Purpose of the blog: Online Presence

In 2011, the Learning Centre at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand, will provide extra online learning support to both distance and on-site students. We want to utilize the Internet more, and be available over a greater range of hours. The student-dedicated blog to accompany this is USE IT OR LOSE IT!

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people" - William Butler Yeats



Monday, 28 February 2011

Massaging yourself into the area of intersection


Re-reading the 30-Day Facebook Fast article by Steve Pavlina that I referred to the other day, I discovered a piece of advice that made me smile. I'll repeat it here.

Steve's advice:
To get the career part of your life going well, you basically have to figure out 4 things:

(1) what you can do to earn a good income,
(2) what skills and talents you can develop to a high degree,
(3) what you enjoy doing,
(4) what you can contribute.

It takes some effort to figure these out. Then it takes more effort to massage yourself into the area of intersection (emphasis mine), such that you can earn a good income by doing what you love and what you're good at, and thereby make a meaningful contribution too.

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