Blog Talk About Career Ownership | Thinking Rich | Inner Experience

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.

Your Personal Belief Systems (aka BS)

Throughout your daily working and living, you build and maintain belief systems – your own personal BS.

Your belief systems help you to make sense of the world around you, and guide you in your interactions with other people, as well as in your response to possibilities and realities.

Your belief systems give you a model of “the way things are”.

It is your model and you can change it in any way and at any time you choose.

Or, you can polish it to imagined perfection and believe that when the world and the model don’t match, then the world must have gone wrong.

You may have one model, simple or complicated, that you use for all situations.

Or, you may have several models, more or less different, that serve you in different areas of your life.

It is essential to cultivate multiple models, or at least to keep your primary model flexible because “there is an enormous difference between the dead letter and the living word.” (Robert Bella)

Many people seem to forget what their models are, and allow them free reign to control their inner and outer experiences. A forgotten model can become a palimpsest that bleeds through any new models constructed over it.

Your models cover the gamut of what is, what’s possible and how you think and feel about your place in that mix.