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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.
Doing The Right Thing At The Right Time
To do the right thing at the right time, learn to generate timely and appropriate actions and to cultivate effective habits.
Right Action
Right action is directed from your foundation and serves to create the results that you desire and intend.
You choose right action in everything you say and do. You generate thoughts and feelings based on your perception and interpretation of your working and living situations. You then choose what to say and do to respond to and to influence those situations.
You direct your right action from your foundation. Your action is strongly and directly influenced by your personal integrity, values and needs. Your action also respects and reflects your personal boundaries and standards.
Your “comfort zone” determines your capacity for right action. As you live and work, your thinking, your feelings and your choices, and any action you may take to realize desired and intended results, define your personal comfort zone. Your comfort zone with respect to your work and your career reflects the integration of you, your work, and your career. How well does your work reflect who you are, and contribute to a career that is meaningful for you? How do your career results, whether desired, intended or realized, affect the work you do and who you are?
Your habits also determine your capacity for right action. As you live and work, especially within your personal comfort zone, you may develop habitual patterns for thinking, feeling, choosing, relating to others and acting. Your habits with respect to your work and your career may reflect the degree to which your intentions, your action and your results can be deliberate.
Exploring Your Comfort Zone
The Framework for Internal Transformation, developed by Dr. Ben Fletcher, includes an exercise for exploring outside of your comfort zone. Each day, select one of the following pairs of behaviors and intentionally adopt the one that is counter to your usual preference:
| Unassertive | Assertive |
| Trusting of others | Cautious of others |
| Calm/relaxed | Energetic/Driven |
| Reactive | Proactive |
| Definite | Flexible |
| Outer-directed | Inner-directed |
| Risky | Cautious |
| Behave as expected | Behave as you wish |
| Spontaneous | Systematic |
| Single-minded | Open-minded |
| Introverted | Extroverted |
| Conventional | Unconventional |
| Individually centered | Group centered |
| Firm | Gentle |
| Lively | Not lively |
| Optimistic | Pessimistic |
| Confident | Doubting |
| Accepting | Resisting |
| Adaptable | Rigid |
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