Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search

There's so much conflicting information out there about what creates more fulfilling, more desirable work:

• Is it the job?
• Is it the company?
• Is it the type of role or occupation?
• Is meaningful work really even obtainable in the first place?

The short answer is "yes," but in reality it happens differently than what most of the world thinks it does.

Thanks to Philips for their openness and access to both their leadership team and employees as we put this all together.

Check out more about what Philips has to offer.

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc to learn how we can best help!

This is a special episode. This is episode 300!

We are bringing on a bunch of people today to give you a behind-the-scenes look at several aspects of the HTYC podcast. We'll hear from several members of the HTYC team, we also have several surprise guests, all sharing a bit of how we all met Scott and how HTYC has helped us.

We'll also have some of the best tips if you feel stuck in your career.

And we're going to have a little fun at the same time (because that's what we do).

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc to learn how we can best help!

Many of us get exhausted. Maybe it's because of a lack of sleep. Maybe it's from working too much or too hard. Maybe it's from stress.

But being exhausted doesn't mean that it has to be a negative in your life.

Laura Morrison was used to be exhausted, but now it feels different.

"So, I still leave work exhausted. It's just that now the exhaustion is from kind of flexing my brain and personal development and kind of much more excitement about the work that I'm doing and being invested in it."

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc to learn how we can best help!

What if I told you that the number 1 way to land your dream job is having confidence? Would you feel like you're on the path to getting there...or just stuck? Well, if your answer is "just stuck"--you're not alone. In our latest podcast episode Laura, one of our stellar Career Change Bootcamp Graduates tells us how it took her nearly 3 years to leave a job she wasn't passionate about because she felt the same way. Tune in to hear how she went from disengaged to confident--and so can you!

"Now looking back at it. I never really asked myself the questions of whether I wanted to to do this. It is just normal. Many of us do that."

That's what Michal Balass had said when I asked her where her career started.

She went on to explain that she spent years getting her Doctorate and when it came time to get a job she did it without thinking… because that's what you do! It is normal.

Unfortunately doing things the normal way without question put Michal in the same place many others are:

In a job that isn't a great fit and doesn't particularly line up with what you want out of life!

Michal tolerated it for years. (probably for much too long)

To binge-listen to more career happiness success stories (and career hacks), find all the podcasts at https://happentoyourcareer.com/podcast

Or tell us more about your personal career situation and schedule a conversation with our team go to https://happentoyourcareer.com/schedule-htyc to learn how we can best help!

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On the Happen To Your Career podcast, we have shown many career changes and the changes that come to our lives as a whole. We have talked with dozens of people on the podcast that we have personally worked with to make these changes. But one thing we haven't really shown you is the fact that change isn't just a one-time event.

As we continue to learn about ourselves and as we grow, our lives change. This is often in the form of changes in family (having more kids, kids growing up), moving to a different house or city, or developing new skills. This growth also results in changes in your goals and desires.

You begin to see a bigger and better picture of what you want to do in your life.

Over the next several months, we are going to be bringing some past guests back onto the podcast to catch up with where they are now and how things have changed since we last had them on the podcast.

So this week, we are bringing Michal Balass back onto the podcast. Tomorrow, I'm going to share the recent conversation I had with her; but to help us understand where she is now, today we're going to hear her story from the last time she was on the show.

By now you should have a decision! Yeah!

Let's celebrate!

But if you don't yet...It's ok!

This is a lifelong process and some people want and need more help than the email course! We have created other types of help because I whole heartedly believe and know just how important this is!

I have seen lives change again and again when our students get clear on what they want!

By the way, if you want to get this sent straight to your email box to you can always go to FigureItOut.co and drop in your email address. And that will get sent right to your email box. Or you can text HAPPEN to 44222 and you get the exact same thing.

It's up to you now! We've done all we can do to get you on the path to the job that you love. All that is left is to decide to take the next step.

Here's 3 tips (and one video) to help you make this decision:

1. Everything does not depend on this.
2. You're well prepared!
3. "Magic happens when you're in motion" –Richie Norton.

By the way, if you want to get this sent straight to your email box to you can always go to FigureItOut.co and drop in your email address. And that will get sent right to your email box. Or you can text HAPPEN to 44222 and you get the exact same thing.

Here's the reality: Decisions are hard. They don't sound like they should be hard, but they stop people every single day, usually many many times a day from doing something productive.

So much so that I personally spend much of my energy eliminating unimportant decision making from my life that I won't care about years or even weeks from now. Decisions like what do I have for breakfast or what should I wear today or what order should I begin my day take only small amounts of energy, time and effort separately but they start to add up quickly. And Big decisions like where should I spend my time and effort and energy in my career sometimes seem almost overwhelming to tackle.

By the way, if you want to get this sent straight to your email box to you can always go to FigureItOut.co and drop in your email address. And that will get sent right to your email box. Or you can text HAPPEN to 44222 and you get the exact same thing.

Our minds are amazing.

We can do absolutely unbelievable things with our brains! One thing we can do is we can very effectively filter and sort information. This is a huge benefit to us, but can also cause a lot of problems in the form of cognitive bias.

This just means that as human beings the way our brains function can actually bias us toward or away from certain things like steering us away from those areas that might be uncomfortable and toward familiarity.

But what if you could take some of this knowledge about your brain and use it to turn potentially negative biases into an advantage.

15 years ago, the first time I really realized that you could hack your brain's normal functions, my mind was blown, too.

By the way, if you want to get this sent straight to your email box to you can always go to FigureItOut.co and drop in your email address. And that will get sent right to your email box. Or you can text HAPPEN to 44222 and you get the exact same thing.

Remember in the last lesson when we talked about how most people miss the simple logic: you have to know where you're going to be able to figure out how to get there.

Well, this applies to more than just the job you have or a business that you run.

Just try to separate out your work from the rest of your life!

You can't.

The people you spend the most time with or don't spend the most time with is often influenced by your work.

So is your personal growth as a person, where you physically spend your time, and even the amount of money that you earn.

For this reason, it's incredibly important for you to understand not just what you want in your work but also what you want in every other area of your life!

And guess what else, anything that you want in your life isn't going to happen by accident.

By the way, if you want to get this sent straight to your email box to you can always go to FigureItOut.co and drop in your email address. And that will get sent right to your email box. Or you can text HAPPEN to 44222 and you get the exact same thing.