Do You Love Your Job?

I am a fan of learning from the best experts I can find. And they are not always in the Christian community. When I decided to reflect on the path of my life, I scoured the shelves of the local bookstores. And, lo and behold, I found this gem.

Nancy Anderson has been a career counselor since 1976. She wrote Work with Passion: How to Do What You Love for a Living to help people discover a more fulfilling life.

I selected this book because it had a number of exercises I believed would be helpful for me as I analyzed what God might have in store for me next.

Anderson offers 10 Passion Secrets. Passion is intense emotional excitement. Passion is necessary to find the work you love.

But to discover your passions you have to examine yourself. And that can be scary. Self-examination requires courage. You might not like everything you find.

The exercises in this book are not for the timid. But they are worth the time, effort and courage. You have to examine yourself if you want to purposely live the life God has ordained for you since the beginning of the time.

This book is full of helpful stories illustrating points and progression through the process.

In Work with Passion: How to Do What You Love for a Living you will learn:

(p. 16) How to write an autobiography.

(p. 25) How to remember and capture the earliest memories of your life.

(p. 36) How to identify things you have intense feelings about and use those things to construct the job you can love

(p. 40) How to identify the traits that best describe you.

(p. 53) How to be yourself, like nobody else.

(p. 56) How to identify the activities that bring you joy and pleasure.

(p. 60) How your educational background can reveal your meta-skill strengths.

(p. 66) What values motivate you to do your best work.

(p. 73) How to set goals that match your passions.

(p. 82) How writing your epitath can guide you now.

(p. 89) How to create a list of things you “want” in life as a motivational tool.

(p. 92) How a life vision collage reveals the mental picture of what you want.

(p. 97) How to locate people with passions that match your own.

(p. 115) How to create an ideal day for yourself.

(p. 124) How you work best – by yourself – with a partner – or on a team.

(p. 148) How to find potential ideal jobs to explore.

(p. 165) How to approach someone for information about the job you want.

(p. 208) How to call a complete stranger for advice about a career.

(p. 254) The importance of self-discipline in gaining the freedom you want.

(p. 297) How to write the story of your future.

(p. 298) Why celebration is important.

This book is not written from a Biblical perspective. I can not wholeheartedly endorse everything in it.

But the exercises can be applied in any setting.

I found it extremely helpful in launching into the second half of my life!

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