To ‘optimize’ your experience aka your ‘happiness’ in each of these categories you’ve got to be proactive.
- Want to find your lifelong partner you truly love and can raise a family with? You’ve got to get out there, make an effort to meet people and find them.
- Want to be healthy? You’ve got to be more conscious of the food you eat and get up off your backside and exercise regularly!
- What about Career? Well that too – you’ve got to put in the hard yards if you want to work in a company with the same values as you, and work in a job you find fulfilling and impactful.
It’s truly worrying that most people aren’t really happy in their career.
A recent HBR article reconfirmed what many recruiters already know – 70% of people on LinkedIn are ‘passive’ candidates – that is they are not actively looking but open to opportunities it presented.
If you’re ‘passive’, how are you living an optimal experience in the ‘Career’ category of your life if you’re willing to consider leaving your current job from a random call or message from a recruiter?
Ask yourself,
- What will life look like in 5 years time if you continue on your current trajectory?
- What are you looking for in a company or in a job that you don’t currently have?
- If you were guaranteed [insert desirable salary], would you continue to do what you’re currently doing?
- What would you do if time and money were no object?
It’s easy to stay in YOUR comfort zone but you will never truly live YOUR ‘optimal’ life
So by now you’ve probably realized you need to take some action and make a change.
How are you going to go about it?