Turn Your Childhood Dreams Into Reality If You Have to Make a Career Change

Childhood dreams may hold the secret of what to do if you lose your job or voluntarily decide to make a change.  Those things you loved to do as a child have the seeds of your vocation, if you but look for them.

Let’s pretend you were the kid who organized the slumber parties, got the girls over and made sure that the little boys weren’t going to know where or when it was going to occur so they wouldn’t do something silly, like climb up in the trees and yell boo all night.  That organizing skill might be the essence of who you are and what you could be to make money.

Think about what you liked about the activity.  Perhaps it was the people contact.  Maybe it was getting the invitations out while someone else actually organized the event. Perhaps you greeted the girls and made sure that the refreshments were to their liking.  You might have coordinated the event with the parents and the community so that everyone approved and knew respective times and schedules.

So if you liked all of those activities perhaps you are an event coordinator since that career involves bringing all aspects of an event together to make it happen.  If you liked organizing and preparing the food, maybe you would enjoy being a caterer.  Enjoyment specifically in working with the community and getting out information about the event by way of fliers and printed material is related to a communications specialist and that childhood interest might indicate that’s the best occupation for you.

So what you will become in your transition from school to preparing for work or from education to career, or changing jobs, will come from reflecting upon those early experiences where you began to form your opinions, interests and attitudes towards work.  That’s the foundation from which you can explore your spiritual nature and what it was that motivated you then that can motivate you now.

So as you begin to make your journey of change, begin by going back to those early childhood times in your mind.  Sit back quietly and think about what made you happy about those experiences.  What parts of them did you like and which ones annoyed you?   Consider how what you did impacted others and how that made you feel.  Now you have a way to find yourself again and begin forming a new path.

Perhaps the poet in you has been restless, and now is the time for you to write.  So do.  Don’t deny what you are, for that old adage about doing what you love and the money will come is true if indeed it is what you love and you work towards excellence in whatever you do that you love.  It is the combination of that hard work and that love of it that brings the success you want.  Without the love, the motivation for excellence is less than it could be so your achievement will be less.  Your dreams of childhood might come true, and you could be happier than you’ve ever been, even after experiencing the loss of a previous career.  Listen then to the small still voice in quiet times about all those things you once enjoyed because you will hear in the very silence of your thoughts the answer to your direction, especially if you have done that reflection on childhood dreams and joys.