« Paying Fixed Bills With a See-Saw Salary | Main | Flexible Enough to Take a Bend in the Next Road? »

Dec 2
Narrow the Gap Between Call and Career

If you chose your career with links to purpose and passion, you are likely also choosing to draw from your unique mix of intelligences. The results? Expect innovation at work. The kind such as Xerox announced this week after they developed the first self-erasing paper.  

The current climate is an ideal time to make those changes while sluggish systems we work for groan under the weight of not following Thomas Jefferson’s warning…

Our laws and institutions must keep pace with the discoveries of the mind.

self-erasing%20paper.jpg
People ask me all the time why I do what I do, and every time of start to answer I am stopped by an inadequacy to explain why I direct the MITA International Brain Based Center, or why I love what I do. I do have two fast answers though, because my work reflects a lifetime interest in the human brain, and it mixes well with another interest – investigating new ideas.

I’m a problem solver and thanks to Howard Gardner’s discovery of multiple intelligences,  I find more solutions  these days  in hidden and unused parts of the brain. It allows me to help others to do the same – and that brings my interests full circle with my work that pays. So, for instance, if clients tell me they procrastinate and therefore  lose deals to their competition, I help them to use parts of their brain to map out winning plans, that seemed unavailable to them earlier.

Here’s a quick thumbnail test to check your correlations between what you do at work and what you feel called and gifted to do. It starts with identifying your unique intelligences or strengths.

1. What do you come back to repeatedly, even after others might have given up?

2. What do people tend to tell you that you do especially well?

3. What do you stick with and persist in, regardless of barriers that get in your way?

When you answer those three questions you will likely be looking at your highest intelligence. Then the challenge with be to use more of that at work, or change careers as I did for the opportunity to follow a deeply felt call – one that more than pays the bills. What do you think?


0 Comments/Trackbacks




submit a trackback

TrackBack URL for this entry:

post a comment

Name, Email Address, and URL are not required fields.





Comment Preview

« Paying Fixed Bills With a See-Saw Salary | Main | Flexible Enough to Take a Bend in the Next Road? »

Advertise

sponsored ads



subscribe


Prefer Email?
Subscribe below-

Enter your Email:


Powered by FeedBlitz What's this?

Current News

Support This Blog

Successful and Outstanding Blogger
BlogBurst.com
QAQnA Mug Club
10 Tips for 10 Million Women
My site was nominated for Best Business Blog!

Business and Management Articles
Dig Your Job Badge

business social media

Use these fast growing business social media sites to promote your business, feature your products, spotlight your business leaders, create links, and drive traffic back to your company site, all for free!

BIZZlogos - Add your logo - free link to your site
BIZZphotos - Add photos of your products and people
BIZZprofiles - Submit your profile and build your online visibility
BIZZspotlight - Spotlight your business with free links
BIZZvideos - Videos about businesses, products and business people.
BIZZbites - "Digg" for Business - Submit your articles and posts

know more media network

View Network Map

Network Feed List (OPML)

Know More Media Network
Feed


we support unitus

PRWeb

Influencer



BrainBasedBusiness is a member of the Know More Media network of business related blogs.

Here are some current headlines from some of our business publications:

ProductivityGoal

CallCenterScript

AdHurl

TheBizofKnowledge

LandingTheDeal

CustomersAreAlways

HealthCareVox

BrainBasedBusiness

TheInsurancePolicy

MarketingBlurb