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Finding Your Inner Fly or How Do I Find My Inner Calling and Integrate It Into a Career?

Finding Your Inner Fly or How Do I Find My Inner Calling and Integrate It Into a Career?. What’s My Inner Fly?. Human fruit flies often seem genetically predisposed to do what they do Instinctively combine their passions with their aptitudes

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Finding Your Inner Fly or How Do I Find My Inner Calling and Integrate It Into a Career?

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  1. Finding Your Inner Flyor How Do I Find My Inner Calling and Integrate It Into a Career?

  2. What’s My Inner Fly? • Human fruit flies often seem genetically predisposed to do what they do • Instinctively combine their passions with their aptitudes • The rest of us have to work a little harder to discover what we’re good at and what we enjoy • CMT 300 – Connections and Specializations – is about finding our Inner Fly or that special calling that makes us tick

  3. Four Steps to Find Your Inner Fly • Find the one thing you love to do • Look beyond business to your hobbies and interests • Break it down • What is it about what you love to do that leads me to do this for its own sake? • Connect the dots • Figure out what type of career, company or industry needs your skills • Market your vision • Sell yourself based on your calling

  4. Three Words That Should Not Be Used Interchangeably • Vocation • Career • Job

  5. Vocation • This is your true calling • What you do in life that makes a difference for you • Look back across life in later years – what was my impact? • Comes from the Latin vocare, which means to call • Suggests you are listening for something that calls out to you, something that is particular to you

  6. Career • Your line of work • You can have different careers across your life that fulfill your vocation • Comes from the Latin work for cart and later from the Middle French word for racetrack. • In other words, you go round and round really fast for a long time but never go anywhere!

  7. Job • The most specific and immediate of the three terms • Relates to who is employing you at the moment and what your job description is for the next six months

  8. Where are your Deep Interests? • Think of your interests as a deep geothermal pool • Once you tap into them you can express them in a number of ways • Ex: You may have a particular aptitude for science or math • But without a deep interest in expressing that aptitude you’ll fail

  9. Values are the Key to Happiness • People are happiest when their work corresponds with their values and challenges them to fulfill their potential • Adrian Savage, cofounder of Potentia • Potentia focuses its consulting on looking forward • Ability is less a matte of innate talent than of habit, circumstance and motivation • Ex: People at war – do amazing things they didn’t know they could do • Listen to your values • When you are in a situation where you don’t feel comfortable or that isn’t you, it’s your values talking

  10. What Values Influence Our Choices for Ourselves? • Our ways of thinking • Our habits of action • Our decisions • Our motivations • Who am I? • Why am I here?

  11. Tools We Can Use • Strong Interest Survey • We will complete and analyze our responses to this tool • We will include this in the 5th External • Other tools: • Sample of Potential system • MGT 100 text

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