Stop Asking What’s Next, Find Your WHY
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.” — Start With WHY by Simon Sinek When The "WHAT Search" No Longer Helps Have you ever had a strange time when nothing on the job search APP makes your heart pumping anymore? Not even the most reputable company names or the biggest job titles? That bewildering feeling happened to me a few years ago. For weeks, I stared blandly at the pages and pages of job descriptions on Linkedin and felt frustrated with why none of them excited me even just a little. A crisis forged inside. I couldn’t stop asking what was wrong with me? Have I lost the drive to move up in career? Or was I being too arrogant? But none of the explanations made any sense back then… Now looking back at that stance, I can see what the problem was — the old story of “why I do what I do”, which was a blend of the stories told by my ex-employer and professionals liked me, suddenly ...