Ask Yourself This: Are You Filling A Need?
Monday, February 4, 2008
Many great opportunities arise at every turn, which can be very frustrating when you're developing your career building goals, simply because you have to find an opportunity of which you're going to take advantage. What do you do when there are simply too many?
When it comes to building your career, most people tend to focus on careers that allow them to pursue what they enjoy doing. Instead of taking advantage of opportunities, their career = building efforts lean towards self-fulfillment and self-enjoyment rather than a greater calling that allows them to contribute to the improvement of the lives of others. While there's nothing innately wrong with building your career around yourself, it can be worth the effort to take a look outside of yourself and considering a wider, greater vision in life.
This world is in an ongoing state of deterioration, and it is the rare great man who focuses his vision of life and career objectives on addressing the decline and working to reverse it. Your society needs an agent of positive change, someone with a Christian personal vision plan, a person whose vision in life is to improve not only his lot but those of others.
Could that person be you?
Whether you are in the process of building your career or merely mapping out your career building goals, you have the unique opportunity to become more than just another nine-to-fiver, just another pencil pusher, just another potential multimillionaire with little idea of just how spectacularly s/he can change the world.
Ask yourself the following yes-or-no questions, thinking hard about the implications of your answers:
1. Have you ever considered building your career around a venture that explicitly aims to effect positive change in your society?
2. Do you think others will be willing to help you bring your vision to life?
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