Seriously Souled 10-day journey - Job by Jackie Glaser

[Music] hi seriously sold my name is jackie glazer and we are talking today about jobs and about how do i know how do i get clarity on which direction to put my time my energy my focus my talents my skills into like how do i do that in a fulfilling way so that i can live life on purpose and one of the best maps that i've seen is written in the hoverslavis which is the duties of the heart it's a book written for how our inner orientation should be essentially spiritually and one of the things it talks about there is about how to get clarity on your purpose it sort of draws three circles so if you draw three circles on a page and then i'm going to leave you this with homework it talks about really having a deeper sense of self-reflection that it's really about knowing yourself right go to yourself is really the answer for how to get clarity on your life purpose rather than just like i'm going to just travel around the world and hope that it drops into my head some clarity from somewhere which is what a lot of people do after college in australia i'm not sure what it's like here in america but a lot of people do the ba the bachelor of anything because they just hope that some point they're going to get clarity about what they should do so they're going to do the bachelor of anything which is what you do when you have no clue what you should be doing but in order to avoid that and i did that too by the way but in order to avoid that um it's better to have clarity now around um who you are who you are and what you're good at and and what direction maybe you should be going in so the first circle if you think of three circles like this like this and like this concentric circles and where they overlap is a hint to where your life purpose is the first circle is what are you good at what are you naturally good at ever since you were little you were so good at xyz right if you ask your aunt betty she'll tell you if you ask other cousins and relatives and family they'll tell you you're always so good at this since you're a little girl right there's something you're naturally effortlessly good at it doesn't mean you can't improve but it just means that you've had this ability and one of the ways you know about it is because other people come to you for advice in these areas right not just professionally personally also so let's say you're a good listener so you get people coming to you for just wanting to to talk to you and you and you just listen to them and you give them good advice right let's say um you're a detailed person so you're very good at details and and organizing things so people come to you for help with that right let's say you you could have all sorts of different skills events putting on events being creative artistic people ask you to do the design elements of different things just see what have you been naturally drawn to that you're really good at effortlessly there's every single person is giving skill sets that they're really good at effortlessly and that's the first circle so start to think about and write down what you're good at naturally and if you're not sure check it out with your family okay these are skill sets general skill sets people person you know detail person builder fixer troubleshooter problem solver these types of things right the other circle is next to it is what inspires you what do you actually enjoy so you can be good at something and not enjoy it and you can enjoy something and not be good at it it's something you actually enjoy something that gives you energy rather than you being drained of energy right so what types of things do you feel really like on a high about or inspired or it feels effortless to do it because you enjoy it so much those kinds of things right so start to make a list now of these kinds of things of like what am i naturally inspired by what gives me energy for example i might love art but i am not good at it at all so i could enjoy it but i'm not good at it or i could be good at let's say event planning but and i'll do it for a friend or so but personally it drains me whereas i have other event planners who get inspired by event planning they feel it's creative so they get energy from it so you have to know for yourself what gives you energy and what inspires you and what you're naturally good at so those two things are key right as far as like a pointer towards your life purpose and job and career aspirations the third one is what's up what opportunities come your way so the bottom circle what opportunities come your way which door is open for you in life and which doors close that's a divine providence a divine interaction of which direction you're meant to go in is which door is open once you've tried to to get in and which doors don't no matter what you do they just won't open right so that could be also a hint and a clue not only do you look at which doors open and close but that third circle contains what does the community need around you so looking around your particular world where you're living with your neighbors and your family and your community maybe your school maybe your employ place of employment what does the world around you need like what what is necessary and what is needed and when you look around and look at what's needed and then you see that you have the skill sets to be able to provide what's needed and you really really enjoy it there is no greater feeling in the world than that clarity of that fit of like what i'm good at what i enjoy and then what the world around me needs there's a deepest sense of fulfillment that comes from that place and that's usually a hint to something you're meant to be doing as an expression in a job or a career sometimes jobs are just a means to an end and you need to do it just to get the money so that you can then pursue what you love to do so that different times in life where with our job we actually do need to um do jobs we don't like so it's okay if you're in a job you don't like however in the bigger more macro picture when we're reflecting on who we are and what direction to go in this is the kind of direction so for homework i want you to draw these three circles and i want you to get really really clear in the more detailed the more specific the better for you because it's going to inform all your decisions and help you to live a life on purpose tag samaya and may this year bring only sweetness blessing and reveal goodness for everyone [Music] you