Does your career light you up?

Do you feel a spark of a connection to it when you describe it to someone else or when you wake up and start work each day?

We normally just think of this as “I like my job” or “I don’t like my job,” but, really, there is much more at play here. There is, at the core, a deeper yearning for more, or a deep satisfaction for what you already have. 

Jonathan Fields, who wrote the book, Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive, talks about a really cool way of looking, not just at your gifts and talents, but at how the work you’re doing actually aligns with your soul. I really liked how it was explained in this Success Magazine article. In it, Fields recognizes that we all don’t have the luxury of just going after work that only sparks joy, but he offers great ways to figure out how to get there. Even if just a little bit at a time, in your free time, he advocates for really paying attention to how you feel lifted up or dragged down by the thing you spend most of your life doing. Our work consumes so much of our days, so much of our energy and so much of our spirit, that it’s really worth assessing how it’s impacting our hearts, not just our wallets.

I took the Sparketype assessment to see what kind of work I was meant to be doing, and figure out if it aligned with the work I am actually doing, and, guess what, it does! My Sparketype is The Advisor. Check out the description below, taken right from the assessment. Talk about doing work that lights me up. I am doing EXACTLY that! I knew it, but I never had it put in this way before, and it’s really so validating. 

“As an Advisor, coaching, mentoring and advising is your call. You light up like nothing else when you play the role of the trusted advisor. The person who swoops in, develops sustained, personal, relationships, most often with individuals or small groups, cultivates trust and confidence and creates the safety needed to coach or guide people, in a hands-on, engaging way toward a desired end.”

How about you? What’s your Sparketype? Is it in alignment with what you’re doing right now?

Take the test for yourself if you want to know more!