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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.

Being True To Yourself At Work

To always be true to yourself, know, accept and protect yourself.

The Right Person

You are the right person – your rightness is defined by your personal integrity and values, by your personal purpose and needs, and by your personal boundaries and standards.

You express your true self everyday through your work and your career. When you align your work and your career with your integrity, values, purpose, needs, boundaries and standards, then you can always be true to yourself.

You can direct your career from a solid foundation, taking deliberate action to realize desired and intended results, and to effectively handle undesired and unintended results.

Your integrity is the cornerstone of your solid personal foundation. It determines what is right and healthy for you, and helps you to detect when anything is amiss – when you may be out of integrity in your thinking, feeling, choosing, relating, doing, working or investing.

You will always pay a price when you are out of integrity, and the price will vary depending on how misaligned you have become and on how long you allow the situation to persist. When you find that you are out of integrity, whenever you need to restore your integrity, it is better to pay a one-time price of letting go of the situation than to incur the high-interest cost of continuing to play a game with rules you do not abide.

When you articulate, and align all of your inner and outer experience with, your personal integrity; when you are clear and consistent about who you are, and this means your identify with and maintain an image of yourself that is coherent, insightful, relevant, cohesive, useful and simple (sound familiar?), then you can always be clear and consistent with your perception, interpretation and choice, you can always be clear and consistent about your action and your intended and realized results.

Your personal values are expressed through whatever you feel naturally and strongly compelled to do. You feel true fulfillment when your action and your results are consistent with your values.

You may recognize one or more of your own personal values in this list: adventure, speculation, exploration, beauty, grace, encouragement, influence, service, facilitation, assistance, creation, imagination, ingenuity, originality, inspiration, learning, observation, guidance, mastery, excellence, fun, freedom, community, relationship, play, empathy, awareness, passion, accomplishment, sensitivity, bliss, etc.

When you articulate, and orient your inner and outer experience around, your personal core values; when you are clear about and communicate all the experiences or ways of being to which you feel a strong, natural attraction, then you have a foundation that can always provide clear and consistent direction to your action and your results.

Your personal needs identify whatever you must have so you can fully express yourself. Your needs are not optional. When your personal needs are not satisfied, you devote your resources to getting them properly met. Everything else waits.

You may recognize one or more your own personal needs in this list: acceptance, approval, respect, honor, appreciation, honesty, encouragement, achievement, esteem, love, attention, clarity, control, freedom, independence, autonomy, prosperity, abundance, importance, candor, communication, education, duty, order, consistency, peace, agreement, balance, recognition, acclaim, responsibility, safety, security, power, authority, strength, influence, stamina, etc.

When you get all of your personal needs met, all of the time; when you always get whatever you need to be your best, then you direct your action and create results from a foundation that is clear and consistent about who you are, about what you need to always be your best and about what you want to have and do for yourself and others.

Your personal boundaries define imaginary lines around you that serve to protect yourself and whatever is important to you from the behavior of other people.

With your integrity intact, your values fully expressed and your personal needs satisfied, you can communicate clearly to others what is and what is not acceptable for them to say or do to or about you. You communicate your personal boundaries so others know what you expect of them.

When you create, maintain and communicate strong personal boundaries; when you are clear about and communicate what you consider acceptable in what other people say and do and what you consider acceptable in all the circumstances of your outer experience, then you have a foundation that enables you to be both graceful and gracious in all of your action and your results.

Your personal standards define the behavior to which you hold yourself accountable. You communicate your personal standards so others know what to expect of you.

When you create, maintain and communicate high personal standards; when you are clear about and communicate what you consider acceptable in what you say and do and what you consider acceptable in your action and your results, then you have a foundation that always honors yourself and others.

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