Identify your strengths and areas for improvement. Career assessments such as CareerFitTest.com can help you identify your transferable, personal, and content skills. This tool will also enable you to quickly determine your most marketable, developmental, and “killer” skills.

Killer skills are those abilities that you perform very well but hate using. You can feel the energy draining from you whenever you have to use them. They, therefore, “kill” your energy and enthusiasm for work (and life) and increase your stress level.

If you would like to complete other career assessments that are debriefed by a National Certified Career Counselor, you can learn more at ChristianCareerCenter.com.

Consider acquiring or enhancing new skills to stay relevant in your field. Attend workshops, take online courses, join professional organizations, participate in online communities, read industry publications, and take on challenging projects.

4. Evaluate Work-Life Balance

A healthy work-life balance is essential for overall well-being. Assess how much time and energy you dedicate to your job versus your personal life. If the balance is skewed, explore ways to create harmony, such as setting boundaries, prioritizing self-care, and allocating time for hobbies and relationships.

Living our callings in life leads to work-life balance.  While we all have a primary calling to salvation and following Jesus, we also have unique secondary callings, such as being a spouse, parent, family member, neighbor, and worker.

Keeping our primary calling primary is done through spiritual disciplines such as prayer, Bible reading, worship, fasting, etc.   These disciplines help us become more like Jesus and make better decisions about living our lives.

Since as much as 60 percent of our lives are spent working, choosing the right career is critical to meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in your work.  At the same time, guarding against becoming a workaholic is crucial, which can easily happen when you love your work.

Living your calling should lead to a work-life balance as you intentionally set aside time and energy for other secondary callings beyond work, such as being a parent, spouse, family member, neighbor, church volunteer, etc.  Writing mission statements and goals for important secondary callings will give you a game plan for designing a life of meaning and purpose.

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