Summary: How do you measure your life? And how can you be sure you'll find happiness in your career? The definition of a career (as a job for life) has well and truly changed over the last decade or so. Sometimes 7 years on one track can feel like a lifetime! We are now faced with an abundance of choice for the directions we can take. And for a while now we've started realising (and research has proven) that financial or positional success in our careers doesn't necessarily makes us happy. As we evolve, what we want and what makes us happy in our career can change too. How to measure your life & find happiness in your career? To understand happiness, we first need to understand what makes us tick as individuals. What motivates us? In this podcast Chris & Sam discuss the fundamental motivators in our work - including those 'baseline' factors that are necessary and those that really enhance our motivation and sense of fulfillment in our careers - and then outline some poignant questions you can ask yourself as you take a moment to reflect on where you are at and how you can measure the happiness you find in your current role. Whether you're considering taking a leap of faith into a new role, company or career, or whether you're only just starting to evaluate how happy you currently are - Clayton Christensen's book - [amazon ASIN="0007449151"]How Will You Measure Your Life?[/amazon] - will help inspire you to ask some of the questions that really matter, and find meaningful clarity in your life and career. How do you measure your life? Have you found happiness in your career? We'd love to hear how these questions have inspired you, or whether you have different ways of evaluating your happiness in your life and work.
