Something keeps
echoing – “Do what you love”! Listen to
motivational speeches or read career-oriented articles – they pump your mind
with the same statement, “If it’s about choosing a career, do what you love,
because everything is possible”. It’s a dangerous statement. Don’t forget, there
is a timeline to every possibility. And that timeline could be hazy. I have
usually seen the notion of “everything is possible” is outrageously overrated. Right
now, why don’t you go and demand from the powers of the universe to grant you
all the money in the world at your doorstep tomorrow morning? Possible? How
about assessing possibilities in a practical way? How about assessing “what you
love” in a practical way? I am sure you don’t want to get overly emotional and
head out like a raging bull to achieve what you love.
So imagine
there are two career options in your hand. You love the second one – and you
don’t realize that the first option lies pretty well within your capability and is suitably possible than the other.
So because you love the second one, you go
for it, despite you lack skills to achieve it. Soon you realize, although you
do everything you need, you fail to achieve it. Time comes, when you get bogged
down. You come across “love what you do” OR “everything is possible” OR “demand
from the universe” speeches. You get tentatively inspired. You pick yourself
up, and start from scratch. To your surprise, failure says hello again. You
feel shattered, and you quit. Then one day, you are gone from this world with
an old grumpy feeling that says “I couldn’t do what I loved”. Game over! Isn’t
it? Now what happened to “do what you love” statement? How about considering
this – “do what you can possibly love”?
Time to
simplify and discover a simple solution with a bit of wisdom-twist. Strictly, don’t
start with “what you love”. Work it out the reverse-engineering way. Begin with
all the skills and talents that are lovable about you and see if they perfectly
complement the things you could possibly pursue in life. The best of these are
your God-gifts – count them. God-gifts are capabilities that you are born with.
Now count your skills. Skills are capabilities that you acquire from the
environment around you. When you contain a natural ability of doing something
combined with skills, chances are high, that it will take fewer efforts for you
to conquer the world. Next and the last step is to consider what you love. See if you can
count upon your God-gifts and skills in line with what you love. Assess with your
utmost wisdom whether they go well together or not. And you will magically have
an answer to all your questions. It could be this way or that way. Not a
problem now. At least you considered your most important assets, your capabilities.
We must
assign and align our capabilities to possibilities, rather than aligning
out-of-the-blue random thoughts. Note it down – In life, there are things that
you do first, and then start loving them! So along with “what you want to do”,
pay close attention to “what you can do”. And don’t take me wrong. I never
meant to say, don’t do what you love. Just consider my reverse-engineering way-out,
explained above. Remember, this is the simplest and the most practical way to
approach anything you do in life. As I always say, the key is Simplifikayshun!
Rajat
Kalra
Man of Simplifikayshun
