Everyone faces decisions and in many cases we fall into a decision crisis: a place where we are unable to make an important decision. In some cases these crisis can last a lifetime. The effects are often detrimental.
A good example of an area where decisions can be life changing is your career path.
What about the decision crisis that faces every student? Your decision making process for identifying the right career path is more important than many decisions you will have to make. Unfortunately this process often begins in the middle rather than the beginning. Simply put, many students and parents look at job markets, financial compensation, and job availability as the deciding factors on a career (major) path.
The First Step in the Decision Making Process
Before you consult the traditional counselors, career and interest surveys, and company representatives recruiting on campus consider the following:
1. Awareness: You will graduate to the workforce via corporate America or as an entrepreneur with a work life history that will span on average 40+ years.
2. Interest: The career path you pursue should be one that holds your interest. It is imperative that you identify all your interests. Make a detailed list of the things, activities, and rituals you enjoy. This should help to heighten your awareness about what direction to take.
3. Passion: After identifying your interests, which ones are your passions? Which activity, subject, or ritual do you just love? Make a list of these “special” interests and consider them your detailed list moving forward.
Discovering the correct career path (major) should start with the awareness that you will be spending the majority of your waking hours working. With this awareness you can then understand how important it is to find a career that you have interest and passion for in abundance.
This example can be applied to most any important decision facing individuals today. Remember to recognize your interest and passion in the decision you are about to make.
“Instead of thinking that you need money, realize that money needs YOU. Money is just so much wasted energy without work to do. Your ideas provide the outlet for it, the means by which money can do things. Develop your ideas, secure in the knowledge that money is always looking for such an outlet. When the ideas are perfected, money will gravitate your way without conscious effort on your part, if only you don’t dam up the channels with doubts and fears. . . . Realize that it is not money you have to seek, but a way to use money for the world’s advantage. Find the need!”– Robert Collier
“Money doesn’t grow on trees” –A Well Meaning Mother
One of the most common misconceptions about money is that there is a limited supply of money available to each person during their lifetime.
This misconception often leads people to make decisions based in fear and not fact. The idea that there is a limit to the supply of money is completely false.
There is a limitless supply of money available to everyone–that is a fact. If people are aware of this fact, if they understand that they can change their own erroneous beliefs about money, and if each individual invests time to create a vision and intended plan of action then the misconception about money’s limited supply becomes obsolete.
The next time you believe you are “a day late and a dollar short” The next time you think “money doesn’t grow on trees” Or you think that “a fool and his money are soon parted” Take heart because with a limitless supply of money available we all“have a license to print money.”
Author Susan Hanshaw’s upcoming book “Inner Architect: How To Build The Life You Were Designed To Live” will include a story line from the winner of “The Apprentice Contest.” As part of the book launch, inner architect has been running “The Appretice Contest” where contestants were sent a free copy of Chapter 1 “Cultivating Your Mind To Consider Change.”
Contestants were asked to write their impressions, suggestions, or description of an event that helped change their lives for the better. The winner would then be awarded a copy of Susan’s book, $50 Gift card, and they would have an article published in our blogs supporting their business, website, and blog.
As a way to give back to our readers and to recognize a truly important event or story, inner architect has decided to reward the winner of “The Apprentice Contest” with publication. The winner’s story will be included, up to one page, in our book. In addition we will include the winners url for website, blog, and business.
What This Means For You
Our plans are to distribute the book worldwide both online as an ebook as well as via print publication. If you are looking for viral marketing opportunities, publication, and the chance to have your work noticed outside of your normal distribution channels then enter“The Apprentice Contest” and tell the world!
The fear of letting go of The Paycheck is the #1 reason why people stay stuck in jobs that no longer fit. Part of this fear has to do with 3 erroneous views surrounding your understanding of money. In order to make significant and life improving change, you must be aware how your views of money negatively effect your ability to change your life.
Erroneous View #1:
Your access to money is directly and solely tied to your job; if you quit your job, you completely cut off your ability to access money
How do you change this view to support the career change you want to make?
Watch Susan’s video as she answers this question with one of the truths about money:
Forbes claims that “50% of Americans dislike or hate their jobs” yet the fear of letting go of a paycheck and leaving the cause of such pain seems impossible to most people–until now.
“Becoming an inner architect“, Susan Hanshaw’s video series, launched one of the most important segments to date: How Do You Let Go of The Paycheck and Lose The Fear? In this multi part segment, Susan asks the question etched on nearly everyone’s mind:
How Do I let Go of My Paycheck and Lose The Fear?
Before you can understand how to take action to eliminate your fear of money-fear of losing the paycheck you must first realize:
You haven’t been shown that there is another way of looking at money
The next 3 videos in our series will show you three erroneous views of money and how you can change those views to release your fears.
1. Fears about your ability to successfully create change
2. Limited beliefs about what you can achieve or who you can become
3. Commitment to taking the necessary steps
For the inner architect evaluation exercise-tool, Personal Steps For Change located on page 6, which gives you the start to a plan of action to change your life, please request your free copyof Chapter 1 “Cultivating Your Mind To Consider Change”:
According to Susan Hanshaw, author of the new book “Inner Architect: How To Build The Life You Were Designed to Live”, one of the most difficult ideas for people to understand and comprehend in order to take action is the idea of choice. For choice is the precursor to change, and as we can attest, sometimes change can be difficult even painful. If you are feeling stuck, if you are feeling lost, or if you are feeling your career has lost meaning, it is time to focus on the answer:
The First 3 Choices of Change:
1. Option #1: Keep everything Status Quo. Take no action and feel no differently
2. Option #2: Make an adjustment somewhere in an effort to influence positive change
3. Option #3: Let go of your job and find something that fits you better
Susan Hanshaw’s video, #2 in the series“Becoming an inner architect”, supports the idea of choice and the options of choice you now face. These concepts and steps were derived fromChapter 1 “Cultivating Your Mind To Consider Change.”
We atinner architectare publishing a book, a life manual, “Inner Architect: How To Build The Life You Were Designed To Live” devoted to helping people become aware of their challenges, find the courage to confront the idea of change, and take the final step by implementing an intentional plan of action.
“The Apprentice Contest” is a first step in giving people the opportunity to review Chapters 1 now and Chapter 2 of “Inner Architect: How To Build The Life You Were Designed To Live” in the future.
The Benefits of Ordering Your Free Copy of Chapter 1
1. Chapter 1 “Cultivating Your Mind to Consider Change” helps readers learn:
a. To identify clues that tell you if your job is no longer working for you
b. Get clarity about how well your job is working for you
c. Understand what this means to you personally
d. Recognize what your choices are
e. Identify which choice you really want to make
f. How prepared you are to make a change
g. Your personal steps needed to prepare you to create your change
Susan provides guidance through steps, questions, and measuring tools (reader exercises) which provide the foundation for you to honestly evaluate your situation.
More importantly, Susan has lived and walked this path of change in her life.She abandoned a very successful 20 year direct marketing career as a Vice President to create a better life.
Woven throughout the book are her personal accounts and struggles of leaving a career that no longer fit her life. In addition to Susan’s story, she fortifies the book with stories from former coaching clients, students of her workshops, friends, and family. This collage paints a truth for many readers who can not help but identify, me included, with many of the scenarios in the book.
Final Analysis: Chapter 1 “Cultivating Your Mind to Consider Change” helps you understand the value of an open mind aka awareness, provide tools to measure where you stand in your beliefs and attitudes toward change, illustrates a methodical process of steps to implement to reach your goals and intended outcomes.
Truly consider Susan’s story, participate in the exercises, and consider where you stand. If you have experiences or thoughts please share them by joining “The Apprentice Contest” featured in our next article.
