and even quitting my job today is indicative of my passion of taking my life to the next level! I feel much more aligned with my passion now that I have left a job which relied solely on my technical skills as a web developer and not at all on my love of personal growth.

The opportunity I see for myself (and all of you) at this point is to literally create my dream job by combining my skills on the web with my personal passion for innovative thinking! I know that I can give so much more to the world through applying my skills directly to my passion. I know that I can really touch the world by sharing of myself and my experiences, specifically in the realm of personal development. I am a natural leader, and I am never satisfied unless I am leading and doing that which I know to be best for me. I know that going into a job everyday and doing something I am good at but not passionate about is not how I can truly help the most people. Take a look at your current job, and ask yourself if you are really bringing your whole self to what you do, or if you are simply being paid to repeatedly utilize certain skills you have.

If you see room for improvement in your own career, consider creating a new, dream job for yourself! My dream job is to be a leader in the field of personal development, and this blog is my first step. I am bound to succeed in what I am doing because I am passionate about it. I love talking, writing, reading and practicing theories, tips, and techniques on personal development. I truly want to live the best life ever, and am constantly striving for the best for me and for the people around me. As such, I have already achieved amazing results and literally can’t wait any longer to share them with the world.

The very best part about this is that by doing what I know is best for me (creating my own dream job), I am really doing what is best for the world. When I do what I am passionate about, the whole world benefits because what I am passionate about I do so well; real quality work comes from those that are passionate about what they are doing. The more you heart sings when you are doing something, the higher quality it becomes.

I love the idea that your job is where your passion and your skills meet.

It’s no question that my skills are in web development: I have been part of the development of hundreds of websites, I fluently speak the language of the web and will always be a tech geek at heart, but this is my skill not my passion, and therefor can only ever fulfill less than all of my potential. Being a developer isn’t entirely rewarding for me – no matter how good I got at web development, I just didn’t like it enough to really take it any further than fluency, I didn’t have the passion to take my development skills to the mastery level – which genuinely limits how helpful I could ever be to others.

My true passion is personal development. When I think about mastering personal development I get chills down my back! I can honestly think of nothing more that I like doing than taking my life to higher and higher levels of ease, freedom and joy – and teaching others how to achieve the same.

It is incredibly important to be able to recognize our abilities, and to correctly categorize them as either skills or passions. I recently became very clear on my deepest passion by reading Janet Attwood’s The Passion Test (through a recommendation by fellow LA personal development teacher Max Simon). Shortly thereafter, it all really clicked for me when I read Zen Habits’ short, simple post on finding your passion. A key element of that post that made a huge impact upon me was asking yourself, “What do you read?” as a guide for finding your passion. Take a look at how you spend your reading time – on your commute, before bed, between checking things off of your “To Do” list. When I took a look at my own time, I could clearly see that every chance I get, I am reading about personal development, spiritual growth, etc. This has been my habit ever since I was in high school, because it’s in my spirit, I love it – it’s my passion. What is yours?!

Once I really owned up to my passion, I finally realized that what I was doing in my job wasn’t at all what I was passionate about, it was what merely what I was skilled in.

I have decided to truly let my passion shine, to step up and lead a conscious revolution in personal development. With my skills as a web developer and my passion in personal development, there is every reason why this blog will be just as popular as Zen Habits or StevePavlina.com. I am destined to succeed, and if you can find the intersection of your skills and your passions, you are destined to succeed as well. Go for it!

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