Authentic Needs and Work Mp3

The speaker discusses a new model for making career and work choices. They suggest moving away from traditional thinking and instead focusing on one's authentic self and what gives them energy and purpose. They emphasize the importance of identifying core emotional needs and creatively exploring options. They encourage taking risks, reassessing regularly, and aligning one's life with their authentic needs. They mention a successful example of someone who designed a business based on their authenticity. The speaker believes they have identified their own authentic needs and plans to follow this process. I wanted to just talk a little bit about this model for making career choices and work choices and how I use my productive time. And it moves away from my previous thinking where you're so constrained in so many ways. You're firstly looking at what job am I going to get, so you're locking yourself into being an employee. You're also looking at just, I can only do one thing, so you're locking yourself into not having multiple streams of income. But worst of all, thinking about it in terms of what's the title of my job and what area am I going to get into and what's the niche, whereas really it's about, if it's about growing into our authentic self, it's really about saying, who am I? What gives me energy? What gives me purpose in a work context? And I've really identified those things. I know what my core sort of emotional authentic needs are. And that really should be the guide for where I invest my time. So it's a matter of saying, well, looking really creatively at all the options out there and saying, well, how can I put something together that's going to, that's real, that's going to drive me towards my authenticity? So I don't know what the answer's going to be because I'm going to explore that but it could be a combination of maybe primarily doing some M&A work and maybe doing a property development on the side and then joining into a partnership with somebody to start up a small business focusing on just the niche thing and the offshore part of the work. Doesn't matter. But that's how to look at it. Firstly, number one, identify the core emotional needs. Number two, creatively look at what the options are around. And creative because it's not obvious. And then it's sort of living life and testing them and sort of engaging in things and jumping into them and taking risks. And then reassessing. Look at it again a year down the track, what's working, what's not. And then if I keep following this process, being truly authentic, I know who I am now. I've got 11 years of accumulated emotional experiences. I know what drives me and gives me purpose in a work environment. Don't necessarily know the job title. I want one with a specific area that's going to be my niche, but I know my authentic needs. Then look at creative ways of meeting them. How can I design a life that sort of aligns with that? And then it's the practical, go and do it. Actually once you've got the plan, write it down and then execute. And then reassess every six months, every year. And if I keep following that process, being honest about my true authentic needs, creatively looking at the options, deciding on a plan, and then executing. And then reassessing. And then eventually you're going to hit onto something that really works. It's a life-long process. People look at Rick and he's got this multi-income stream business and it's just inspiring on so many levels. It's inspiring that he came to it at such a late age, so he never stopped growing and being an entrepreneur. He's 69, I think he must have said, about 10 years ago, so he was 59 or in his late 50s. And he's designed something that's true to his authenticity, that leverages off his abilities and what drives him, his authentic needs, and he's got a great business. He's got a real niche, both in terms of the location and the property itself and the services he offers. He's got intellectual property, he's got multiple revenue streams, he's got accommodation, he's a property developer, he's got intellectual property, he's got a retail outlet, but it all grew out of his authenticity, it all came from, who am I, what areas can I push into? So I think I've identified my true authentic needs and I think this is the process, they're the starting point, let's brainstorm some creative solutions, decide on a plan and then execute and then reassess and repeat that process.