Steve Pavlina: how to stop rushing in search of a "dream job" and get serious about his career

Steve Pavlina - a guru in the field of personal development. Conducts personal blog, has written several books. A review of one of them, we published on Layfhakere.

Here'sa translation of an article in which Steve opens the question about when (and how) it is time to stop looking for the "deal of a lifetime" and start to really build a career.

If you decide to start a serious career, do not even think that you will make the first success in the first year. Any tangible results at the initial stage, you will not wait. Many business projects in the first two years is not something that does not bring profits, but not even pay back investments, it takes some time before even a small company will acquire a certain stability.

How many potentially quite good bloggers lose interest in your project in the first few months! They do not see a sufficient return and start to get bored, or they have a "more cool" idea. They change their page addresses and start all over again for 2-3 times a year. After several years of such ravings they still do not achieve visible results. Surveying the work done and achieved meager success, they concluded that in this field there is no chance to do something big and worthwhile.

When it comes to building any business (whether online or offline), vanity looks funny, because the real value of the business can only be obtained after several years of work in one direction. It will take time to develop a product or service to attract customers, to gain experience in the development of selected business and learn how to receive income from it.

It took 25 months to make my blog has started to bring me $ 10,000 a month, it happened in 2006. And in the first 6 months my income was $ 167 in total, and it was only thanks to Amazon.com affiliate program. If I gave up at that point, it would never have seen what advantages can bring this way. And many bloggers do not reach this stage. He did not see little or no financial gain in the first year and decide that there was nothing left, and it is not necessary to spend time and energy on it, to continue on this path.

Besides the fact that I am now getting a large enough income from your blog, I got still many interesting and profitable opportunities: make presentations, publication of books, coaching (starts at $ 997 for a consultation, and now the price reached $ 4997), free travel, and useful links.

If you want to create a serious source of stable income and live in abundance, it is important to pass the phase of rushing from one thing to the different because it dramatically increases the chances to break in the first step and surrender to the moment that will be standing result.

The truth is that you can create a very good source of income from any business that you enjoy: writing articles (Books), audio, video, art, music, programming, design, etc. Others have already made millions in work in these areas. But most went out of business after the first 6-12 months. Income received by those who have more than 5 years of hard work in one area. They are builders, not amateurs.

Successful business people united by one thing - at some point they decided a responsible approach to what they do. They stopped throwing in different directions, no longer go with the flow. They mapped out the path and moved on it with renewed vigor and zeal, intending to stick to it for many, many years perfecting their skills. Meanwhile, amateurs looking for ways to fast income, minimum effort - and a great result for a few months.

Talk to friends, asking them how they feel, what you will be doing in 5 years? If their answers you do not like them or they will be different, it probably means that you yourself are in doubt, rushing from one thing to another. You can, of course, to think that you are somehow defined, simply you will not understand, but you know, to determine the person is clearly visible.

And if you're already standing in its path and resolutely move forward, people who you know for certain with high degree of confidence can be assumed that it is this and you'll be doing in the next five years old.

Want a good and steady income - to select the business organization is the work to which you do not lose interest after 5 years. I chose personal development, because even before I started blogging, was passionate about this subject for 10 years and believe that in the next 5 years is not lost interest in it. For over 8 years, I'm blogging, and still I'm incredibly passionate about what I do. I love my job and I have no desire to switch to another activity. Of course, the specifics varied from year of work in a year, but the total remained the same path. If 8 years ago, my choice was less conscious and more impulsive, it is possible that I would have thrown all through the year.

How can define their passion? How do you know what attracts you? It is not necessary to revise the current class, better take a look at five years ago, because of the fact that if it was your passion is still alive fascinates you? Is a good chance that this is what you will be interested in the next 5 years. And if you will still do it, then why do not fully devote themselves to this task and to achieve excellence in craftsmanship?

Please note that for a long time to get involved in something and to achieve excellence - this is not the same thing. I, for example, as long fond of the game of disc golf, as well as personal development, but I never wanted to reach perfection in this game. I do not think about it seriously. Even despite the fact that I play disc golf with friends almost every weekend and probably will do so in the next 5 years. But my skills are not improving. I have achieved some success and remain at this level for many years. This is my hobby, my game, and I'm not going to achieve excellence in the game of disc golf.

Take into account the fact that not everyone wants to do some astounding career. If you do not have 5 years to achieve some incredible results, you can continue the search time earnings or quietly doing what you doing now, without pretensions to becoming a real guru in this area.

But if you can not stay in place if you want 5 years to see some really serious results, you need to think about the decisive movement in one direction.

If you want to look for more and explore different ways of generating income - that's fine, but just do not say every time that you have chosen "the same thing". At a minimum, it would be foolish if every six months you will declare a friend about a career change. But when you really choose your way to tune seriously and do not drop the case in a year or two. But if you will be too hard to be committed to the same case for 5 years, then it is not your way.

As an example of the true fans of the business can lead master Jiro Ono, which we already written on Layfhakere. He has reached perfection in the preparation of sushi and become the best chef in Japan and the world. But he still has a passion for his job and gave her completely.