I ran across writer/blogger/entrepeneur Penelope Trunk on Twitter (@penelopetrunk (I’m @Twyler)) and then found her blog and I must say, she is an excellent writer. What first impressed me were her tweets, which are almost poetic and aren’t at all like the all-too-common awkwardly short ‘haircut’ or ‘i just ate this’ tweets. She also created Brazen Careerist which is ‘a social network to help young people manage their careers’. What are you saying? That I’m young and I need to manage my career in a social networking environment? Well I suppose you’re right, I’ll check it out.
Anyway, her blog post ‘Five tips for asking better questions’ got me thinking about some things, so I thought I’d share with you, the whole world.
“When you’re lost, look for questions, not answers”
Do you know what you really want out of life? Do you know what exact qualities you must have in a person who you’re in a relationship with? Do you know the things you absolutely could never have in your life if you’re going to be anywhere near happy? If you ask yourself these questions and really spend some time thinking about your goals and beliefs and values, then you’ll know what you must have in order to create a fulfilling, happy life.
Ask yourself about your job… Is there anything else you’d rather be doing? What realistically stand in the way of making that happen? What kind of environment do you need to really do your best work?
These are the kinds of questions I’ve been dealing with myself. I’m currently looking for a job and I’d be great at pretty much anything I choose to do, but I know for the most part what I would absolutely love to do, what I would tolerate (in the meantime), and what I would absolutely not do. It’s rough out there, but if you’re constantly unhappy then you should make it better, do something about it. Another good career question to ask yourself: what kind of person would you want to work for, ideally? My answer: someone eerily like myself. Ok, so I’ll start my own business and do everything exactly how I want. Awesome.
Good questions can really move you along if you’re trying to achieve something or change something. So, why do I blog? I have no idea. I need to write, I need to be creative, blogging makes me hip, I’m always right and people need to know that… there are a lot of reasons, but I mainly do it for the money. Big fat wads of cheddar. I’m not sure when the checks are supposed to start coming in, but surely it will be soon.
