Using your DATA to find right livelihood (Part One)

A while back, William Bridges created a model to help people, in or out of
work, find the right work for themselves. Called the DATA model, it works
like this.
D-stands for desire. Unless you have a true or burning desire for something,
work or anything else, you'll not make the commitment or the consistency of
effort to do whatever it takes to find it. If you have a job you don't love
or you've lost a job you didn't love, but seek to find another just like it;
where will you get the motive for action? If you say you want to eat,
eating will only become a motive for action when you are hungary. Between
now and the time you're hungray, you need something powerful to keep you
constantly making contact with people with whom you build relationships that
lead to opportunities that reveal sources of work.

You can develop a burning desire by creating a vision of the perfect place
or work, that becomes so real within you, that in time it will manifest in
the world. Achiving such a goal becomes a life force when you nurture and
reinforce you ideal to the point that as William Glasser says, you will
become "positively addicted" to achieving it. To become positively addicted
to your goal, spend at least twenty minutes daily, or ten minutes twice a
day, in a meditative state in which you feel secure and relaxed until your
ideal becomes so real in your mind that you can touch the furniture in the
room or smell the auromas of the area.

More on the DATA model later.

Good Day and Good Work,

Norman
Norman J. York, President
York Career Development, Inc.
3307 Northland Drive, Suite 280
Austin, TX 78731
Austin: 512-502-8258
Houston: 866-502-8258
Cell: 512-656-8239
Web site: www.yorkinc.com

"Your vision will become clear only
when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams
Who looks inside, awakens"
Carl Jung

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