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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.

From Foundation To Results Through Action

The FAR© model, pictured below, shows another way of putting work into the context of living.

This model shows how, in both working and living, your foundation, actions and results are interrelated.

Notice how your foundation directs your action, and how your action creates your results, and how your results can influence both your foundation and your action.

Foundation is your essence, the personal identity and meaning which you have for your self. Your sense of purpose, your values, your integrity, your personal needs, boundaries and standards combine to make your foundation. You direct all action you take in the world, whether for work or otherwise, from your foundation.
Action is everything you do. Action includes the work you do, and also includes all other things you do to live your inner and outer experience of the world. All your action is directed from your foundation and creates the results you realize.
Results are the consequences of the action you take. Results may be intended or unintended. Results may impact your foundation, for better or worse. Results may also lead to subsequent action, for better or worse.

According to the FAR© model, with respect to your work and your career, you – the Foundation – direct your work – the Action – and thereby realize your career – the Results.

Mind Your Own Career: Your Guide to Right Working for Right Living looks at the world of work through the lenses of both the Optionist© and the FAR© models.

The Optionist© model views work as one of four ways in which you may conduct your outer experience of the world. Work is based on choices that follow from your inner experience and is integrated with the other ways in which you live your outer experience. Work is what you do to pay your way in the world – beyond livelihood, you may also experience relating and doing and investing in ways that are similar to, and possibly even integrated with, the work you do.

The FAR© model views work as one area of action you take according to your foundation. Over time, you realize your work as a career. The FAR model identifies career as a result of your work and, as such, allows that your career may influence the work you undertake as well as the foundation from which you direct your work, and other, action.