In a survey I conducted, a reader wrote:
"Hi Tony,
Here is a complicated situation that I have been trying to deal with for the last 20+ years. I want clarity in what I would love to do as a career. My kids are old enough now to allow me to train for something. I'm stuck as I have no true passion. I just don't want to waste myself on another course, then realize that I'm totally not enjoying it or I just am totally crap at it. How can you visualize yourself doing something which you can't even begin to imagine what something may be? I wish I could find it, I'm so great at helping others deal with their stuff, but then when I look inward I see nothing for me. I know I would love to be financially independent and wealthy. I know I love lots of freedom. How do I begin to find what will get me there?"
You know, that's a great question!
And, you're far from being the only person who has it. Lots of people do.
Unfortunately, at least for some of us, there's no easy answer to it.
Some folks know from a very early age what they want to do with their lives. For example, two kids I went to elementary school with knew exactly what they wanted to do, even back then, and they each went on to do what that was, happily and successfully.
Others, spend the better part of their lives trying to figure it out, if they ever do. That's the camp I was in and the one it sounds like you're in right now.
In Lesson 4 of his book The Personal Power Course ("The Physical Side of Wealth-Culture"), Wallace D. Wattles wrote:
"In this lesson we will deal with the physical part of wealth-culture; and in the next with the mental part. The physical part must consist in the use of things. If you are to acquire wealth, it must be by making constructive use of the THINGS with which you deal in your profession or business. Since you often come into association with things through people, we may extend this statement, and make it in this wise: Wealth-culture consists in making constructive use of all the people and things with which you are brought into association in your business or profession. Most people use some things constructively, and others destructively; they gain a little here and lose a little there; and so they get ahead very slowly, if at all. It will be self evident to you that a person who makes constructive use of EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY must certainly move ahead rapidly. Every step will be a forward step with him; all things will work together for his good.
In the first lesson, you learned that in order to make constructive use of things, you must know what you want to do. First, choose your business. Choose the one that seems most in line with your tastes, and which will require the use of your strongest faculties. Select for your life work the thing you most WANT to do."
Now, contrary to what some advise, it doesn't necessarily need to be something you're "passionate" about, nor something you "love" to do, just something you like or enjoy doing and makes use of your strongest talents, though there's an exception to that (see below).
Mr. Wattles continued:
"Do not become possessed by the idea that you must be fixed by circumstances in some business or profession which you do not like, and barred out from the one which you WOULD like. Even though you are making money, you are not successful so long as you are doing something you do not like to do, and not doing the thing you want to do. The man who feels that he is misplaced is neither wealthy nor successful. Perhaps the most essential part of wealth-culture consists in finding the place where you will be happy in your work. If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.
Perhaps there is something which you would LIKE to do, but you feel that you have not the talent for that particular business or profession; and so you do not dare try it. But remember that if you have not the fully developed talent, you have it in an undeveloped state, and can develop it; a future lesson of this course will tell you how. Nothing is more certain than that you CAN BE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE, in the matter of talent and ability; and if that is true, it is also certain that you CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. If you are not big enough to do it, you can MAKE yourself big enough to do it. So, make up your mind as to what you want to do; then make up your mind that you WILL do what you want to do, and then begin to move toward the thing you want to do."
One sentence above in particular, at least for the purpose of this discussion, bears repeating:
"Perhaps the most essential part of wealth-culture consists in finding the place where you will be happy in your work."
It's to that end I created a course, my Wallace D. Wattles Purpose Discovery Course, which, among other things, takes you by the hand and walks you through a series of exercises designed to help you identify the things you enjoy and the things you do well and put them together to find the business or profession that's right for you. If you need some help in that regard, I highly recommend it. Click or tap the link below to get started today.
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To answer your first question:
"How can you visualize yourself doing something which you can't even begin to imagine what something may be?"
Though it's certainly the ideal, you don't absolutely, positively need to have a clear image in your mind of all the details, all you need is the concept of the end result you're after and as you continue to experience (I prefer the word experience to the word visualize) it in your imagination, as "vague and misty" as it may be, day after day, the details will fill themselves in.
If you need help with that, I highly recommend you read my Wallace D. Wattles Quick Start Guide and my Wallace D. Wattles Advanced Vision Guide, in that order, as well. Between the two of them, you'll learn just about everything you'll ever need to know about creating and utilizing visions and, most importantly, realizing them. Click or tap the links below to get your copies today.
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If you'd like to read Mr. Wattles' lessons "The Physical Side of Wealth-Culture", "The Physical Side of Wealth-Culture", and the "first lesson" he referred to above, you can read them, along with seven other valuable lessons in constructive science, in his book The Personal Power Course. Click or tap the links below to get your copy today.
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Since Mr. Wattles made it clear in his writings that you can get rich in any business or profession, why not pick something you enjoy? Think about it.
Posted by: Tony Mase | 11/08/2015 at 04:12 AM
By the way, the more complicated you think something is, the more complicated it will be. Just thought I'd throw that in here. :-)
Posted by: Tony Mase | 11/08/2015 at 04:13 AM