Decode Your Dream Career

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Decode Your Dream Career is a book that explores the various factors that generally govern the career selection trend in India while also explain- ing why the current method of career selection is less beneficial to individuals. The book then goes on to reveal why it is important to choose a career along the lines of their ikigai and also details how an individual can find a career that helps them realise their ikigai.

Manju S M is a Life Coach, Genetic Brain Profiling Counsellor and an author. She founded her brand, Finestra with a mission to transform over a million lives and has been helping people identify their true potentials and capitalise on them for over a year. She is also a certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and a certified expert in Neuroscience for Personal Development and Neuroscience for Parenting. She has been blogging for over a year at www.mymindvoice.com where she posts about parenting and personal well- being and also her poems and short stories. She is also a published author of 'Love Uncontrolled,' a collection of fifty romantic poems.

Every human being is unique, awesome and different. While other pecies just obey their nature and go through their life without trying to modify the life that is available to them, human beings have the power to create new things to progress in life. Human beings are blessed with infinite brainpower to make use of consciously, for the betterment of this planet. The longevity of a man is determined by the way his brain is balanced and progress is made. The major portion of our life is consumed in learning and sometimes it extends till our last thought, though every calorie spent in doing the task, both physical or mental, is to engage the energy consumed by the brain based on our inborn preferences. By knowing the inborn preferences, we can understand the channels through which the energy will be executed by default. Whenever it is necessary one can enhance how the energy is consumed and executed. So, though there are default pathways that are available genetically, human beings also can create new channels, when consciously worked upon.

"A job is not just an income, it is dignity, hope, purpose," said Leila Janah who was the Founder and CEO of Sama and LXMI. True, jobs are not just a source of income. They help us earn dignity because the relationship between work and our dignity is established at the core of progressive values. Jobs bring with them hope of better days because they are the means to achieve a better economic status and societal respect. They give our lives a purpose by providing a means to channelize our thoughts and energy constructively. No wonder why then jobs define us. If jobs were just about earning money, I am sure we wouldn't have attached as much importance to it as we have today. However, they aren't and that's where the importance of a career is felt.

Career and jobs are synonymous with each other. However, a career, as compared to jobs, is a long-term pursuit that usually requires formal educational training or experience and where earning money is not the primary goal. That's why dreams and ambitions play a huge role in the choice of career. In contrast, when it comes to jobs, dreams and ambitions do not have much of a say in the making of choice of jobs. That's where, I feel, Terry Mante's words "A career is not just about earning income. It's about pursuing the essence of your life," make a huge mark. Indeed, a career is all about pursuing the essence of our life.

Like Tom Freston had said, "A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usually a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost like a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you." Indeed, a vast majority of us have been through these ups-and- downs and hits-and-missteps to find that 'clumsy balance' that he talks of. Today as a Life Coach and a Genetic Brain Counsellor, I understand that one of the major reasons for those missteps is that people are not always well informed of how the career choices are to be made.