Let’s start the month of May by looking at your typical career outlook by the stages:

• Stage One―“It’s safe and provides me with feelings of security.”
• Stage Two―“It’s an easy way to find lots of opportunities to feel powerful by manipulating and bullying others as well as (perhaps) to make easy money.”
• Stage Three―“It is the type of work my family/ ‘tribe’ does (or always did) or values most.”
• Stage Four―“It gives me prestige and/or a steady stream of good people contact.” In addition, “It pleases the people in my life whose approval I value most.”
• Stage Five―“It’s lucrative (or pays the bills) and/ or gives me something to do and/or nice contacts and perks.”
• Stage Six―“I love what I do … It’s what comes easiest to me, feels most flowing and natural … I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else … I feel fulfilled irrespective of the financial and other extrinsic rewards I get … I get pleasure from the challenge of it … If I never again had to work, I would still choose to be doing this.”
• Stage Seven―“It’s an excellent way (or the best way I can) to make the contribution I want to make the most.”