OUR VOCATIONAL CHOICES ARE AN EXPRESSION of our personality, at work and in school. From one’s experiences one learns to prefer some activities. These preferences are turned into interest. Then the interest is translated into a special group of competencies. Finally, a person’s interests and competencies create a disposition that leads him or her to think and act in a certain manner.

Your personality trait is a product of the interaction between heredity and several environmental factors (parents, comrades, social class, culture and physical environment). BEYONDISM urges you to search for environments that let you exercise your skills and abilities, express your attitudes and values and take on agreeable problems and roles. Moreover, your behaviour can be explained in terms of the interaction between your personality and the environment you are in.

Satisfactory behaviour at the place of work will depend on the degree of congruence between your personality and the work environment. Congruence is the compatibility between your personality and the environment. The highest level occurs when one is in an environment exactly like one’s personality.

SEVEN therapeautic tonics to loftily LOCATE your LIFE’s BASIC BEARING:

1. BASK in glory, that you are one of a kind. Your combination of skills and experience is not replicable. That represents true freedom and the ultimate power we humans can possess.
2. ESSENTIALLY, keep in mind that your contribution to the culture can come in many forms. You do not have to become an entrepreneur or figure largely on the world’s stage.
3. A strong point of view that is your OWN is what you MUST retain, even if you are well operating as one person in a group or organisation. Use this to gently exert your influence.
4. READILY, your path can involve physical labour; taking pride in the excellence of the work, leaving your particular stamp on the quality. Or raising a family in the best way possible.
5. INCLINATION and being tied to a personal need is what matters in a calling. None is superior to another. Your energy moves you toward improvement and continual learning from experience.
6. NIBBLING any resistance in the bud, you will continually cultivate your uniqueness and originality. In a world full of people who seem largely interchangeable, you cannot be replaced.
7. GET friends and become infected with the enthusiasm of a few people who have a relatively high sense of purpose. This could be someone young or old who seems destined for greatness.

Vocational Identity, or rather the adoption of a consistent ideal of one’s self in the vocational world, is critical to job satisfaction, and has been demonstrated to be highly correlated. An individual with vocational identity has a clear sense of what his or her skills are, what reasonable career goals might be, as well as occupations that might be compatible. This sort of self-awareness coupled with knowledge of resources makes it likely that one would find work that is a good fit, or congruent with his or her needs.

Here is BEYONDISM FORMIDABLE FORMULA for SELF-ACTUALIZATION
(The ‘head’ and ‘tail’ of Activating your SELFHOOD) in regard to:
Forging the raw material of your TALENT in the fine tool of your profession.

1. FINDING your career; you will set yourself at a certain work and the work absorbs and becomes you.
   Core Choice #46: It will be the ennobling expression of your essential personality.
   Sure Score #46: You will live in its growth and perfection according to your plans.
2. ONE of the best careers advice: “Find out what you like doing best; get someone to pay you for doing it.”
   Solid Stance #46: The earning of money within the modern economic order should be spiritually enriching.
   Catalysing Consideration #46: It should be the result and the expression of virtue and potency in a calling.
3. RADICAL difference between a career choice of the head, and that of the heart: It is a second choice.
   Mighty Mission #46: It lacks the vocational flavour, the romance, the born instinct and the natural ability.
   Vivid Vision #46: A person’s authentic work, whether in arts or in science, is always a portrait of oneself.
4. MOTIVATION to a nourishing work starts early. Ask children what they want to be when they grow up.
   Gaining Ground #46: They do not say: “I want a boring job where the only thing I look forward to is Friday.”
   Capturing Clouds #46: They never say: “I would like to be in a work which makes me so tired and unhappy.”
5. USUALLY, it is better to perish than continue sweating your guts out so that others can remain superior.
   Lofty Leap #46: The highest monetary offer only makes sense in the context of an overall career plan.
   Merry Momentum #46: ‘Devoted, obedient,’ is a definition you must be wary of; may be a lure to slavery.
6. LOATH present economy: It is a description of the career of money as it preys upon nature and society.
   Holy Hearken #46: It does not account for affection, which is to say that it does not account for any value.
   Divine Distinction #46: It is like a man who knows 100 ways of making love but does not know any women.
7. AT least you know what you want in LIFE: A career as fixed and as calmly brilliant as the North Star.
   Prudent Planting #46: Choose a career you love, and you will never have to work a day in your LIFE.
   Hoped Harvest #46: The human potential is infinite though some people sometimes act as if it was not.

#46. In as much as I initiate the process of being a MASTER,
Which is the most vital VOCATIONAL mode of operation?

MASTERY of any field of knowledge is not a function of genius or talent.
It is a function of time and intense focus applied to that particular field.
Always endeavour to see your career as a journey with twists and turns.
The road to mastery requires patience, so seek to focus on the long-term.
You will have to keep your focus on five or ten years down the road.
It is with good perspiration that you will reap the rewards of your efforts.
Learn from and be inspired by existing Masters through apprenticeships.

#46. I, ___________________________, catalysing my career inclination, towards the highest level of MASTERY, do DECISIVELY DECLARE that, after my formal education, I will enter the most critical phase of my LIFE – a second, practical education known as The Apprenticeship. Before it is too late, I will have to learn the lessons and follow the path established by the greatest Masters, past and present – a kind of Ideal Apprenticeship that transcends all fields. In the process I will master the necessary skills, discipline my mind, and transform myself into an independent thinker, prepared for the creative challenges on way to MASTERY. I understand that, LIFE is short, and my time for learning and creativity is limited. Without any guidance, I can waste valuable years trying to gain knowledge and practice from various sources. Instead, I must follow the example set by Masters throughout the ages and find the proper mentor. I will choose who best suits my need and connects to my Life’s Task. Once I have internalised their knowledge, I will have to move on and never remain in their shadow. My goal will always be to surpass my mentors in MASTERY and brilliance.

In this reference, as a BLESSED BEYONDIST, I hereby, make an ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION that, the task which I will choose to work on will have an obsessive element. It will connect to something deep within me. I will adopt such a spirit and see my apprenticeship as a kind of journey in which I will transform myself, rather than as a drab indoctrination into the work. I understand that, the initial stages of learning a skill will invariably involve tedium. Yet, rather than avoiding this inevitable tedium, I will have to accept and embrace it. I realise that, the goal of an apprenticeship will not be money, a good position, a title, a degree or a diploma, but rather the transformation of my mind and character. I will know when my apprenticeship will be over by the feeling that I will have nothing left to learn in that environment. It will be the time to declare my independence or move to another place, to continue my apprenticeship and expand my skill. I acknowledge that, there are 3 steps to the apprenticeship. Step 1, entails deep observation; noticing everything, especially the details. Step 2, implies skills acquisition; learning to do what I do extremely well. Step 3, means experimentation; learning to make those skills my own, and going BEYOND them. As I will continue accumulating more skills and internalise the rules that will govern my field, my mind will want to become more active, seeking to use this knowledge in ways that are more suited to my inclinations. Instead of feeling complacent about what I will have known, I will expand my knowledge to related fields, giving my mind fuel to make new associations between different ideas. In the end, I will turn against the very rules I will have internalised, shaping and reforming them to suit my spirit. Such ORIGINALITY will bring me to the heights of POWER.