You can change!

It’s easy to get stuck.

To just keep doing things the way we’ve always done them. 

To accept the narrative others have told us about what is or isn’t possible.

But does that actually help us be our best? No.

If there is something you want to change, you can do it.

It often starts with changing your attitude and mindset about your current situation and circumstances. That new perspective allows you to move from an approach of just submitting to what is to being empowered to take steps of progress.

You can change your career, relationships, and even your personality.

Jump in and see how!

In today’s newsletter:

• Changing your personality

• Finding fulfillment in your engineering career

• Hot jobs

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Engineers: You Can (and Should) Change Your Personality

Like many engineers, I have found myself easily getting locked into a technical identity of what I was due to my career choice. I was led there by aptitude and personality tests along the way.

I liked concrete answers. I liked to be right. I liked to problem solve. I liked things that were objective.

That's not all bad, but the identity I took on also avoided creativity, art, writing, and anything that seemed subjective. I avoided things that involved and evaluated me based on the opinions of others. 

I realize now more than ever that I have the opportunity to reframe those thoughts and experiences and choose who I want to become rather than be defined by my past experiences. I can actually change my personality and become a new type of person.

That concept is extremely powerful when you think about it.

Who you are tomorrow doesn't have to be who you are today. Your personality is not permanent!

So who do you want to be?

Check out the book recommendation for the best book on this subject too!

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The Sure Path to a More Fulfilling Engineering Career

Fulfillment. It almost seems like a buzzword in our modern world when we talk about jobs, careers, and life goals.

It makes sense—if you consider Maslow's hierarchy of needs, most people in first-world countries have the basic physiological and safety needs taken care of. At that point, they start looking for more in the higher areas of the hierarchy. Fulfillment may not have a specific spot in the pyramid, but it certainly sits in those top three spots.

Here is the simple lesson for today: The surest way to experience more fulfillment in your engineering career is to help other people.

Think about the people who have helped you over the course of your life and career. Don't you feel a greater sense of love and connection with them? Don't you have more respect for them and elevate them to a higher status? Don't you feel like they are on their way to living their best life? 

That's the amazing power of helping other people. By getting outside of ourselves and focusing on service to others in our lives and careers, our lives and careers are enhanced! 

Serving and helping others can completely shift our outlook about the environments, circumstances, and challenges we face. Rather than being resentful of others, service can change our relationships and help us see the truth about others.

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📚 BOOK RECOMMENDATION

Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story by Benjamin Hardy

In Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our “true selves” are to be discovered and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead. He offers practical, science-based advice for personal reinvention, including:

• Why personality tests such as Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are not only psychologically destructive but are no more scientific than horoscopes

• Why you should never be the “former” anything--because defining yourself by your past successes is just as damaging to growth as being haunted by past failures

• How to design your current identity based on your desired future self and make decisions here and now through your new identity

• How to reframe traumatic and painful experiences into a fresh narrative supporting your future success

• How to become confident enough to define your own life’s purpose

• How to create a network of “empathetic witnesses” who actively encourage you through the highs and lows of extreme growth

• How to enhance your subconscious to overcome addictions and limiting patterns

• How to redesign your environment to pull you toward your future, rather than keep you stuck in the past

• How to tap into what psychologists call “pull motivation” by narrowing your focus on a single, definable, and compelling outcome 

The book includes true stories of intentional self-transformation—such as Vanessa O’Brien, who quit her corporate job and set the Guinness World Record for a woman climbing the highest peak on every continent in the fastest time; Andre Norman, who became a Harvard fellow after serving a fourteen-year prison sentence; Ken Arlen, who instantly quit smoking by changing his identity narrative; and Hardy himself, who transcended his childhood in a broken home, surrounded by issues of addiction and mental illness, to earn his PhD and build a happy family.

Filled with strategies for reframing your past and designing your future, Personality Isn’t Permanent is a guide to breaking free from the past and becoming the person you want to be.