{"id":14222,"date":"2016-09-02T18:14:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keblog.demoapp.xyz\/?p=14222"},"modified":"2022-10-19T03:50:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:50:26","slug":"turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video","title":{"rendered":"Turning Things You Love Into Your Career (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14229\" src=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video.png\" alt=\"turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video\" width=\"1326\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video.png 1326w, https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video-1024x344.png 1024w, https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video-768x258.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1326px) 100vw, 1326px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I told you that somewhere in the world there is someone who makes a living as a\u00a0<em>corporate pastoral playwright,<\/em>\u00a0would you believe me? You should because for the last two decades that&#8217;s exactly what\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/steventomlinson.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Tomlinson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has been doing. He is a co-founder and master teacher at the Acton School of Business, an integrated MBA program that cultivates multi-faceted callings. What this means is that you don&#8217;t have to succumb to one\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/blog\/reasons-everyone-should-have-a-passion-project\">purpose or passion<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for the rest of your life. You can keep them all and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalibrr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make a living this way<\/a><\/strong>. Watch his TED talk from Traverse City and be inspired to make your next move.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_26 counter-hierarchy\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">TOPICS<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><label for=\"item\" aria-label=\"Table of Content\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video\/#Dont_discard\" title=\"&#8220;Don&#8217;t discard.&#8221;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t discard.&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video\/#The_more_gifts_you_have_the_bigger_the_challenge_is\" title=\"&#8220;The more gifts you have, the bigger the challenge is.&#8221;\">&#8220;The more gifts you have, the bigger the challenge is.&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video\/#Lead_with_what_you_love\" title=\"&#8220;Lead with what you love.&#8221;\">&#8220;Lead with what you love.&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dont_discard\"><\/span>&#8220;Don&#8217;t discard.&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>While most of us, Tomlinson included, think that the way to go is to choose one direction or passion for the majority of our lives, there are those who will urge us\u00a0<em>not<\/em> to choose just one. In this day and age, a person&#8217;s skills, talents, hobbies, interests, or gifts, are so widely dispersed that pursuing most, if not all, of them will cause us to spread ourselves too thin. However, the key is not in discarding passions of lesser interest but inter-weaving them little by little until you have a career that is made up of most (if you&#8217;re lucky, all) of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14231\" src=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video-.png\" alt=\"turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video\" width=\"1430\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video-.png 1430w, https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video--300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video--1024x584.png 1024w, https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/turning-things-you-love-into-your-career-video--768x438.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1430px) 100vw, 1430px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_more_gifts_you_have_the_bigger_the_challenge_is\"><\/span>&#8220;The more gifts you have, the bigger the challenge is.&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Naturally, the challenge with keeping all of your passions is juggling them at the same time. The more gifts you have, chances are they aren&#8217;t necessarily related or connected to each other so integrating them with one another will require you to be smart. You can&#8217;t expect your love of football and electronics engineering to magically come together and form robo-ball or some other love child. There is a lot of work involved in meshing and uncovering how your passions can work hand in hand as a career. And because your passions and what you love are probably unique to you, only you can figure this one out. Rest easy in the possibility of this. Tomlinson made\u00a0<em>corporate pastoral playwright\u00a0<\/em>happen.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"\/blog\/why-you-dont-have-a-one-true-calling\">WHY YOU DON&#8217;T HAVE ONE TRUE CALLING<\/a><\/h4>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lead_with_what_you_love\"><\/span>&#8220;Lead with what you love.&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Consciously choosing to pursue these passions will be difficult but because they are already things that you love or are good at, they will provide you with a natural and almost innate fuel to keep you going. Without expecting them to do the work for you (they never will), allow them to be your guiding lights. Let them interact with one another and see how their byproduct comes\u00a0into fruition and how you can make a career out of this. It&#8217;s a scary process, not knowing if any of this will pay off in the end. But think of what if it did&#8230; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GJ_P7col8c0<\/p>\n<h4><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalibrr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up on Kalibrr<\/a>\u00a0today and find the right job for you. You can also\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/i\/77238488FF110D6D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a><\/strong> to our weekly newsletter and get Kalibrr Career Advice straight from your inbox!<\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I told you that somewhere in the world there is someone who makes a living as a\u00a0corporate pastoral playwright,\u00a0would you believe me? You should because for the last two decades that&#8217;s exactly what\u00a0Steven Tomlinson\u00a0has been doing. 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