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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.

Playing DICE To Balance Working And Living

To work as effectively as possible, discover, invent or create work that is balanced and integrated with a full inner and outer life.

Ideally, you commit enough of your time, energy and attention to an ongoing exploration of the possibilities available to you. Such exploration seems to be the only way to ensure your continued growth and personal development.

All things come to you in one of three ways: Discovery, Invention or Creation.

You might experience the world and your work anew through discovery of something already created or invented. You might use the things you have discovered to invent something new which enhances work experience for yourself and others. Finally, you might create something unique which by itself, or combined with other discoveries, inventions or creations, contributes to your own and others’ experience.

Exploration is essential to effective discovery, invention and creation, equally for your inner and your outer experience.

You can play, and win, at DICE when you allow yourself to Discover – Invent – Create – Explore the world and your work.

Your Personal Reflections on Working and Money

What are the evident trends in your career? Does your work consume more or less of your time? Does your work demand more or less of your attention? Does your work energize you, or burn your energy away? Do you find your work becoming more or less rewarding, either materially or otherwise?

Why do you work? Do you believe that you work more or less than is necessary and sufficient to provide your livelihood?

What is a career? Do you believe that the work you do is more or less than a career?

Why might you need to manage your career?

How would you manage your career?

How important is the money you earn or have to your work and your career?

What rewards, besides money, do you value for your work and your career?

Have your views about work and money changed over time?

Do you expect that your views about work and money may change?

The employer/employee and corporation/professional relationship must be business to business, or human to human – the business entity has rules of conduct completely different than human rules of conduct. Compare the rule books: “How People Behave” and “How Corporations Behave”.