Take some time, at least 30 minutes (with your phone off!), and contemplate the following. These will help you figure out what matters most to you in both work and life before you make any big decisions about your next moves or things you want to change in your life.
Life view #
- Why are we here?
- What is the meaning or purpose of life? Of my life?
- What is the relationship between the self and others?
- Where do family, country, and the world fit in?
- What is good? Evil?
- Is there a higher power and what impact does it have on your life?
- What is the role of sadness, injustice, love, peace?
- How much do I value being assertive versus being nurturing?
- What do I fear when I speak up? When was the first time I remembered this? How did it make me feel?
Work view #
- Why work?
- What’s work for?
- What does work mean?
- How does it relate to the individual, culture, society?
- What defines good or worthwhile work?
- What does money have to do with it?
- What do experience, growth, and fulfillment have to do with it?
- What do I think I’m good at?
- If I could have any other job in the world, what would it be? Why?
Adapted from questions by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.