Thomas Kuhn once said: "The answers you get depend on the questions you ask."
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Today, ask yourself the question: “What’s important to me?” Is it being around people? Is it a passion for a particular cause? Is it providing stability for your family or having the financial freedom to travel the world? Thinking about your career through the lens of what’s most important to you can be a very clarifying exercise and open our minds to opportunities we may not have initially considered. Today, your task is to write down as many of these important things as you can. Don’t worry about making the list perfect, but be sure to give this activity at least 10 minutes of your time. Getting crisp on what's important to you will help give your Personal Career Story a clear north star and be one of the key themes you'll use when you talk about where you want to go next.
Got questions? Keep reading for some of the most common places folks get stuck on today's activity.
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One way to start thinking about what's important to you is by thinking about your non-negotiables: the things that you absolutely need to to see in your career. Some examples might be:
Once you jot down some of your non-negotiables, you can start to think through other things that are very important for you to see in your career too. Some examples might be:
Differentiating between things that you need and things that are really important to you will help you see how you can check the boxes in each of these lists. Too often, we confuse these two categories and end up sacrificing on the things that are important to us. In reality, we can absolutely check the boxes in both categories, but we have to acknowledge them separately first.
While personal values aren't exactly what we're listing out today, they are deeply connected to the things that are important to you. BetterUp has a great summary of how you can think about Personal Values, which you can use to help inspire your thinking today.
Great question. Being transparent about what is important to you is critical if you want to develop an authentic Personal Career Story. Today, you should absolutely write down all the things that are imporant to you, and in the coming days, we'll frame these things in a way that helps others see how these things can be of value to them, too.
Here's an example:
He's a pretty cool cat that wrote a very influential book about how we look and think about science.
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