EPISODE 26
Paul Chek: Evolve Your Career
What is your dream career? How do you get there from where you are now? How do you live a fulfilling life if you don’t know what your life’s dream is?
In this final episode in his Evolve series of podcasts, Paul answers all of these questions and offers a number of practical techniques to set you on the path to building a career that is meaningful, sustainable and financially viable.
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SHOW NOTES
- Your vocation is a calling of the heart. (12:37)
- “A business is a viable financial entity that makes money without you. Anything else is a job.” (14:07)
- A career is a job with a fancier title. (16:48)
- A legacy is what you create each day of your life. (17:40)
- Your legacy is a gift bringing lots of challenges that become labors of love. (23:20)
- It can take 35-50 years of living to find your legacy. (27:58)
- “Your dreams are a snapshot of your future.” (29:39)
- The impossibility wall concept. (37:07)
- Paul’s early work as a tree faller. (46:47)
- Paul’s lack of a college degree didn’t stop him from following his dreams and being successful (56:16)
- Overcoming “ant infections.” (1:02:33)
- Following your dream may mean doing jobs you don’t like. (1:10:02)
- Many people are more fearful of success than failure. (1:13:39)
- Our programmed beliefs limit our freedom more than anything else. (1:23:26)
- Myths help us understand our place in nature, our tribes and the universe. (1:30:18)
- Lethargy can be as powerful as fear. (1:34:07)
- Is being fit and healthy abnormal? (1:36:35)
- Study the lives of people you want to emulate. (1:43:13)
- “You can only take with you what you become in this lifetime.” (1:52:28)
- Prioritize your goals in three areas. (1:53:40)
- The 10 components of creating a legacy and living your dream. (1:59:55)
- Paul didn’t discover his dream until he started working as a trainer of the U.S. Army Boxing team. (2:01:29)
- What would you really do if you had no limitations? (2:06:18)
- If you want to be a millionaire, how much responsibility are you willing to handle? (2:21:07)
- Create a mind map of these 10 components to build your legacy. (2:25:35)
- Align your interests wisely. (2:28:54)
- Only 2 percent of people discover their legacy. (2:31:51)
- “Religion can either be very supportive to your dream or it can be very antagonistic.” (2:35:29)
- Understanding your dream helps you in job interviews. (2:43:41)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design by Laurence Boldt
- Job vs. Career vs. Vocation from Shmoop.com
- What Color is Your Parachute? 2019 by Richard Bolles
- The Luck Factor by Brian Tracy
- Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenic fields concept
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza
- Tracking The Gods by James Hollis
- The work of Walter Russell
- The Center for Nonviolent Communication
- Nonviolent Communication by Waylon Myers
- The work of Meera Censor
- Humanitarians for Justice, Nonviolence and Peace by Meera Censor
- Genius the TV series
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