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Do you feel stuck in your career? Have you lost the passion that once motivated you? If so, you’re not alone.
Louise Mandar of Starting an Online Business explains that feeling stuck is common. Over time, we tend to forget why we want to achieve specific goals that we’ve set for ourselves. She offers several tips to get unstuck and find your business passion again:
- Get a piece of paper and jot down all the reasons why you started in the first place.
- Do the reasons still excite you? If not, maybe you need to rewrite them. When the reasons feel right and exciting, write them down with flourish and post them in your workspace.
- Get visual by creating a vision board online.
- Do a collage or painting to hang in your office. Just remember to place your passion creation where you can see it and drink it in when you start losing your focus.
How do you boost your business passion? Leave a comment and share your tips to find your passion and focus again when you go off course.
Get the details: Getting Unstuck & Finding Your Business Passion Again via louisemandar.com
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Susan Gunelius is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Women on Business. She is a 30-year veteran of the marketing field and has authored a dozen books about marketing, branding, and social media, including the highly popular Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, 30-Minute Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing for Dummies, Blogging All-in-One for Dummies and Kick-ass Copywriting in 10 Easy Steps. Susan’s marketing-related content can be found on Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, MSNBC.com, BusinessWeek.com, and more. Susan is President & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a marketing communications company. She has worked in corporate marketing roles and through client relationships with AT&T, HSBC, Citibank, Intuit, The New York Times, Cox Communications, and many more large and small companies around the world. Susan also speaks about marketing, branding and social media at events around the world and is frequently interviewed by television, online, radio, and print media organizations about these topics. She holds an MBA in Management and Strategy and a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and is a Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC).
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Great article… thank you, Susan!
Sometimes it works to go the non-logical route to re-connect with your passion. As passion can manifest in endlessly different forms and the one which excited you to begin with might not be the one which will excite you now. So, get a huge piece of blank paper and coloured pens or crayons (pencils aren’t fluid enough) and in a doodle kind of way start drawing your ‘passion’.
Let you hand move as it wants and choose different colours as it wants. You will know when you’re finished because you’ll have a kinda ‘it’s done’ feeling. Put the drawing somewhere you can see it as you pass by in your everyday life. Then, wait 24 hours, recording any thoughts or insights you get in the meantime.
After at least 24 hours, go over your thoughts, insights and the drawing itself…. and let them tell you exactly what you need to know about your career and living your passion. Your unconscious mind will now be working with your conscious mind to give you precisely the information you need to move forward.
Warm wishes to you… Sharon
I’ve found that telling someone about my business and my ideas gets me excited again, especially when I get to the ‘why’, and it is someone who is giving me positive feedback and new ideas. Maybe take someone you recently met out for coffee or breakfast, and you not only are working on networking, you are also re-energizing yourself!