I'm still making my way through Seth Godin's new book 'Linchpin'. I read something the other day that really jumped out at me and totally resonated. Here's what he said:
"Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion".
It resonated because I've felt the very same thing about strengths. It would be easy to look at what we think our strengths are and then decide that we need to find a different job that will match our strengths. There is a slim possibility that that may be the case. But it is definitely not where to start.
We start by discovering what our passion and strengths are and then we look for ways to bring that passion and those strengths to the job that we have. There is no perfect job. We won't find something that is a total match for our passion and strengths. We have to bring our passion and strengths to what we do.
So maybe, just maybe, instead of dreaming about the perfect job that doesn't exist, we could think about how to integrate our current job with the passion and strengths we do have.
