Command Joy by Finding your Top 10

Let’s talk about how to Command Joy with our Top 10 – the Top 10 things we love to do. And let’s figure out how, in this crazy busy world, we can incorporate them into our life!

Take our careers, for instance. The conventional corporate career path would tell us that we start our careers in our 20s, usually in entry level positions. After we have built our foundational skills, we become managers and leaders in our 30s. Then, by the time we hit our 40s -50s, we are leveraging all that experience and cashing in those higher salaries as executives. We expect to see progressive income increases year after year.

Yes….buuut…not necessarily! For me, my career has taken many different routes. I have worked for companies that have merged together and I had to take a decrease in salary. My position title has changed. I’ve been in jobs where I had 6 different bosses within a two year time frame. I’ve worked for companies that were growing so rapidly that what my actual day to day job looked nothing like my job description!
More than likely, our careers are going to start and stop. With corporate downsizing, re-structures, and layoffs, incomes will have some high years and low years.

The so called  “steady paycheck” is steady no more.

So if we can’t rely on finding big corporate jobs in the future, what do we do about it? Well…one thing we can do is protect our paycheck by figuring out our Top 10 Skills.

We can unleash our brilliant potential by understanding what it is that we really LIKE to do and what we are GOOD at doing.

Here’s one way to get started….

• Think back over the course of your life and make a list of everything you can remember that made you happy.
• Now go through the list and highlight those items on your list that involve a skill, and identify that skill.
• Rank your Top 10 highlighted items in the order of the highest level of Joy they bring to you.
• Take your Top 10 and do some research online to figure out if there are ways to make money using that skill. Are there freelancing opportunities? Courses you can teach? You get the idea.
• Rank your Top 10 highlighted items in terms of their income potential.
• Now…GO make that money!

​We have to protect our paychecks by finding multiple streams of income. And it doesn’t have to be hard or stressful or overwhelming! We can take the things that we love and find ways to make money doing them.

Unleash your limitless potential and act on what you already know and love…the more we help each other, the better we’ll be!
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Cheers to your Top 10!