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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.

Keeping Work And Money In Perspective

To “work” as little as possible and “make” as much money as possible, live a philosophy that keeps work and money in perspective.

What, do you believe, is work and why do you do it?

Different people adopt and live by different views of the world and different views of work. You may see the world or your work as a battlefield, a machine, a community, a trap, a game, a duty, an adventure.

How do you view the world? How do you view your work?

The Career Consciousness Self Assessment, based on findings documented in Power Vs. Force The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., can give you some insight into how you view your work, according to the feelings you experience at work.

The assessment moves from the least desirable feelings, e.g. ashamed, guilty, trapped, etc. and moves to more desirable feelings, e.g. pride, confidence, fulfillment, etc.

Ideally, you have work that rarely or never gives you the less desirable feelings, and that frequently or always gives you the more desirable feelings.

The more you never experience the more desirable feelings and the more you always experience the more desirable feelings, the better suited you and your work are for each other.

Whatever your view, work cannot be only what you do for the Corporation; work must be something you also do for yourself and, ideally, something you do for others. And work cannot be the only thing you do; work must fit the space you allot for it in your life.

What, do you believe, is money and why do you want or need it?

During the years that I worked with the corporation to design and build business information systems, we always started by talking with the business people to get a clear understanding of the purpose and objectives of their business and of the technology appropriate to support their business activity.

Business people always insist that they are in business “to make money” – they believe the sole purpose and primary objective of their business activity is “to make money”. Similarly, most people believe that they work “to make money”. This belief in “making money” is so pervasive and so ingrained that it often hides any evidence of the true purpose of work and business.

There are only two businesses in the entire universe whose true purpose is “to make money” – and only one of those is legal. If you are a counterfeiter or your business is a mint, then yes, the purpose of your business and your work is “to make money”.

Otherwise, your business and your work are truly about something else – the flow of money can be a way to measure how effectively your work serves your true purpose, but “making money” is not why you work.

Money is the language of the corporation – it is not really a natural human tongue. You can learn the language of money well enough to serve your need to communicate with, or to understand, the corporation.