{"id":933,"date":"2013-06-10T11:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=933"},"modified":"2013-06-10T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:01:36","slug":"5-reasons-to-think-carefully-about-your-dreams-and-design-your-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/5-reasons-to-think-carefully-about-your-dreams-and-design-your-career\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons To Think Carefully About Your Dreams and Design Your Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2F5-reasons-to-think-carefully-about-your-dreams-and-design-your-career%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/changella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/start.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/changella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/start-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"start\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I wanted to share a post I wrote to help motivate college students in designing their career as business leaders and paying attention to their dreams and passions. \u00a0 I hope this post helps you as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveramsey.com\/entreleadership\" target=\"_blank\">EntreLeadership<\/a>\u201d, Dave Ramsey coaches business leaders to design their enterprises with the following phrase: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/a1611.g.akamai.net\/f\/1611\/26342\/9h\/dramsey.download.akamai.com\/23572\/audio\/mp3\/entreleadership\/podcast\/entreleadership-20111108.mp3?r\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cStart with a dream! End in a goal\u201d<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0 As we help you design your life as an entrepreneur and business leader, we challenge you to dream big.<\/p>\n<p>Think about a time in your life when you couldn\u2019t wait to get out of bed and work on a project?\u00a0 Think about a time where you were very passionate about working on something.\u00a0\u00a0 What were you doing? What strengths were you using?\u00a0\u00a0 Why are those moments so meaningful for you?<\/p>\n<p>We challenge you to find the intersection between your strengths\/passion, market needs, and what people will purchase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/changella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/strength_need_pay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20 alignnone\" title=\"Strength Need Pay\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/changella\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/strength_need_pay-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Strength Need Pay\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During our family road trips, my wife Sarah and I are very reflective in our conversations.\u00a0\u00a0 During a talk we had taking our kids to the zoo, we started to reflect upon the following question:\u00a0 What does our dream job look like?\u00a0 What type of work helps us feel passionate and excited about our day?\u00a0\u00a0 As we talked, I sketched out this funny little sketch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?attachment_id=20\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/michaelrosario\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/agile_creativity_business.png\" alt=\"Agile, Creativity, Business\" width=\"256\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During my most potent and engaged times of life, creativity, agile culture, and a spirit of caring for our community have been the magic ingredients of those moments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a choir director, I started learning the craft of continuous and incremental improvement with our team of volunteer music ministers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I loved how collaborative and fun our choir was in making music.<\/li>\n<li>As a software developer for a distance learning company, we were not supporting a cold sales process.\u00a0\u00a0 Our team was helping to connect adult learners with hope.\u00a0\u00a0 With the hope of getting a better education and degree, these learners can help their families and careers to thrive.<\/li>\n<li>As an agile coach for a research institution, I really enjoy helping our software teams serve the community with creative software solutions.\u00a0 It\u2019s especially fun to help organizations find ways to streamline their processes and push the boundaries of knowledge and technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 \u00a0Reasons To Think Carefully About Your Dreams and Design Your Career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Dreams and passions focus the design of your career:<\/strong>\u00a0 Life is too short to do work that lacks meaning.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s very easy to let other people or the market to craft your personal career direction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By thinking about your dreams and putting your dreams on paper, you are more likely to realize them.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Live your life with purpose:<\/strong>\u00a0 Our generation is not satisfied with simply chasing careers that make money.\u00a0\u00a0 Our generation seeks meaning, to serve a higher purpose, and use our passions. Live a life uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Dreams and passion help you endure when times are challenging:\u00a0<\/strong> In the school of building a business or leading, you will face critics and failure. \u00a0 If you&#8217;re doing something that matters, this will always happen. \u00a0 \u00a0If you decide to center your career path on your personal dreams and passions, you can motivate yourself to endure these challenging times.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>The world needs you and your insight and creativity:\u00a0<\/strong> In the media, it\u2019s very easy to find problems.\u00a0\u00a0 Entrepreneurs need to practice the craft of designing solutions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The world needs leaders like you who aren&#8217;t going to sit around for someone else to care.\u00a0\u00a0 As business innovators, we need to work together to make the new apps that make a difference.\u00a0\u00a0 As leaders, we need to invent the new business models that inspire changes in health care, education, and our families.\u00a0 Entrepreneurs are in the business of making positive change.<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>Design your career:\u00a0<\/strong> As you consider your dream, we encourage you to dream big.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Dream bigger!\u00a0 Take the time to write your dream on paper.\u00a0\u00a0 Take 20 to 30 minutes of quiet reflection.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Write down a few ideas of how you want to make a difference in the world in 5 years.\u00a0\u00a0 You are the captain of your ship of life.\u00a0\u00a0 Live your life with purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the following TEDx talk by\u00a0Josh Levs. \u00a0 Josh, a very passionate entrepreneur and journalist, challenges us to achieve the impossible by breaking the system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8CA0BLub44\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photo from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jakeandlindsay\/5524669257\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jakeandlindsay\/5524669257\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other posts from InspiredToEducate.NET<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"5 ways to get more results in your teaching environment.\" href=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=246\" target=\"_blank\">5 ways to get more results in your teaching environment<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How to reduce stress by keeping work organized using EverNote\" href=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=196\" target=\"_blank\">How to reduce stress by keeping work organized using EverNote<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Why is perspective critical to leading and teaching?\" href=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=278\" target=\"_blank\">Why is perspective critical to leading and teaching?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"7 Lessons Learned from Teaching Students to propose an Idea for Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=724\" target=\"_blank\">7 Lessons Learned from Teaching Students to propose an Idea for Kickstarter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"10 Strategies To Inspire Innovation and Fun In Projects\" href=\"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=537\" target=\"_blank\">10 Strategies To Inspire Innovation and Fun In Projects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2F5-reasons-to-think-carefully-about-your-dreams-and-design-your-career%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share a post I wrote to help motivate college students in designing their career as business leaders and paying attention to their dreams and passions. \u00a0 I hope this post helps you as well. 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