Listen to council of successful people from their own mouths:

"Failure is opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon closed door, that we do not see ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

Do you linger in bed long after your alarm goes off on work mornings? Do you dread Sunday nights because they lead to Monday mornings? Do you watch clock and wonder if day will ever end? Do you look outside your workplace and ask, “Is there more to life than just this job?”

If you suffer from any of these symptoms, it is time for you to create a new career! In her CD book, Advanced Energy Anatomy, Carolyn Myss, Ph.D. lays out a seven-step process for bringing an idea to physical creation. Here’s that seven-step process applied to creating a new career inspiration.

1. Get Inspired. Inspiration comes from Latin words that mean, “to breathe in”. To infuse your career creation with life, passion, and excitement, ask yourself,

·What would I do if money were not an object? ·What did I love to do as a child but left behind? ·What activity do I do so intently that I don’t notice time passing? ·Am I interested in turning down road not taken at a past career fork in road?

Dig deeply, don’t censor your answers and write each inspiration on a separate piece of paper.

2. What Do You Think? Run each of your inspirations through your head! Ask,

·Can I see myself doing this? ·Does it make sense? ·Do I think I can do it? ·Am I willing to think about it?

Be honest in answering these questions, and record your answers on each idea’s page. Rule out inspirations that don’t survive here.

3. What About Your Will? Run each of surviving ideas through your will! Your will houses your mental capabilities for choosing, intending, wishing and desiring. Ask yourself,

·Will I be able to do this? ·Am I able to communicate it? ·Am I able to make right choices and decisions to do this?

Again, write down your answers for each idea. Narrow your list of ideas once more to ones you believe you’ll be able to do, communicate or make right choices for.

4. What Do You Feel? Run your survivors through your heart! Ask yourself,

·How do I feel about this? ·Does it feel right to me? ·Can I follow my heart on these inspirations?

Write answers to these questions for each idea; rule out ones your heart isn’t into.

Here’s where going gets tough. The first four steps are energetic. They’re ephemeral, they don’t affect your physical life, and they’re cheap and easy. The next three steps involve assessing your surviving career ideas in physical world.

5. What Will Others Think? Run your surviving inspirations through your self-esteem. Ask yourself,