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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.

Working The Possibilities

To respond effectively to opportunities and benefit in any scenario, explore possible conditions, actions and outcomes.

The diagram below is a simple representation of how you experience the world.

You perceive what is and what’s possible by sensing and intuiting. You have a natural capacity to perceive everything through your sensory and intuitive connections to the world around you.

You interpret what you perceive by thinking and feeling. You have a natural capacity to filter out some perceptions so that only those that you consider relevant and important are presented for interpretation.

You experience the world by choosing your interpretation of what you perceive.

Right Knowledge and Right Focus

Right knowledge depends on your ability to perceive, i.e. to sense through your connection to the physical world and to intuit through your connection to the non-physical world.

You can improve your sensing ability by maintaining a healthy body, experimenting with your physical senses, and learning how your body responds to what it perceives. For example, much research has documented “muscle-testing”, the body’s ability to assess both physical and abstract things as true/false or good/bad by responding strong/weak in a simple resistance test.

See Behavioral Kinesiology by Dr. John Diamond or Power Vs Force The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. for more information about muscle testing.

You can improve your intuiting ability by maintaining an open mind, experimenting with your intuition, and learning how your intuition communicates with you. You are more likely to hear and to heed intuitive messages if you regularly practice such things as meditating, recalling and analyzing dreams, resting in calm and quiet places, reducing stress and turmoil, turning off your mind chatter, and being centered and receptive.

For more detailed descriptions of intuitive experience and ways to improve your intuiting ability, refer to Living in the Light A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation by Shakti Gawain or Intuition Workbook An Expert’s Guide to Unlocking the Wisdom of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Marcia Emery.

Right focus depends on your ability to separate what is most relevant and most important to you from all that you perceive.

Your conscious mind, relative to your non-conscious, has a limited processing capacity and relies on the non-conscious mind to sift through all that you perceive and to make you consciously aware of only those things which are most relevant and most important to you.

Your non-conscious mind withholds all perceptions that the conscious mind deems irrelevant or unimportant, and dutifully exposes all perceptions that the conscious mind deems relevant or important.

If your conscious mind holds conflicting beliefs about what is relevant or important, then the non-conscious mind will expose conflicting perceptions, and your focus may be compromised.

You can learn more about the philosophy and practice of focusing in Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin, Ph.D.

When you bring right knowledge and right focus to your work and your career, you become a career visionary. You hone the habit of seeing possibilities, learning to respond effectively to every opportunity and to benefit in any scenario. You make a habit of exploring possibilities to discover, invent and create purpose and meaning for yourself and others. You keep your conscious and non-conscious minds attuned to what is important and relevant to you.

Another excellent guide to the practice of right knowledge and right focus is Transforming Professional and Personal Life The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.

Your Personal Reflections on Possibility

How do you know what’s possible?

What is the difference between possible and impossible?

How is possibility different than probability?

How do you focus on possibilities that are relevant and important for you?

How do you accept the impact of the possibilities you focus on?

How do you think about possibilities and their impact?

How do you choose to work and live with possibilities and their impact?

What are your intentions for your work in the next 3 months? The next 3 years?

Intention is your primary motivator.

Asking “why” to a statement of something you want to have, to be or to do can lead you to a clear statement of your real intention. Asking “how” to a statement of intention can lead you to possible conditions, actions and outcomes, from which you can choose the appropriate, i.e. the necessary and sufficient ones to give your time, attention, energy and value.