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Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

Career Expert Ken Coleman: Find a Job of Purpose (ep. 400)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

Education, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

According to a recent Monster.com survey, 95% of workers are thinking about quitting their jobs. Coined as "the Great Resignation", millions of Americans are searching for more happiness, fulfillment and flexibility after facing burnout and lack of growth opportunities.

Ken Coleman, bestselling author of From Paycheck to Purpose and career expert, shares how to discover meaningful work and practical steps to make it a reality.

If you or someone you know is looking to go from a day job to a dream job, this episode is for you.

SHOW NOTES:

  • Get clear with what you were born to do by aligning your talent, passion and mission.
  • Develop a purpose statement. It provides clarity, confidence and courage to be what you were meant to be. 
  • "When we find opportunities to serve others, we are making investments with no idea of the return. Look for opportunities to pour into the lives of others."
  • Seven stages to discovering and doing work that gives you both a great income and big impact:
    1. Get clear 
    2. Get qualified 
    3. Get connected
    4. Get started 
    5. Get promoted 
    6. Get your dream job
    7. Give yourself away to work like no one else
  • Get a copy of Ken Coleman's From Paycheck to Purpose here and The Proximity Principle here.

KEN COLEMAN'S LIVE INSPIRED 7

  1. Q. What is the best book you've ever read?
    A. Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty by Harvey Mackay.
  2. Q. What is a characteristic or trait that you possessed as a child that you wish you still exhibited today?
    A. Curiosity.
  3. Q. Your house is on fire, all living things and people are out. You have the opportunity to run in and grab one item. What would it be?
    A. My childhood Bible or the portrait of my wife from our wedding day.
  4. Q. You are sitting on a bench overlooking a gorgeous beach. You have the opportunity to have a long conversation with anyone living or dead. Who would it be?
    A. Theodore Roosevelt.
  5. Q. What is the best advice you've ever received?
    A. Be patient. Learn the value and discipline of patience.
  6. Q. What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?
    A. Be patient.
  7. Q. It's been said that all great people can have their lives summed up in one sentence. How do you want yours to read?
    A. He served his God. He served his family. He served his fellow man with everything he had.

Transcript

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0:00.0

My hometown of St. Louis is an awesome baseball town. For those of you who know my story, you know that story. You know the impact of the St. Louis Cardinals and Jack Buck and baseball on my life. You also know it's a phenomenal hockey town. And for those who have read the book on fire or know the impact of the St. Louis Blues, not only in this community,

0:22.1

but also on a little boy named John O'Leary, you know that it's a hockey town as well.

0:26.3

What you may not know is the town keeps expanding.

0:29.7

We are now, drum roll please, a soccer town as well.

0:35.7

That's right.

0:36.1

We've been a soccer town for a while,

0:37.5

but now it's official with MLS moving to St. Louis.

0:40.8

And our friends at Keeley companies are proud construction partners

0:45.1

in building the new stadium downtown St. Louis,

0:48.2

focusing on applying their extensive building experience,

0:51.8

their commitment to developing,

0:53.4

and then implementing a successful

0:55.2

workforce development with diversity inclusion. Keeley Company's CEO and my friend Rusty Keeley said

1:01.6

this. We are honored to be part of the project of creating a positive legacy in St. Louis.

1:07.9

Learn more about that project and other projects going on at Keely Companies by

1:12.0

visiting them right now online at keelie Companies.com. Welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with

1:22.0

John O'Leary. John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire.

1:31.9

He's a world-class inspirational speaker, and he's the host of the Live-inspired podcast.

1:41.9

John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more fully live your life story.

1:44.5

Here's your host, John O'Leary.

1:50.7

Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary.

1:56.6

Today, we bring you content that whether you are in high school getting ready to decide what your next step might be, or you're new into the labor force, or you're midway through your

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