Manifesting a Job You Actually Want (Step Three)

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The third step in manifesting a job you actually want is to measure each new opportunity against what you actually want, and follow the path that’s most aligned with your vision.

One of the difficulties people have with successfully completing this step has to do with not being aware of, or conscious of all the opportunities at hand. It’s easy to recognize an opportunity when it’s perfectly consistent with your vision, but how often is that actually the case?

While it’s critically important to have a clear vision of what you want, it’s equally important to be able to recognize the opportunities that aren’t perfectly consistent with your ultimate vision, but that may provide some strategic advantage or foothold that could help achieve your ultimate goals.

In other words, successfully completing this step requires an open mind, and the willingness to embrace and consider opportunities that may not be obviously consistent with your ultimate goals.

For example, when I first started Verve Coaching, I needed to find a way to supplement my coaching income in order to meet my financial goals. I did this by taking temporary, part-time bookkeeping and finance jobs with a variety of different companies.

At the time, the thought of working as a temp bookkeeper seemed about as inconsistent with my vision as anything I could imagine! It was very difficult for me to see any long-term opportunity coming from these jobs.

However, many of the companies that hired me as a bookkeeper ended up becoming regular, long-term coaching clients for Verve Coaching. The time I spent with these companies helped establish my competence and credibility, and gave me ample opportunities to sell my services as a coach and consultant.

When your conversation “for” what you want in a job starts to generate new professional opportunities, it pays to be both strategic and open-minded as you measure those opportunities against your vision.

Another place where people sometimes go off track in the middle of Step Three has to do with settling for opportunities that seem outwardly consistent with your vision, but simply don’t call to your soul, light you up, or feel right in your gut.

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