The Five: Ways to connect your career with your purpose
K.Shelette Stewart, associate director of business development at SMU’s Cox School of Business Executive Education, talks about ways to connect your career with your purpose. This from her new book, "Revelations in Business: Connecting Your Business Plan With God's Purpose and Plan for Your Life."
By Hanah Cho
A local expert provides five recommendations on a topic useful to small business owners. This week, Dallas business consultant and speaker K. Shelette Stewart talked to staff writer Hanah Cho about five ways to connect your profession with your purpose.
Start from within
We spend too much time at work not to enjoy it. Pray, contemplate or meditate about your purpose as an individual. Ask yourself: What is my passion? What is my spiritual calling? The world tells us to look externally to the marketplace and find a growing market niche and pursue it. But this approach doesn’t always work for maximizing your personal fulfillment and professional success.
Recognize the clues
What are skills that come quite naturally to you, but that others find difficult or daunting? These are your gifts. Your innate talents, natural skill sets, interests and hobbies are often clues to your calling and purpose. Pay attention to them....