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Fall In Love with Your Work Life: Uncovering Your Passion and Finding Your Dream Career.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Since we’re all completely over being told to pair off in order to signal to the rest of the world that our lives are (somewhat) on track, we thought ‘Why don’t we just focus on actually getting our lives in order?’ In that vein, Kristen Walker helps the Levo League to take a close look at what we find important in our lives and careers.

We’ve all been told that in order to love our job and achieve lasting career happiness and success, we simply have to follow our passion. Inspiring, right? While there is obviously plenty of truth to this cliché, the advice it provides is so vague that it can often feel almost totally useless. And if you’re anything like me, it can cause more anxiety than encouragement, especially if you don’t have a clue how to take that first step in following your passion. Or — and this can feel even scarier — what happens if you don’t even know what you’re passionate about to start with? What if you want to have a career that makes you feel fulfilled, but you just don’t know what that career is yet?

Some of you may already have a clear idea of exactly what it is you want to do with your life. Maybe you’re already working in your field and embarking on the journey to your ideal career. Those of you who fall into this category — you are the lucky few! But if you’re like the majority of Gen Y-ers, you’re likely struggling to uncover what you’re truly passionate about, much less determine how to make it into a viable career.

In her book 20 Something Manifesto, Christine Hassler compares finding your life direction to eating at the Cheesecake Factory. With 167 menu options to choose from, (not including beverages, sides, and, of course, cheesecake flavors), the Cheesecake Factory’s menu can induce mild panic, even to the most decisive of us. Hassler describes her reaction the first time she perused this menu: “How was I supposed to pick just one dish? What was the best thing? As everyone else around me ordered, I became even more anxious — should I get what someone else was having? Would it be better than what I thought I wanted?” You may feel this way when trying to uncover your passions or ideal career path. There are so many options available, the idea of choosing just one is daunting!

Some of us will decide that the best way to solve the mystery of our missing passion is to try out various new activities or jobs to see which one sticks. There’s an undercurrent of romance and excitement in the belief that one day you can try something completely new and have an epiphany: This is it! This is what I’m meant to do with my life! But Jonathan Acuff refutes this concept in his book Quitter.

Acuff believes that finding your dream job “is more than a revelation or an act of discovery. I believe it’s a process of recovery. More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It’s usually a reunion.” 

So in order to help you on your path to recovering your passion, I’ve developed an interactive series of questions called “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” to help you reflect on your innate interests, talents, and strengths. Then, in the next article in this series, you’ll learn how to determine if your passion will make a sustainable and fulfilling career.

Ready to rescue your inner passion? Go to “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” now. 
Feb 08
Fall In Love with Your Work Life: Uncovering Your Passion and Finding Your Dream Career. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Since we’re all completely over being told to pair off in order to signal to the rest of the world that our lives are (somewhat) on track, we thought ‘Why don’t we just focus on actually getting our lives in order?’ In that vein, Kristen Walker helps the Levo League to take a close look at what we find important in our lives and careers. We’ve all been told that in order to love our job and achieve lasting career happiness and success, we simply have to follow our passion. Inspiring, right? While there is obviously plenty of truth to this cliché, the advice it provides is so vague that it can often feel almost totally useless. And if you’re anything like me, it can cause more anxiety than encouragement, especially if you don’t have a clue how to take that first step in following your passion. Or — and this can feel even scarier — what happens if you don’t even know what you’re passionate about to start with? What if you want to have a career that makes you feel fulfilled, but you just don’t know what that career is yet? Some of you may already have a clear idea of exactly what it is you want to do with your life. Maybe you’re already working in your field and embarking on the journey to your ideal career. Those of you who fall into this category — you are the lucky few! But if you’re like the majority of Gen Y-ers, you’re likely struggling to uncover what you’re truly passionate about, much less determine how to make it into a viable career. In her book 20 Something Manifesto, Christine Hassler compares finding your life direction to eating at the Cheesecake Factory. With 167 menu options to choose from, (not including beverages, sides, and, of course, cheesecake flavors), the Cheesecake Factory’s menu can induce mild panic, even to the most decisive of us. Hassler describes her reaction the first time she perused this menu: “How was I supposed to pick just one dish? What was the best thing? As everyone else around me ordered, I became even more anxious — should I get what someone else was having? Would it be better than what I thought I wanted?” You may feel this way when trying to uncover your passions or ideal career path. There are so many options available, the idea of choosing just one is daunting! Some of us will decide that the best way to solve the mystery of our missing passion is to try out various new activities or jobs to see which one sticks. There’s an undercurrent of romance and excitement in the belief that one day you can try something completely new and have an epiphany: This is it! This is what I’m meant to do with my life! But Jonathan Acuff refutes this concept in his book Quitter. Acuff believes that finding your dream job “is more than a revelation or an act of discovery. I believe it’s a process of recovery. More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It’s usually a reunion.”  So in order to help you on your path to recovering your passion, I’ve developed an interactive series of questions called “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” to help you reflect on your innate interests, talents, and strengths. Then, in the next article in this series, you’ll learn how to determine if your passion will make a sustainable and fulfilling career. Ready to rescue your inner passion? Go to “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” now. 

Falling in Love with your Work Life: Take a Break and Eat Some Chocolate.

This month, The Levo League is focusing on you— specifically, we’re focusing on helping you to be able to take your work life from being A Job to being Your Life’s Work. Sometimes this journey involves huge steps, like realizing you need a new career. Sometimes, though, the journey takes small detours. 

Today’s small detour is chocolate.

That’s right— the tried and true trite truism of Valentine’s Day. Chocolate: the knee-jerk invisible best friend of women everywhere. It feels like a stereotype, and of course that’s because it has come to be one. But neuroscience dictates that chocolate in the lives of women— and, well, anyone who needs to relax— has a broader value-add. Get ready for something that’ll make you simultaneously giggle and think “Ohhhhh- Now it all makes sense.”

Chocolate contains trace amounts of anandamides. Anandamides are amazing. They bond with the same neurotransmitters that cannabis does. THC. Weed. Chocolate has chemicals that function in a semi-similar way to marijuana. The Journal of Neuroscience thinks so, and so do we. The difference is namely in the in vitro and in vivo effects: in other words, the difference is that marijuana stays in the bloodstream much longer and creates a longer-lasting high. 

Really adds dimension to those Dove commercials with blissed-out looking ladies. 
Feb 07
Falling in Love with your Work Life: Take a Break and Eat Some Chocolate. This month, The Levo League is focusing on you— specifically, we’re focusing on helping you to be able to take your work life from being A Job to being Your Life’s Work. Sometimes this journey involves huge steps, like realizing you need a new career. Sometimes, though, the journey takes small detours.  Today’s small detour is chocolate. That’s right— the tried and true trite truism of Valentine’s Day. Chocolate: the knee-jerk invisible best friend of women everywhere. It feels like a stereotype, and of course that’s because it has come to be one. But neuroscience dictates that chocolate in the lives of women— and, well, anyone who needs to relax— has a broader value-add. Get ready for something that’ll make you simultaneously giggle and think “Ohhhhh- Now it all makes sense.” Chocolate contains trace amounts of anandamides. Anandamides are amazing. They bond with the same neurotransmitters that cannabis does. THC. Weed. Chocolate has chemicals that function in a semi-similar way to marijuana. The Journal of Neuroscience thinks so, and so do we. The difference is namely in the in vitro and in vivo effects: in other words, the difference is that marijuana stays in the bloodstream much longer and creates a longer-lasting high.  Really adds dimension to those Dove commercials with blissed-out looking ladies. 

The Levo League

Posted on Wednesday February 8th 2012 at 12:48pm. Its tags are listed below.

Fall In Love with Your Work Life: Uncovering Your Passion and Finding Your Dream Career. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Since we’re all completely over being told to pair off in order to signal to the rest of the world that our lives are (somewhat) on track, we thought ‘Why don’t we just focus on actually getting our lives in order?’ In that vein, Kristen Walker helps the Levo League to take a close look at what we find important in our lives and careers. We’ve all been told that in order to love our job and achieve lasting career happiness and success, we simply have to follow our passion. Inspiring, right? While there is obviously plenty of truth to this cliché, the advice it provides is so vague that it can often feel almost totally useless. And if you’re anything like me, it can cause more anxiety than encouragement, especially if you don’t have a clue how to take that first step in following your passion. Or — and this can feel even scarier — what happens if you don’t even know what you’re passionate about to start with? What if you want to have a career that makes you feel fulfilled, but you just don’t know what that career is yet? Some of you may already have a clear idea of exactly what it is you want to do with your life. Maybe you’re already working in your field and embarking on the journey to your ideal career. Those of you who fall into this category — you are the lucky few! But if you’re like the majority of Gen Y-ers, you’re likely struggling to uncover what you’re truly passionate about, much less determine how to make it into a viable career. In her book 20 Something Manifesto, Christine Hassler compares finding your life direction to eating at the Cheesecake Factory. With 167 menu options to choose from, (not including beverages, sides, and, of course, cheesecake flavors), the Cheesecake Factory’s menu can induce mild panic, even to the most decisive of us. Hassler describes her reaction the first time she perused this menu: “How was I supposed to pick just one dish? What was the best thing? As everyone else around me ordered, I became even more anxious — should I get what someone else was having? Would it be better than what I thought I wanted?” You may feel this way when trying to uncover your passions or ideal career path. There are so many options available, the idea of choosing just one is daunting! Some of us will decide that the best way to solve the mystery of our missing passion is to try out various new activities or jobs to see which one sticks. There’s an undercurrent of romance and excitement in the belief that one day you can try something completely new and have an epiphany: This is it! This is what I’m meant to do with my life! But Jonathan Acuff refutes this concept in his book Quitter. Acuff believes that finding your dream job “is more than a revelation or an act of discovery. I believe it’s a process of recovery. More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It’s usually a reunion.”  So in order to help you on your path to recovering your passion, I’ve developed an interactive series of questions called “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” to help you reflect on your innate interests, talents, and strengths. Then, in the next article in this series, you’ll learn how to determine if your passion will make a sustainable and fulfilling career. Ready to rescue your inner passion? Go to “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” now. 
Fall In Love with Your Work Life: Uncovering Your Passion and Finding Your Dream Career. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Since we’re all completely over being told to pair off in order to signal to the rest of the world that our lives are (somewhat) on track, we thought ‘Why don’t we just focus on actually getting our lives in order?’ In that vein, Kristen Walker helps the Levo League to take a close look at what we find important in our lives and careers. We’ve all been told that in order to love our job and achieve lasting career happiness and success, we simply have to follow our passion. Inspiring, right? While there is obviously plenty of truth to this cliché, the advice it provides is so vague that it can often feel almost totally useless. And if you’re anything like me, it can cause more anxiety than encouragement, especially if you don’t have a clue how to take that first step in following your passion. Or — and this can feel even scarier — what happens if you don’t even know what you’re passionate about to start with? What if you want to have a career that makes you feel fulfilled, but you just don’t know what that career is yet? Some of you may already have a clear idea of exactly what it is you want to do with your life. Maybe you’re already working in your field and embarking on the journey to your ideal career. Those of you who fall into this category — you are the lucky few! But if you’re like the majority of Gen Y-ers, you’re likely struggling to uncover what you’re truly passionate about, much less determine how to make it into a viable career. In her book 20 Something Manifesto, Christine Hassler compares finding your life direction to eating at the Cheesecake Factory. With 167 menu options to choose from, (not including beverages, sides, and, of course, cheesecake flavors), the Cheesecake Factory’s menu can induce mild panic, even to the most decisive of us. Hassler describes her reaction the first time she perused this menu: “How was I supposed to pick just one dish? What was the best thing? As everyone else around me ordered, I became even more anxious — should I get what someone else was having? Would it be better than what I thought I wanted?” You may feel this way when trying to uncover your passions or ideal career path. There are so many options available, the idea of choosing just one is daunting! Some of us will decide that the best way to solve the mystery of our missing passion is to try out various new activities or jobs to see which one sticks. There’s an undercurrent of romance and excitement in the belief that one day you can try something completely new and have an epiphany: This is it! This is what I’m meant to do with my life! But Jonathan Acuff refutes this concept in his book Quitter. Acuff believes that finding your dream job “is more than a revelation or an act of discovery. I believe it’s a process of recovery. More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It’s usually a reunion.”  So in order to help you on your path to recovering your passion, I’ve developed an interactive series of questions called “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” to help you reflect on your innate interests, talents, and strengths. Then, in the next article in this series, you’ll learn how to determine if your passion will make a sustainable and fulfilling career. Ready to rescue your inner passion? Go to “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” now. 

Fall In Love with Your Work Life: Uncovering Your Passion and Finding Your Dream Career.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. Since we’re all completely over being told to pair off in order to signal to the rest of the world that our lives are (somewhat) on track, we thought ‘Why don’t we just focus on actually getting our lives in order?’ In that vein, Kristen Walker helps the Levo League to take a close look at what we find important in our lives and careers.

We’ve all been told that in order to love our job and achieve lasting career happiness and success, we simply have to follow our passion. Inspiring, right? While there is obviously plenty of truth to this cliché, the advice it provides is so vague that it can often feel almost totally useless. And if you’re anything like me, it can cause more anxiety than encouragement, especially if you don’t have a clue how to take that first step in following your passion. Or — and this can feel even scarier — what happens if you don’t even know what you’re passionate about to start with? What if you want to have a career that makes you feel fulfilled, but you just don’t know what that career is yet?

Some of you may already have a clear idea of exactly what it is you want to do with your life. Maybe you’re already working in your field and embarking on the journey to your ideal career. Those of you who fall into this category — you are the lucky few! But if you’re like the majority of Gen Y-ers, you’re likely struggling to uncover what you’re truly passionate about, much less determine how to make it into a viable career.

In her book 20 Something Manifesto, Christine Hassler compares finding your life direction to eating at the Cheesecake Factory. With 167 menu options to choose from, (not including beverages, sides, and, of course, cheesecake flavors), the Cheesecake Factory’s menu can induce mild panic, even to the most decisive of us. Hassler describes her reaction the first time she perused this menu: “How was I supposed to pick just one dish? What was the best thing? As everyone else around me ordered, I became even more anxious — should I get what someone else was having? Would it be better than what I thought I wanted?” You may feel this way when trying to uncover your passions or ideal career path. There are so many options available, the idea of choosing just one is daunting!

Some of us will decide that the best way to solve the mystery of our missing passion is to try out various new activities or jobs to see which one sticks. There’s an undercurrent of romance and excitement in the belief that one day you can try something completely new and have an epiphany: This is it! This is what I’m meant to do with my life! But Jonathan Acuff refutes this concept in his book Quitter.

Acuff believes that finding your dream job “is more than a revelation or an act of discovery. I believe it’s a process of recovery. More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It’s usually a reunion.” 

So in order to help you on your path to recovering your passion, I’ve developed an interactive series of questions called “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” to help you reflect on your innate interests, talents, and strengths. Then, in the next article in this series, you’ll learn how to determine if your passion will make a sustainable and fulfilling career.

Ready to rescue your inner passion? Go to “7 Steps to Uncover Your Passion and Dream Career” now. 

The Levo League

Posted on Tuesday February 7th 2012 at 12:56pm. Its tags are listed below.

Falling in Love with your Work Life: Take a Break and Eat Some Chocolate. This month, The Levo League is focusing on you— specifically, we’re focusing on helping you to be able to take your work life from being A Job to being Your Life’s Work. Sometimes this journey involves huge steps, like realizing you need a new career. Sometimes, though, the journey takes small detours.  Today’s small detour is chocolate. That’s right— the tried and true trite truism of Valentine’s Day. Chocolate: the knee-jerk invisible best friend of women everywhere. It feels like a stereotype, and of course that’s because it has come to be one. But neuroscience dictates that chocolate in the lives of women— and, well, anyone who needs to relax— has a broader value-add. Get ready for something that’ll make you simultaneously giggle and think “Ohhhhh- Now it all makes sense.” Chocolate contains trace amounts of anandamides. Anandamides are amazing. They bond with the same neurotransmitters that cannabis does. THC. Weed. Chocolate has chemicals that function in a semi-similar way to marijuana. The Journal of Neuroscience thinks so, and so do we. The difference is namely in the in vitro and in vivo effects: in other words, the difference is that marijuana stays in the bloodstream much longer and creates a longer-lasting high.  Really adds dimension to those Dove commercials with blissed-out looking ladies. 
Falling in Love with your Work Life: Take a Break and Eat Some Chocolate. This month, The Levo League is focusing on you— specifically, we’re focusing on helping you to be able to take your work life from being A Job to being Your Life’s Work. Sometimes this journey involves huge steps, like realizing you need a new career. Sometimes, though, the journey takes small detours.  Today’s small detour is chocolate. That’s right— the tried and true trite truism of Valentine’s Day. Chocolate: the knee-jerk invisible best friend of women everywhere. It feels like a stereotype, and of course that’s because it has come to be one. But neuroscience dictates that chocolate in the lives of women— and, well, anyone who needs to relax— has a broader value-add. Get ready for something that’ll make you simultaneously giggle and think “Ohhhhh- Now it all makes sense.” Chocolate contains trace amounts of anandamides. Anandamides are amazing. They bond with the same neurotransmitters that cannabis does. THC. Weed. Chocolate has chemicals that function in a semi-similar way to marijuana. The Journal of Neuroscience thinks so, and so do we. The difference is namely in the in vitro and in vivo effects: in other words, the difference is that marijuana stays in the bloodstream much longer and creates a longer-lasting high.  Really adds dimension to those Dove commercials with blissed-out looking ladies. 

Falling in Love with your Work Life: Take a Break and Eat Some Chocolate.

This month, The Levo League is focusing on you— specifically, we’re focusing on helping you to be able to take your work life from being A Job to being Your Life’s Work. Sometimes this journey involves huge steps, like realizing you need a new career. Sometimes, though, the journey takes small detours. 

Today’s small detour is chocolate.

That’s right— the tried and true trite truism of Valentine’s Day. Chocolate: the knee-jerk invisible best friend of women everywhere. It feels like a stereotype, and of course that’s because it has come to be one. But neuroscience dictates that chocolate in the lives of women— and, well, anyone who needs to relax— has a broader value-add. Get ready for something that’ll make you simultaneously giggle and think “Ohhhhh- Now it all makes sense.”

Chocolate contains trace amounts of anandamides. Anandamides are amazing. They bond with the same neurotransmitters that cannabis does. THC. Weed. Chocolate has chemicals that function in a semi-similar way to marijuana. The Journal of Neuroscience thinks so, and so do we. The difference is namely in the in vitro and in vivo effects: in other words, the difference is that marijuana stays in the bloodstream much longer and creates a longer-lasting high. 

Really adds dimension to those Dove commercials with blissed-out looking ladies. 

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