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Mind Your Own Career: Your Guide to Right Working for Right Living can help you to explore important questions about how you, your work, your career and your life are integrated, and to understand, and even to change, the answers you find.

The guide lays a foundation with a basic philosophy and some practical tips for changing your answers to these questions, so your answers become more suitable for who you are, what you need and what you want – in your work, as well as in your larger life.

Controlling The Direction And Pace Of Your Career

To control the direction and pace of career growth, balance short, medium and long term views.

Right Perspectives

Right perspectives help you to see yourself, your work, your career and your life from different points of view that consider different time frames. When you maintain clear and balanced short, medium and long term views of who you are, where you are and where you want to go, you can more easily see the appropriate relevance and importance of specific events and circumstances.

You can master the path of your career by controlling the direction and pace of the changes you initiate or accept to realize the benefits of personal and career growth.

You can be fully accountable and responsible for whatever happens to you and your career over the short, medium and long term.

You can make short, medium and long term choices, goals and commitments that are based on clear intention and purpose.

You can anticipate and recognize landmarks along your career path and regularly celebrate your progress. You can also recognize unexpected destinations along the way and take joy in discovering them.

Your progress along your chosen career path, whether in the short, medium or long term, is subject to constant course correction.

You may make regular corrections to the direction and pace of your career to ensure that you realize an intended destination in a time and manner that is important to you. You may also make corrections to the direction and pace of your career to take advantage of an opportunity to realize a desirable destination that you may not have anticipated with your initial intentions.

Your ability to make effective course corrections in the direction, pace and destinations on your short, medium and long term career path depends directly and entirely on your ability to make choices.

Your Personal Reflections on Work and Values

How does value flow in your work – who provides value to you and to whom do you provide value?

How do you determine the value of the work you do or of the products and services to which your work contributes?

How do you determine the value of your work to those who benefit from it?

How does the value of the work you do, or the results you realize from that work, relate to your personal values – the things you naturally find relevant and important for you?

In general, how compelling do you find the work you do – is it something you would do even if it did not provide your livelihood?

How compelling do you find specific aspects of the work you do?

Reflect on your career. If your career, as you have lived it, represented your whole life experience, what values would it seem to express? How consistent are your career’s apparent values with your own personal values?