Just take a moment to consider what your life would be like if you woke up every day looking forward to going into work .

Doing a Job that you enjoyed, working with likeminded people, doing a job that interested you.

Can you imagine how good that would feel? How energized, productive and happy you would be?

How do you feel about your career at the moment?

Unfulfilled ?

" Do you feel like opportunity is passing you by?

" Do you go to work clock watching waiting to go home, hating most of your day, just looking forward to Friday and dreading Monday mornings.

" Do you feel you have job burnout?

" Always feeling tired

" Do you feel you are suffering from work stress?

" Are you restless and don't know why?

" Do you long for a meaningful Job?

The answer to this problem

1. Discover what you are designed to do.

2. Ensure that most of your work time is spent doing it.

How can this be done?

Firstly you must discover who you are, what motivates you, what your strengths are, what talents you have. .

How do you do this?

Take an on-line motivational assessment, you can get a free basic assessment which will almost certainly uncover things about you, that will come as a shock. This is a great way to start your self discovery.

These tests take about 30 - 45 minutes to complete, comprise multi-choice questions, and can be a lot of fun as well. Don't answer the questions how you think you should answer them, answer them truthfully / naturally.

Once signed up you can do the test in one sitting, or save your work, and come back to it when your boss leaves the office.

On finishing you get a detailed report , which you can print out, or keep on the system for future reference. Take your time and discover the things you should be doing, and the tasks you should avoid.

Re-read and absorb this information, as it is valuable for many reasons. When you read it through the second time, highlight your positive motivators and negatives motivators with different colors.

Forward thinking companies are reaping massive efficiencies by reorganizing team work to best suit individual's personalities. Team dynamics can be greatly improved through ensuring that team members are assigned tasks that suit them whenever possible.

Now you know what motives you, you need to do some work.

At this point you have some insightful and highly useful information which can be used in a number of different ways. But the objective of taking a motivational assessment is to get a fast and independent report on your career motivation.

You should NOT let the test alone make your decisions for you.

It's a great start point, and will hopefully be prompting some further ideas. The next step is over to you, dig deeper into what you like and dislike, and do some serious thinking.

Answer the following questions

1. At work why do you do certain things, and not do other things?

2. Do goals draw upon your most motivated talents?

3. You'll have motivations that are rarely used, what are they? You may have to think back to your childhood for clues.

4. Which of your objectives call upon your lesser talents?

5. What can you do about this?

6. How does your career fit your ideal style of relating to others?

7. Does your current career contain the circumstances that drive you?

8. What if there is a role in your place of work that's a better fit than your current one? If so, what do you need to do to prepare for it?

9. If you are feeling tired or burned out, what parts of your job are out of balance?

10. If you feel you are in the wrong company or profession, what can you do about it?

If you decide upon pastures new, you now have completed groundwork from which to build.