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Advancing Your Career There's more to getting a job than posting a resume online.

Step 1... Find Your Passion

Of course there are the basics that must be covered when looking for a job or changing careers. Resources can be found for writing resumes, posting on job boards, creating career profiles, joining business social networks and much more by following the Career link in the navigation on the left or going to Patience and Purpose. (Which is a great site!)

However, the process of advancing our careers must also include taking a close look at evaluating our attitude, aptitude, presentation, communication skills and life goals. We often become so wraped up in the day to day routine of work + work = survival that we miss out on living quality life.

For the majority, work is just a requirement of life. For those who find their passion and transform it into a career, they find peace, enjoyment, self worth and a profound satisfaction in doing something for others. Financial rewards generally follow these attributes yet the real wealth is found in the balance of the quality of life.

The first step is finding our passion. This would seem to be the easiest step, however it can be the toughest challenge for many people and if not found, the most limiting to finding quality of life. Discovering our passon is not just knowing what we like or what we enjoy or what we find fun. It is determining and living the actions that drives and motivates us through-out the day and also provides something of quality for others.

It may seem trite and simple but when we set in motion and offer the best of ourselves through living and working our passion, we attract wealth in many forms.

Step 1... find your passion. ...Jerome Gray

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Personal Advancement Articles by Contributing Authors

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Finding Your Own Way in Life
By John Vespasian - Contributing Author

The perception that achievement should be either immediate or impossible is wrong. Important things frequently demand substantial time, as it is the case of relationships. It makes no sense to put pressure on the wrong places. Some things take as long as they take. The process of reaching our goals is to be enjoyed, not frivolously discarded as a waste of time.

As they say in my home village, "you'd better bake potatoes slowly if you don't want to burn them." Substantial skills, like learning a foreign language, require months or years of effort. In life, you have plenty of time to find your own way. If you think that this is not the case, check your priorities and simplify your activities.

"Some talents are innate and others are acquired through practice," wrote Aristotle in the year 328 B.C. "While the movement of animals is governed by the law of cause and effect, the essential characteristic of human beings, reason, can only be developed by choice."

Centuries of decay followed the fall of the Roman Empire. For generations, fear replaced rational discourse as the primary means of human interaction. In many fields, knowledge remained inaccessible to the great majority of the population. As a result, life expectancy dramatically decreased.

Conditions improved in the 13th century. The transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance opened a wide range of opportunities for talented individuals. Towns attracted tradesmen and merchants, who manufactured utensils, made clothes, and built houses.

In Italian cities, like Florence and Venice, the wealth created by entrepreneurs brought into existence a market for artists. Upward social mobility became possible to an important segment of the population in the time of the great Renaissance artists, such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. ... continue to the full article