Marni is joined in the Life Check Yourself studio by the author and founder of Careers with Wings, Marcy Morrison. Marcy supports hundreds of people to live the life they love and to create a career from their passion. She also is a speaker at corporate conferences and a facilitator of life coaching workshops. Marcy shares her personal journey and steps for how we can form careers around what makes us happiest.
Key takeaways from this episode:
Marcy didn't feel she fit into her generation. She always wanted more than the two paths others took. She felt she only had two options. One, work for a corporation and sell her soul or save the world and live in poverty. She slowly realized that she could do more to save the world with a degree in business than on volunteer journeys. Shortly after beginning her career, she got pregnant and created Careers with Wings so she could do what she loved at work and at home.
Many people get caught in the — I wish I would have — It’s too late for me now — I just have to suffer through five more years of this — syndrome. Marcy says if you don’t change your life no one else will do it for you. Start making a plan now.
How to Get Started Living Your Passions [8:26]
Give yourself permission to get your wings and gain your freedom. Marcy thinks many people think of career transitions backward. When you focus on what career you will have and think of your vision for happiness second, you get off on the wrong foot. That is where regrets come from.
When you know you want to spend more time with your children but your work schedule doesn’t allow it, you are not living your truth. Marcy asks her clients to flip the process and consider what they want in their life, and then how they can get a career that plays into it.
Marcy says you can get creative with a short term strategy that doesn’t pigeon hole you into deciding one way or another. Maybe it is a mix of things that will feed your passion.
Stability is the backbone of exploration.
Reevaluating what makes you happy and what is important to you at each stage of your life is the number one thing you can do to begin following your passions. Also, keep a journal for flashes of inspiration. What things do you enjoy? What do you have fun doing? Are you doing enough of those things?
Looking for happiness outside of yourself is a waste of time. You have to love yourself.
Some people believe they need to blow up everything in their lives and make drastic changes because they don't know how to make incremental changes toward what they want. Marcy’s advice, give yourself a break and take time off to think about it. Make a list and put the simple things at the top. Turn the old way outside down and fill your tank up first.
Put together the pieces of your passion puzzle.
Life is short. Give yourself the space to dream because the dream is where the magic is.
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