I Hate My Job

How many times have you heard someone say these words?

"I Hate My Job!"

Sadly, you've probably heard these words or some other form of this statement more times than you can even count.
Why is it that so many people share this feeling today?

I believe that the reason so many people feel this way is because they are working in jobs/careers that do NOT match who they are.

In other words, most people are frustrated with their jobs because they are working in job fields that neither match their natural talents & giftings nor their natural motivations and passions.

If you want to experience more career satisfaction, and even get to the point where you find yourself saying, "I LOVE my Job!", you must first find out what your "Sweet Spot" is! Your "Sweet Spot" is the place where your: 1) talents, skills, and giftings overlap your 2) passions, motivations, and energizing activities.

Said in another way, your "Sweet Spot" is where you're good at doing something that you love.
Most people find themselves using skills that they have developed which they are now good at but they don't enjoy using those skills.

I recently heard it said that "Being good at something is not enough reason to do it." Meaning that if you are good at something but don't enjoy doing it, then you probably shouldn't be doing it. If you aren't enjoying what you are doing, if you don't get some form of pleasure from the activity, then don't continue doing it.

So how do you find a career where you can wake up excited every morning to go to work? How can you be assured that you will be able to say, "I love my work! I am passionate about what I do!"?

The first step is to discover your Sweet Spot. This means you discover the place where your talents and abilities overlap your motivations and passions. (see my posts on "Who Am I?" to discover how to do this)

Once you know who you are, what you are good at that you enjoy doing, then your next step is one of these two options:

1. 
   
   Find a business or individual who is doing what you love and start working for them


2. 
   
   Start your own business using your gifts to serve as many people as you possibly can
   

You don't have to hate your job. You have a choice! You can make a decision today to start doing something that you love, that uses your God given skills and abilities, and that gives you a sense of purpose, meaning, value, and significance.

What are you waiting for? Take action now!

My Sweet Spot

Up to this point we've looked at how to analyze your MAPP exam on Assessment.com. In this post we are going to look at how to use that information to determine your personal "Sweet Spot".




Wikipedia defines a Sweet Spot as "a place where you get a maximum response for a given amount of effort."



In our lives, this is the place where our: 1) talents, skills, and giftings overlap our 2) passions, motivations, and energizing activities.


The most effective people in the world are those who have discovered their Sweet Spot and are living the majority of their life within it.


So, in my last post we made a summary of what I have within my Talent and Motivation circles. Using the info from that summary we are going to start identifying what my Sweet Spot contains.

The first step is to re-read both lists and write down anything that shows up on both lists.


My Sweet Spot:

• Leading, directing, managing, and supervising people.
  


• Communicating to people in an influential or persuasive manor.



• Teaching people information that will result in their good, growth, or gain.
  


• Seeing the big picture and directing people within that picture towards the accomplishment of the overall goal.



• Coordinate the skills and direct the actions of others towards a goal that benefits everyone.
  

The second step is to put this summary into one short sentence. Here is what you could say my Sweet Spot is:

Communicating information that will inspire people to take action and then leading them, through providing direction and coordinating their skills within the scope of the big picture, towards the accomplishment of a goal that benefits everyone.

The third step in using the MAPP test is to go back to the top of your MAPP Assessment, where we chose the top 5-10 phrases that jumped out at us and motivated us the most, and compare them with our Sweet Spot summary to see how they fit within it.

Here were my top motivational phrases from the career list:

1. Develop/apply human skills


2. teach


3. instruct


4. human development


5. training


6. inform

As you can see, these phrases are an exact match of my "Sweet Spot" summary.

Now that we have extracted a pretty clear picture of who we are from the MAPP exam, we should have a pretty clear answer to the question, "Who Am I?"

However, during my journey to discovering "Who I Am" I chose to validate my MAPP exam findings with a series of other tests and simple processes. Although the other exams did not uncover any new or 'life changing' information about myself, I found that they made my picture of 'Who I Am' even clearer by giving even more detail into some of the other components and aspects of my life.

One of my next posts will show you what these tests and processes are and give you some guidance on how you can walk through them to if you would like.

Thanks again for reading my posts!