Category: intention Setting

Hello, I’m Allison Field, and I want to welcome you to my Create Your BLANK vlog. Today, I want to talk about the four keys to creating a career that you love. I love these so much because I first learned about them in my very first college class that I took at the University of Minnesota.

It was a career planning class where we did all these assessments and determined, based on the assessments what careers would be best for us. So, you don’t need to go to a career planning class—but what you can do is go to MyPlan.com. For a very small fee, you can take those assessments.

The four key areas are:

• Personality
• Values
• Skills
• Interests

You take the individual tests, and it will give you a composite score and a list of potential careers that might be good for you based on your scores and results. I encourage everybody to do that because it’s very enlightening. Some things might align for you, some might not—but what’s cool is there’s a reason the assessments collectively show you this list. It’s a good place to start.

1. Personality

When you take your personality assessment—let’s say your personality is very outgoing and you like being around people and interacting. But your skillset says you’re good at science. You might get a result like: “You’d be great working in a lab.” Well, your personality would not enjoy working in a lab! That’s why it’s crucial to consider all four areas.

Sometimes you can fake it—you can fake liking something and still do well. But something will feel off. Eventually, it catches up with you. So if you’re not considering your personality in your career choice, it’s worth a pause.

A question I often get is: How can introverts and extroverts find career paths that energize them rather than drain them? That’s a big one. MyPlan results give specific careers based on personality types. Introverts might love lab work. Extroverts—not so much. Again, personality is only one part of the picture, but it gives great insight.

And if you’ve heard of Myers-Briggs—it’s part of the MyPlan assessment. There are books upon books about which careers align with specific personalities. You can check those out, too.

2. Skills

Skills are what you’re naturally good at but you can also acquire skills through training. Some careers are very skill-specific—like being a doctor, lawyer, dentist, or vet. But skills aren’t the only deciding factor in choosing a career you’ll love.

A common question is: How do I identify skill gaps that might be holding me back? Say you want to be an attorney but don’t have the skills yet—ask yourself, “Do I want to go to law school?” “Do I need more classes?” Decide what kind of time and effort you want to commit.

Another question is: What’s the most effective way to develop new skills while working full-time? I’ve done it—I ran a nonprofit while working full-time. I used nights and weekends to learn everything I needed to know. It’s about making space for what you want. You just have to make the commitment.

3. Interests

This is the third area. What are your interests? I like to make an interest inventory: gardening, reading, swimming, cycling, animals—whatever lights you up. Sometimes we roll these into careers, but again, interests are just one part.

For example, I love gardening, but I wouldn’t necessarily want a job at a garden shop. My personality might fit, but my skills and values might not. Interest is one of the four areas, but not everything.

Question: How do I turn my interests into viable career options? That’s a fun one! Take gardening again—if I have the skills and personality to work in a flower shop, that could be a great career. I know artists who turned their passion into real income—one friend became an art history professor, and another sells her art to hotels worldwide.

So if your heart says you love playing guitar but someone else says “You can’t make a living doing that”—I say, bullshit. If you really love it, you can create something. I totally believe that.

4. Values

This is the most important one in my opinion. If your career doesn’t align with your values, you won’t be truly happy or satisfied. You can fake personality, you can acquire skills, you can have interests—but values? You can’t fake them. You can’t run from them.

Question: How do I identify my core values if I’m unsure what they are? Do a values assessment. I do it first with every client. Define your top 10 values. And go deeper—what does a value like “communication” mean to you? Is it frequent check-ins, thoughtful emails, or something else entirely?

Question: How do I know when a job aligns with my values? There will be ease and flow. You’ll feel connected and energized. You’ll feel like everything is clicking. That’s how you know.

Our values evolve, too. Maybe you used to work 60-hour weeks and loved it, but now you’re married and value balance more. That’s natural—your values shift over time. Reassess them often.

And yes—MyPlan has a values assessment, too. It’s okay, but I do deeper work with clients around this. If you’re interested, click the “Create Call” link below and let’s talk.

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When All Four Align…

When all four components are aligned—personality, skills, interests, and values—you experience that ease and flow. But what if they point in different directions? That’s common.

My advice: Look at the composite report from MyPlan. It’ll give you a list of options. I go through it with clients and help them feel into what resonates energetically. And if nothing resonates? Dig deeper—there’s something in your results worth looking into.

Final Thoughts

That’s a wrap for today. I hope this gives you some insight on how to integrate personality, skills, interests, and values into making the best career choice for yourself.

If you have questions, click the link below. And I hope you have a beautiful day. Thanks for being here.

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Allowing Intention Setting to Guide Your Path

Hello, this is Allison Field, and welcome to Create Your Blank, where we explore different topics energetically and share interviews with people who are creating their blank.

This is my vlog, and this is the first one, so it’s kind of a test.

I wanted to pop on and share what it takes to create love. That’s a huge topic. So, I looked up the definition of love.

Love is a complex emotion that can be defined as a deep feeling of affection and care for another person, also described as a feeling of strong attachment or devotion to someone.

There are many different kinds of love:

• Romantic love
• Brotherly or sisterly love with your siblings
• Parental love
• A love of a higher being
• A love of self

This morning, I was looking at my dog. Now, dogs, to me, are pure love. They are gifts from above that are essentially love. If you look at a dog, it’s quite sweet—because even if they’ve been hurt or injured, they do not lack love.

They are so fully present with you and whoever they’re with—it’s just unconditional love. You hear this over and over again: Dogs are man’s best friend. And it’s so true.

The Key to Love: Being Fully Present

I think the essence of love—and I am not an expert at love exactly—I am an expert at energy, and I’m also an expert at what not to do in relationships!But I think the key to relationships and to love is being fully present.

Being fully present with another person lets them know that you’re with them, that you hear them, that you’re sharing with them. Giving your space and time to another human being is, I think, love—caring and nurturing.

That is the one tip I always try to go back to when I’m with somebody else—to be fully present. That lets the other person know that you’re there and that you care.

How to Create More Love in Your Life

So, how do you create more love?

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I think energetically, one of the best ways is to make a list.

• Make a list of all the things that you love or that you want in another relationship.
• If you’re creating a new relationship, define what that is.
• If it’s not about a relationship, make a list of the things you want more of in your life.

That’s step one of manifesting anything—writing it down.

I’ve done this a couple of times with different relationships, where I wrote a “Dear God” letter and listed all the things I wanted in a relationship. And it was amazing—a couple of times, I got that and more.

So, you have to be specific—because you will get that and more! Even the things you didn’t include, you’ll get. Spirit, God—whatever you call it—I call it Gus—knows what you want in your heart.

Whether you write it down or not, whether you think about writing it down or actually do, Gus knows.

So, write your letter, date it, and then put it away. I’ve done this twice, and both times the relationships came to fruition—one within a month, and one within three months. I was astounded!

The first one—he was exactly what I had written down, and so much more. And then the second one—same thing. I was like, Dang, I should have written this! I should have written that! You really want to get specific with your request.

Adding Feeling to Your Intentions

When you’re writing your letter, think about your energy. 

• What do you want more of in your life?
• More play? More fun? More freedom?

Tune into that energy and include it as part of your letter to Gus—or just write it as a journal entry. However you choose to capture it, writing it down is so much more powerful.

The Secret to Sustaining Love

Love is a choice. Love is a daily choice.

When you’re in relationships, it’s choosing who you want to be with and how you want to be with them.

The key to sustaining love is allowing the other person to be exactly as they are.

You cannot change another person. You cannot make them be a certain way. You have to allow them to be whoever they are, however they are.

You love them for all the things they are—and all the things they are not. That’s the key to sustaining a long-term relationship. 

Final Thoughts

As you go about your day, think about:

• How can you create more love in your life?
• What kinds of love do you want to create more of?

The journal exercise is super easy, super cool—you can write anything in there. It allows you to reflect on what hasn’t worked in the past and what you want to bring newly into a new relationship. Or maybe it’s something brand new that you’re creating—something new you want to experiment with.

So, that’s it for the vlog this week. I hope you have the opportunity to bring more love into your life and experience love at a higher level.

And remember—look at the dogs. Look at how much love and joy they bring into our lives. Just by being fully present.

Have a beautiful day.

Have you ever had those magical days when everything just seemed to click? You feel energized, connected, and in tune with the ease and flow of life. That, my friend, is alignment. 

But then, there are days when you feel stuck, frustrated, or disconnected. Everything feels hard like there’s an invisible wall between you and the life you’re trying to create. This feeling of misalignment is often the result of energy blocks.

While energy blocks can feel like obstacles, they’re actually powerful teachers. They bring awareness to areas in our lives that need attention, healing, or growth. When you learn to recognize and work through them, you’ll unlock the hidden gifts they offer. You will experience greater clarity, deeper connection with GUS (God, Universe, Spirit), and more ease in your spiritual journey.

Understanding Alignment

When you’re in alignment, life feels effortless. You experience a sense of ease and flow, where things naturally fall into place. When you’re in alignment you might experience:

• Ease and Joy: Things that once felt daunting become lighter, and even small moments bring happiness.
• Divine Timing: You meet the right person at the right time, or solutions appear when you need them most.
• Clear Decision-Making: Choices feel intuitive and right without second-guessing.
• Natural Energy: You wake up motivated, inspired, and ready to tackle the day.

For example, imagine waking up with an intention to bring more kindness into your day. As you go about your routine, opportunities to practice kindness arise effortlessly. It could be in a heartfelt conversation with a friend, or a moment of kindness or patience with a stranger.

Recognizing Misalignment

Misalignment, on the other hand, often shows up as resistance or discomfort. Can you relate to any of these feelings?

• Physical Sensations: You feel tension, fatigue, or heaviness in your body.
• Emotional Indicators: You feel frustration, increased irritability, or sadness that feels like it comes out of nowhere.
• Mental Resistance: Overthinking, procrastinating, or self-doubt keeps you stuck.
• Spiritual Disconnection: You’re doubting your intuition and feeling cut off from GUS.

It’s important to know that these signs are opportunities for growth. Misalignment is simply your inner compass pointing to areas that need some extra attention and care.

The Hidden Gift of Energy Blocks

Energy blocks can feel frustrating and overwhelming, but they hold powerful lessons that help us grow and evolve. By leaning into them with curiosity and intention, you can uncover hidden opportunities for self-awareness and growth. 

• Awareness is our Superpower: Blocks bring attention to what you may be avoiding. It could be a limiting belief or an unprocessed emotion.
• Resistance to Growth: Growth can be uncomfortable, but resistance signals that you’re on the edge of an opportunity for transformation.
• Avoidance Prevents Progress: Ignoring energy blocks means staying stuck. Facing them, however, leads to breakthroughs and possibilities.

Here are some common types of blocks:

• Inner Critic: This is the noise inside our head that tells us we’re not good enough, smart enough or just plain not enough.
• Limiting Beliefs: These are beliefs that we’re taught by our parents or teachers, media, friends, and sometimes we just make them up. We then internalize them as our truth.
• Stories we make up: We all have experiences and our interpretations of those experiences create our reality in the moment. 

Recognizing these blocks is the first step to understanding and working through them. The next step is deeply rooted in trust.

Trust the Process

Energy blocks can feel overwhelming at first, but remember they are part of your growth and evolution. Moving through them requires patience, compassion, and trust, not just in yourself, but in the process. Each block carries a message, so by recognizing it and allowing yourself to reframe it, you’ll create space for more clarity, alignment, and flow in your life. 

Let’s break down the steps to transform these blocks into opportunities for growth.

Explore the Energy Block

The first step to moving through a block is simply becoming aware of it.

• Name the block: Is it my inner critic, a limiting belief or just an interpretation of something that happened?
• Tune into your body: Notice where tension or discomfort shows up physically.
• Tools: Get curious about how it’s showing up for you and what it’s preventing you from doing..

Acknowledge it without judgment. This acknowledgment can immediately ease pressure to help you move forward when you’re ready.

Moving Through The Energy Block

I love these exercises when I need to release a block: 

• Inner Critic: Our inner critic keeps us safe from having to move forward but also keeps us stuck. Ask yourself: “how true is it that I’m not good enough”, or “how true is it that I’m not smart enough”? It’s often just a message that we’ve been telling ourselves our whole life and really doesn’t ring true anymore. Just telling our inner critic to take a back seat and connecting with your heart and higher self often supports us in releasing this energy that’s been keeping us stuck. 
• Limiting Beliefs: Since these are usually taught or told to us when we’re younger, we have an opportunity to create new beliefs that serve us vs. blocking us. For example: You have a belief that getting a degree in Art cannot provide a stable income. That’s definitely a view, but there are many people who have Art degrees that go on to have very fruitful and fulfilling lives. Challenging the belief is the first step.
• Stories we make up: Things happen to us throughout our lives and we make up all kinds of stories around it to justify, make ourselves feel better, or just make sense out of an experience. Consider that there are an infinite number of ways to reframe your perception to a new story that supports us rather than depletes your energy. Try it on and see how your energy shifts.

Tools for Supporting Your Alignment

Consistency is key to staying in alignment, but it doesn’t have to feel hard or overwhelming. Simple daily practices can help you tune into your energy, release resistance, and return to a state of flow. By integrating these tools into your routine, you’ll create a supportive foundation that keeps you connected to your highest self, even on challenging days.

• Morning Check-ins: Begin your day with a moment of stillness and intention setting.
• Meditation Techniques: Use guided meditations to release tension and invite clarity.
• Energy Alignment Exercises: Simple breathwork or grounding techniques can realign your energy.
• Evening Reflections: Reflect on where you felt aligned and where you experienced resistance in your day.
• Journaling Prompts: Questions like “What am I resisting?”, “What lesson does this hold for me?”, “What is this block teaching me?”, “How can I move through it?” Often just writing it down helps release those blocked feelings.
• Body Awareness Exercises: Tune into where tension resides in your body and consciously release it.
• Energy Clearing Practices: Practices like smudging or affirmations can help shift stuck energy.
• Pay attention to recurring thoughts or nudges, they hold the answers you seek.

Trust your ability to move through blocks. Trust in divine timing, and reflect on past blocks and how they led to growth. Trust in your intuition, as it will always point you in the right direction, even if the path seems unclear at first.

Maintaining Momentum

Regularly check in with your energy and alignment. Celebrate progress, no matter how small. Adjust your practices as life evolves. Do what feels good. Listen to your heart. Honor your feelings but also know your feelings are a result of your thoughts and that we always have a choice to choose a new thought that feels better for us. Remember, blocks are a part of the magical journey of life.

Are you ready to embrace the gifts of your energy blocks? Start today with curiosity and trust that you’ll be guided towards expanded awareness when you tune into your heart. Know that each block you work through increases your capacity for creative energy to support you in your alignment.

Ready to dive deeper? Download my free 30-Day Magic Intention Setting Journal today. You’ll find journal prompts, tools, and exercises designed to help you align with your highest self and navigate energy blocks with flow and ease. Download to begin your journey today!