4 Exercises to Help You Uncover Your Dream Career - When I Grow Up

4 Exercises to Help You Uncover Your Dream Career - When I Grow Up Live your passion. Follow your bliss. Do what you love. You’ve probably heard advice like this, and more when it comes to finding and achieving your dream career. If you want to find fulfilling work, you have to love what you do, right? You have to passionate about it, right? You need to be blissed out 24/7 on it, right? If you’re reading this article, this is probably something you’re super nervous about. Maybe you haven’t felt passionate, blissful, or fulfilled about any one thingâ€"especially all the time. Or maybe many things give you that feeling, and you fear having to pick one to do until it’s time to retire. I have good news for you, then. I’ve worked with thousands of creative people on their dream careers since 2008, and what I kept finding was this: It’s not about doing what you love or loving what you do. It’s about getting clarity on your lifestyle goals, and then figuring out what you need to do to bring them to life. Simply put, a “dream career” is one that allows you to wake up in the morning, think about the day ahead, and look forward to at least 70% of it. If you’re doing work you enjoy with people you like being around, and it leaves room for your personal priorities, then you’re in the sweet spot. Do you want your lifestyle to allow you to pick up your kids from the bus and spend quality time with them until bed? Then that’s a piece of your dream career puzzle. Do you want to be able to work from anywhere, filling up your passport quickly? Then that’s a piece of your dream career puzzle. Do you want to be able to attend a lunchtime yoga class every weekday? Then that’s a piece of your dream career puzzle. If you need to uncover your lifestyle goals, read the rest of my post over on General Assembly!