The 2nd Half: Your guide to a more fulfilling career (and life).

The 2nd Half: Your guide to a more fulfilling career (and life).

By Eva Zahrawi RuizBusinessCareers
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  • #27 Vocation. Revelations. Walks&Talks.

    A few days ago I had a long walk in nature and a wonderful conversation which proved to be extremely revealing with regards to my vocation and what I am meant to be doing.

    I was always a bit envious of those people who knew very early on that they were going to be a singer, or a dancer, or a designer... something that I never had (or I didn’t know I had). But I realised it was always there from the beginning.

    The more we can tap into that passion, if we can come closer to that which we were consumed with when we were little, the happier we will be and the more authentic our endeavors will be. It might not seem very apparent, but it is there, if we know where to look at.

    And...I have a specially composed music/tune for The 2nd Half Podcast! From this episode onwards.

    Music Production by Jarl Hector at Clear Music Amsterdam.

    Podcast Editing by Jorge Pastrana 

    21 min
  • #26 Career. Intention. Mid-life crisis.
    Career can be defined as a person's "course or progress through life”. If we look at it that way, then our whole life is a career. The 8 hours a day we spend at work is part of our lifework, of our progress through life. Not a separate thing. And when we step out of the conditioning and change course in our lives, we didn’t leave our career behind, it continues all along with us. If we look at our whole life as a career then we can gather a bigger sense of accountability and intentionality behind our actions. And we will then find everything we do interesting, with a sense of meaning, irrespective of the content of what we do.
    26 min
  • #25 The office is a daily retreat for self development.
    The biggest lesson I received in my life happened at work: I didn’t find it in a book, it didn’t come from some guru nor I found myself somewhere in the Himalayas, where we usually believe self development takes place. The biggest awakening moment of my life took place in the office.
    We don’t see our jobs as a place for self growth whilst it is full of opportunities daily if we open our ears and welcome what is right in front of our very eyes, every single day, when we open our laptops.
    32 min
  • #24 Preparation. Patience. Perseverance.
    Time to get into action if we want a different life, which doesn’t depend on the job we have today or the paycheck we receive monthly. Everything is possible, but are we ready to put in the effort? To take the time, to realize that it is a hell of a lot of work and that “just give me the pill” and overnight success doesn’t really exist. If we are willing and ready to put ourselves to it, there are 3 things that will help us to start taking charge and change things around: The 3 Ps.
    41 min
  • #23 Money, Growth, Success: my year theme for 2020.
    Every year I choose one theme: more than 90% of what I watch, read, listen to and consume revolves around that one single theme. It is 12 months dedicated to go deep into a subject. By going vertical into one topic you get focused, you learn, you progress, you become knowledgeable and can almost master that topic. Instead of doing a bit of everything but nothing really strongly. It is about improving a whole load of aspects in your life, one by one, rather than feeling like there is so much more we would like to do but we don’t get around to do it and the frustration that comes with it. Here’s the recap of my 2020 and the theme I chose to focus on: money, growth, success.
    40 min
  • #22 Forget your purpose. Ditch plans, deadlines and new year’s resolutions.
    If we want to make it big we have to make it very small. There is no one that wakes up one day so enlightened having figured out what their big purpose, what their calling in life is. It’s a whole process, it’s a journey. Only when it gets told in retrospect it sounds so grand that if we haven’t figured it out for ourselves we feel very small. And that is not necessary. We just have to look at it differently. Here’s how to break it in pieces so that we can come close to that calling, attain our goals and enjoy the process instead.
    38 min
  • #21 Increase your joy. Share your gifts.
    Share what you like doing, share what you’re good at, share your gifts. Daily. Do it for you, do it for others, as a matter of duty, as a matter of service. Here’s a little bit of a different take on the use of social media to increase our joy and happiness.
    22 min
  • #20 The word Why is problematic..
    Here’s installment 3 regarding the use of our words and the power they have. Without having to follow very difficult techniques and frameworks: there are words that if we stop using them our lives will heavily change for the better. We will have less conflict and much more fulfillment. Number 1 is Should. Number 2 is Need. And here’s number 3: Why.
    15 min

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