After yesterday's rather depressing post, I thought I would share something a bit more positive today :) A few weeks ago, I discovered that the City Business Library in London holds free seminars on everything from How to Treble your Reading Speed to How to be a Director (check it their website here: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/cbl). This was a great find for me as its FREE and all the topics are pretty relevant to where I am at the moment.
This morning I attended a seminar titled "How To Create Your Dream Career" presented by a career coach called Susan Andrewes. The seminar was targeted at anyone who is tired and just wants to find out how to get that dream career - that calling/passion that can also make them a living. The presenter told us how, 4 years ago, she decided to walk away from a job she hated. No plan. No dream. Just a feeling that there had to be something out there she could do and enjoy (sound familiar?). Today, she is doing what she absolutely loves, gets paid for it and is helping others to do the same.
She started off the seminar by asking us the following:
- What do you want to create in your life? We all have the capacity to create something and that is the key to living the dream. It doesn't have to be the next Eiffel Tower or the next best-selling novel. It just something we would be passionate about.
- What would you love to get paid to do? If you were to assume that all jobs were paid the same, what would you do? Interesting way to think of this, right? One of the participants said she loved playing with dogs and would love to get paid playing with dogs, someone else said they loved socialising and would love a job where they could socialise.
