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How to Find the Work You Love
Ch. 3 - Heeding the Call
Ch. 4 - Integrity The Call of Conscience
By Michelle Yi and Mary Pellegrino
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Decide what you are looking for
Decide to keep looking until you find it
Decide when you have found it
It creative passion, NOT a career
role/position title
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Back to the Beginning Motives for Work
Money
What parents wanted
Prestige
A job in demand
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Questions to Ask
What was I born to do?
What is my destiny?
What gifts do I want to share?
What would I really love to do?
What is my natural work?
What are my talents?
Pursue the answer to these questions and you will
be
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Element Creative Power
Focusing Question
Integrity Inspired from within, born of your own
values, visions, and intuitions. Service Useful
to others, providing you with the opportunity to
give your gifts in a meaningful
way. Enjoyment Natural to you, allowing you to
take full advantage of your innate talents and
abilities. Excellence Prompts you to do your
best work, you love what you are doing enough to
do your best work.
What speaks to me? What touches me? What
turns me on? What draws out my best?
Conscience Compassion Talent Destiny
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Integrity
This above all, - to thine own self be
true/ And it must follow, as the night the
day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man. -
William Shakespeare-
Virtue effective force or power and moral
excellence
Moral excellence/obedience to your conscience
gives you effective force or power of creative
action
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Creative Integrity and the Inner Child
Losing our inner child loses our sense of wonder
and natural exuberance for life
The dreamers are the saviors of the
world -James Allen-
What did I want to do as a child?
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Creative Integrity and the Wisdom of Age
Losing touch with the old man or woman inside
each of us loses our sense of perspective
Live as you will have wished to have lived when
you are dying -Christian Gellert-
When it is all said and done, what do I want my
life to have been about?
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Creative Integrity and the Voice of Intuition
We are not in touch with what we would love to do
because we have learned to censor ourselves and
ignore creative inspirations
Dont listen to friends when the Friend inside
you says, Do this. -Mahatma Gandhi-
What would you do without the fear of looking
foolish?
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The End