Chapter 3: Self-Esteem, Values, and Purpose

Dawn Forrester; Eden Isenstein

Chapter 3: Self-Esteem, Values, and Purpose

Self Esteem, Values, and Purpose

This week we will cover three often over looked but very important topics: self-esteem, values, and purpose. Often, people do not think about the roles that these factors play in their lives and the impact that they can have on one’s career.

SELF-ESTEEM

Let’s think about self-esteem for a minute. What if you’ve always wanted to be a veterinarian, but you are worried that you can’t do all that math and science? As career counselors, we hear concerns like this frequently. If a person is struggling with their self-esteem, it will affect what they believe they can accomplish. Unfortunately, low self-esteem has kept many people from pursuing their dream job.

Consider these two quotes taken from a study conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“Believing in oneself is more than just a motivational slogan; it can strongly influence long-term career advancement and overall health.”

and

“…participants who scored high on self-evaluations enjoyed success earlier in their careers, engaged in continued higher education, and advanced more quickly than those who scored lower on self-evaluations.”

Not only does self-esteem determine what one thinks they are capable of, but it also can impact career advancement and health, too. It is worth spending some time evaluating your level of self-esteem and the impact it might have on your career development. Many people have suffered harm and trauma that has impacted their self-esteem. The good news is that self esteem is not static; it changes over time and there are plenty of actions you can take to build up your self-esteem.

Check out this “Self-Esteem Self Guided Tour”. It is a helpful tool to assess where you are at with your self-esteem and where you could use support to heal and grow.

Self Esteem Self-Guided Tour – Rate Your Self Esteem

Hello, friend. Welcome to the National Association for Self Esteem’s “Self Guided Tour.” The following questions are not so much a survey, assessment, or evaluation as they are an exploration into the development of your Self Esteem. While we are all accustomed to seeing test questions as having right and wrong answers, that does not apply here. This is not a test. There are no wrong answers in our “Self Guided Tour.” Each question is designed to simply encourage thought and discussion. More important than your response to the questions is the time you spend reading the “Self Esteem Enhancers,” seen to the right of (or below) each question. We at NASE know that your Self Esteem is a private issue and that is why our “Self Guided Tour” is completely anonymous. Have fun, enjoy, and remember to read the “Self Esteem Enhancers” to the right of (or below) each question. When you’re finished answering the questions you can request to receive a printable Tip Sheet to help you remember some of the things you can do to help reinforce healthy Self Esteem.

ALERT

You may find as you’re taking the “Self Guided Tour” that you are responding to the questions in terms of how you would, ideally, like to be. Please resist that temptation and answer, instead, from a place of complete self-honesty.

1. When you make a mistake, do you tend to….

Feel ashamed and embarrassed.
Who me? I never make mistakes. But if I did make one, I would immediately correct it and hope no one was watching.
Have no fear owning up to it in public, and I am open to receiving help from others in fixing it.

It is quite “normal,” and human, to not enjoy making mistakes! That is why we often feel embarrassed, deny their existence, and/or blame others for our errors. We believe that the best way is to admit your mistakes, learn from them and take corrective action. After all, a mistake is a mistake – no more, no less.

2. On average, when you look at yourself in the mirror what do you believe you see?

Someone who is attractive and confident.
Someone who is average and often unsure about what to do in life.
Someone who is ugly and insecure.

We live in a society that emphasizes glamour and sex appeal. That is why most of us strive to achieve external beauty, but oftentimes we lose our uniqueness in the process. If we can accept the things we’d like to change without badmouthing or beating up on ourselves, we’ve come a long way toward self-acceptance.

3. When you are dealing with a problem in your life what do you tend to do?

Blame everyone or anything that I think caused the situation. It’s rarely my fault.
I complain and vent to anyone willing to listen but rarely address my personal responsibility for the issue.
Take responsibility for my thoughts, words, and actions because if I take ownership I am not a victim to the situation.

Taking responsibility for your own thoughts, words, and actions is more easily said than done. However, we believe the quality of your wellbeing is directly proportional to how much self-responsibility you are willing to take. When we blame others or outside events for our position or condition in life we lock ourselves into a prison of pain. There truly is freedom in taking ownership for how we respond to what happens to us in life.

4. If my wants and needs are different from those of others, I am likely to…

Give up and give in. I’d accommodate.
Say, “My way or the highway!” I argue until I get my way.
Try to avoid them altogether. Why bother trying to get my needs on the table. Mine aren’t important, and neither are theirs.
Create a win/win.

Your wants, needs and self-worth are as important as those of anyone else. However, that doesn’t mean others will automatically respect them. If you silence your own voice, others will not know what you want or need. It’s up to you to claim your needs as important and learn how to respectfully assert yourself. With practice, you’ll be amazed at how this will become second nature.

5. When you think about the greater purpose of your life what do you tend to think?

I feel like I am drifting. I am ashamed to admit it but I don’t know what I should be doing or even where to start.
I have a general picture of what I want to do and what I am capable of creating for my life.
I am on course with my purpose, and know I am capable of creating whatever my heart desires for my life.

Have you ever wondered “Why am I here?” or “What am I supposed to do in life?” If so, you’re in very good company. This is one of the most fundamental life decisions you can make. Your purpose is about what you plan to achieve and the kind of person you want to be. Your character and your habits will lead you to be healthier, happier and more successful. What are you good at? What do you really enjoy? These are two good places to look when you’re trying to decide your direction. Your life has the potential to be so much more than you might imagine. The most important thing is that your life has meaning for you.

6. When I make a commitment to myself I often tend to…

Break it before the end of the hour, I am terrible at following up on my self-goals.
I do it with hesitation and fear because I so desperately hate disappointment.
tick to it with conviction and await the rewards that I believe will come from it.

If you’ve ever heard the phrase, your word is your bond, you’ll understand why honoring commitments is an aspect of healthy Self Esteem. A commitment is a pledge; and a pledge is a guarantee. When you make a commitment to yourself or others you’re putting your integrity on the line. As you learn to demonstrate that you can be counted on to do what you say, you build your Self Esteem and your credibility at the same time. That way you and others will know that “you walk your talk.”

7. When you talk to yourself (you know, that little voice in your head) what does it tend to sound like?

Very critical and negative. I often put myself down and beat myself up emotionally.
Fairly confident and supportive, but I still have those days when my self-talk holds back my true greatness.
Extremely confident and helpful. I have learned to become my own best friend and weed out my limiting thoughts from the empowering ones.

If you’re like most people you say things to yourself you wouldn’t tolerate coming from another person. Negative self-talk scares us out of taking positive risks so we can avoid failure. Here’s how you can start to build positive, self-empowering inner dialogues. First, recognize your negative self-talk. Next, interrupt the pattern; tell yourself “Erase that. Here’s what I really mean!” The last step is to give yourself a positive instruction, like “I can do this. I’m up to the task,” or “Let’s try it on for size.” The more you’re able to replace your negative self-talk with positive, the more your Self Esteem and self-confidence will grow.

8. How do you often react to what other people say about you?

I take things personally, and if I think someone is saying something negative about me I take it too much to heart.
I get defensive and often respond with an equal, if not greater, negative reaction to them.
I value what others have to say about me — but honestly — I know who I am, and other peoples’ opinions have no bearing on my self-worth.

When you put more weight on your own judgement than on others’ it’s easier to keep their words in perspective without becoming defensive. Your strong sense of self-worth allows you to maintain your power and still hear what others have to say without feeling bad about yourself.

Source:

Self Esteem Self-Guided Tour – Rate Your Self Esteem. (n.d.) Retrieved April 7, 2021 from: https://healthyselfesteem.org/rate-your-self-esteem/

The following are some tips that can be helpful as you are thinking about how to increase your self-esteem:

How to Build Self-Esteem: 5 Tactics to Change How You See Yourself

Everyone experiences bouts of self-doubt, but if low self-esteem is affecting your life, try these 5 tactics to build confidence and boost your self-esteem

Article by: Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC

Your sense of self-worth will impact every arena of your life. Your job, your relationships, and even your physical and mental health are a reflection of your self-esteem. But what exactly helps shape your view of yourself and your abilities? The truth is that your level of self-esteem may have grown or shrunk based on how people have treated you in the past and the evaluations you’ve made about your life and your choices.

The good news is that you have a fair amount of control when it comes to increasing your level of self-worth. There are simple, concrete changes you can make that challenge your mind and your body. One such change is to take steps to reduce negative thinking and build up positive, encouraging thoughts about the person you are and can be.

Replace Negative With Positive Thinking

Identify triggers – To increase the level of positive thinking in your day-to-day life, you first have to recognize what people, places, and things promote negative thinking. Maybe it’s the balance in your bank account, or perhaps it’s a coworker who’s always complaining. You can’t change certain situations, but you can change how you react to them and understand them. That starts with paying attention to what makes you feel sad or anxious.
Take notes – There’s an ongoing dialogue, or “self-talk,” always happening in your brain as you go about your day. This self-talk takes in the world around you and makes evaluations about yourself and others. So take the time to start noticing any interesting trends in this dialogue. Is this thinking based on facts? Or is it usually leaning towards the irrational, always assuming the worst in a situation?
Challenge your thinking – If you see yourself jumping to conclusions, or always downplaying the positive about yourself, then you have to step up and add some positive thinking to your self-talk. Learning to focus on the positive and to encourage yourself is a lot like a strengthening a muscle. You have to exercise your brain a little every day to develop a capacity for positive thinking, to forgive yourself when you make mistakes, and to learn to give yourself credit when you accomplish a goal.

Take an Inventory

If you’re unsure where you rank when it comes to self-esteem, taking an inventory of your personal qualities can help. If you find yourself listing more weaknesses than strengths, this might be a sign that you tend to be too hard on yourself. Consider what talents, abilities, and passions you have not listed or maybe even discovered yet. Never assume you know everything about yourself and what you’re capable of. People with high self-esteem leave room for self-discovery every day.

Acknowledge Successes

Often people with low self-esteem will dismiss their successes as luck or chance. Or they might focus on not being perfect rather than highlighting how far they have come. People with high self-esteem take the time to celebrate their accomplishments. They say, “Thank you,” when people compliment them, rather than dismissing their praise. This doesn’t mean that people with high-self esteem are arrogant or narcissistic; they just have faith in their abilities and acknowledge successes when they do happen.

Stop Comparing Yourself

Other people can’t be the standard when it comes to your self-esteem. This is because you’ll always find someone who appears better than you or more capable than you in any arena of life. Social media certainly doesn’t help, as researchers have found that people who check social media very frequently are more likely to suffer from low self-esteem. Remind yourself that people usually only share the best parts of their life online. Your own life should be the yardstick rather than others’ lives because what is your best may not be someone else’s, and vice versa. Remind yourself that any time you make an improvement or prevent yourself from repeating a mistake, you are making progress.

Practice Self-Care

The more you demonstrate that you value your health, the more you develop a capacity for loving other parts of yourself. Listen to your body and avoid foods that make you feel irritable or tired. Eating healthy and exercising also can increase positive thinking and help you feel more encouraged about your future. If you spend time with people who care about you, you may find that suddenly it’s easier for you to care for yourself.

Remember that learning positive thinking and developing healthy lifestyle strategies aren’t going to be overnight miracles. Being kind to yourself and increasing your sense of self-worth takes time, practice, and patience. But the more you challenge your thoughts and perspectives, the greater joy you can find in yourself and your abilities. You’ll feel proud of how far you’ve come, and you’ll look forward to the future.

Source:

Smith, K.S. (2021, January 22). How to Build Self-Esteem: 5 Tactics to Change How You See Yourself. Retrieved April 8, 2021, from https://www.psycom.net/increasing-self-esteem

VALUES

Think for a moment about what your values do for you… What role do they play in your life? Do they guide your decisions and behavior? Do they give you rules to live by? Do they help you understand right from wrong?

Whether we realize it or not, our values dictate a set of guidelines for how we live our lives. For some of us, thinking about our values is not something that we spend much time doing. However, values play a major role in whether or not we are happy, satisfied and fulfilled by the work that we do. Values can quite often be the determining factor in liking our job or disliking it. This chapter will give you the opportunity to reflect on the roles that your values play in your life and will allow you to discover and articulate what values are important for you to have in your career.

Where are you starting? Do you have some ideas about which careers interest you? Do you believe you can be anything you choose? You will have a chance to think about these questions and more as you read and complete the activities in this chapter.

In the process of career exploration, knowing and being able to articulate what your work values are is one of the most important and primary steps you need to take.

How to Access Your Career Values

When considering a new job or career, your career values count as one of the most important factors that will guide your choices. These values will help when you decide on a potential company or position for employment.

Your career values represent the beliefs you have about what is important in your work, and what makes it meaningful to you.

What Do You Want From a Job?

People look for different things in their jobs. Some will look for prestige, while others seek a creative outlet, and still, others want flexible hours and independence. The list of desires can include earning a high income and meeting and interacting with people. Of course, the chance for advancement in the career field is also a primary driver of why people will choose any particular position.

As you can see from this list, values vary greatly from person to person. What matters to one may mean little to another person. So, it is essential to understand the unique makeup of your value system.

Once you figure out what you value, you’ll have the answer to what motivates you to do your best job, and you can use this knowledge to guide your employment choices.

Career Satisfaction

Some career theorists believe that how well a job or career satisfies our values should be the most important consideration when evaluating options.

These theorists posit that work which lines up with our values will be more meaningful, and we will be more likely to invest our energies to master the roles and achieve success. Most career experts recommend considering personality traits, interests and abilities in conjunction with values when making career choices.

Identifying Your Values

One way to identify your career values is to look at a list of examples and rate how much each of the items matters to you. Rate the list on a scale of one to ten. Then examine some of the highest-rated values and choose six to ten that should have the greatest weight when considering career and alternatives.

You can also separate these descriptive terms into categories, such as who, what, where, and workload. Instead of a numerical ranking system, you may choose to rank the terms using Must have, Nice to have, Ok not to have, and Must not have.

Some of the values you want and require in your work or career probably involve qualities and opportunities that enhance your life emotionally and intellectually. Achieving these values as part of your job or career might make you feel challenged, inspired, and fulfilled.

Some career or job values have to do more with the environment in which you spend a large proportion of your waking hours, and the conditions under which you perform your work.

While these values may not offer as much emotional fulfillment, they can make your work life easier to navigate, such as having a mentor, or easing financial stress, because you have job security.

The following list captures examples of some of these types of values:

Adventure
Autonomy
Avoiding stress
Building things
Camaraderie
Casual work environment
Challenge
Changing the world
Collaborating with others
Competition
Creating new things
Creativity
Diversity
Employee benefits
Exposure to beauty
Fast pace
Fun
Helping others
High income
High level of interaction with people
Income-based on productivity
Influencing others
Intellectually demanding work
Job security
Location
Moral/spiritual fulfillment
Opportunity for advancement
Opportunity to lead
Opportunity to learn new things
Outlet for creativity
Physical activity
Pleasant work environment
Power
Prestige
Recognition
Risk-taking
Routine work
Seeing tangible results from work completed
Sharing ideas or information
Socialization
Solving problems
Status as an expert
Structure
Supportive management
Team membership
Time freedom
Travel
Variety of tasks
Work/life balance
Working alone
Working outside

You can also use this list to generate ideas for different types of jobs or positions to explore if you’re in the midst of a job search, and flesh out your resume by adding a few in your resume’s employment objective section and in your cover letter.

Source:

Doyle, A. (2019, October 23). How to Assess Your Career Values. Retrieved April 7, 2021, from https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-are-career-values-with-examples-2059752

Passion or Purpose?

You may have had people ask you, “What are passionate about?” Or try to give you sage advice by telling you, “Just follow your passion.”

But passion is tricky. How do we know what we are passionate about? Maybe we have fleeting passions – one week it’s psychology, the next week it’s all about animals. Maybe we’ve never felt the spark of being passionate about something or we don’t know what that is supposed to feel like.

Luckily, researchers at Stanford University have found that following one’s passion is not always the best advice and in fact, it can narrow one’s focus to the point that other options are neglected or not noticed.

Stanford researchers: Follow your passion advice could make you less successful

By Abigail Johnson Hess, June 2018

“If your college graduation speaker told you to “follow your passion,” you may want to ignore them.

According to an upcoming paper in Psychological Science written by three Stanford researchers, that advice may actually make people less successful, since it unrealistically implies an easy path to success and narrows your focus too much.

Stanford psychologists Carol Dweck and Gregory Walton, with the help of former Stanford postdoctoral fellow Paul O’Keefe, conducted a series of laboratory studies that examined the belief systems that lead people to succeed or fail.

The researchers recruited participants from two categories: those who were passionate about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and those who were passionate about humanities and the arts.

Over five experiments, the researchers observed a total of 470 participants as they read articles and watched videos on subjects that interested them and on subjects that did not interest them. Participants who were deeply interested in only one topic were less likely to finish and understand the materials.

The researchers concluded that popular mantras like “follow your passion” make people think that pursuing a passion will be easy. Believers are then more likely to give up when they face challenges or roadblocks.

They also found that focusing on following a single passion made people less likely to consider new potential areas of interest. This close-minded view can be detrimental to the success of the individual and to the success of communities, says Walton.

“Many advances in sciences and business happen when people bring different fields together, when people see novel connections between fields that maybe hadn’t been seen before,” he says.

O’Keefe adds that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected, making people who are able to make connections between fields such as art, technology and the social sciences more valuable than ever.

“If you are overly narrow and committed to one area, that could prevent you from developing interests and expertise that you need to do that bridging work,” says Walton.

Instead of thinking of your career as an opportunity to follow your passion, the researchers suggest thinking of life as a series of opportunities to develop several passions.

“If you look at something and think, ‘that seems interesting, that could be an area I could make a contribution in,’ you then invest yourself in it,” says Walton. “You take some time to do it, you encounter challenges, over time you build that commitment.”

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and star on ABC’s hit reality television show, “Shark Tank,” takes this line of thinking one step further.

“One of the great lies of life is ‘follow your passions,’” said Cuban as part of the Amazon Insights for Entrepreneurs series. “Everybody tells you, ‘Follow your passion, follow your passion.’”

He argues that people should focus on their strengths rather than their passions, because we are not always good at the things that interest us the most and because perfecting a strength can become a passion.

“I used to be passionate to be a baseball player. Then I realized I had a 70-mile-per-hour fastball,” jokes Cuban. Competitive major league pitchers throw fastballs in the range of 90-plus miles per hour.

“When you look at where you put in your time, where you put in your effort, that tends to be the things that you are good at. And if you put in enough time, you tend to get really good at it,” he says. “If you put in enough time, and you get really good, I will give you a little secret: Nobody quits anything they are good at because it is fun to be good. It is fun to be one of the best.”

Source:

Hess, A.J. (2018) Following your passion makes you less successful. Retrieved April 9, 2021, from https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/22/stanford-researchers-following-your-passion-makes-you-less-successful.html

Many years ago, I was guilty of having students search or strive to uncover their passion. I don’t do this anymore. Instead, I encourage students to think about purpose. What purpose do you want to serve? Below is an article that addresses this idea.

Beyond A Career, Have An Awesome Life Purpose

By Raquel Vaz, September 2018

“Since I was young, I’ve noticed that there are people who stand out from the crowd. The earliest role models I admired were grade school teachers that had something more in their eyes. They showed passion in their work educating students, and I wanted to follow their examples.

These were people with something more, something that was beyond my comprehension, but effectively mesmerized everyone around them. There was something magical about it. These teachers had the power to make learning special, and, at the same time, natural.

Later in life, I found that same glint in the eyes from leaders of social movements, environmentalists, and successful professionals.

From observing these great leaders, I discovered the meaning of purpose: passion, a reason behind goals and actions that motivate you to get up every day to do something more than just making money.

True success goes beyond stereotypes.

Purpose helps you—defining and measuring what true professional success means to you. Though ideals of success exist and society has created those stereotypes, your professional achievement is personal and distinctive.

A fast-paced and stressful executive life can be defined as successful by more competitive types, while it is far from the ideal of a person seeking a more peaceful life, such as an owner of a yoga studio—and vice versa.

Is having a personal purpose the key to professional achievement?

More important than pursuing a great career is chasing what fulfills you. Everything indicates that knowing and accepting yourself as well as discovering and following your passion is the right path for anyone who wants success.

Who doesn’t want to be a successful professional? Find what moves you and move towards that direction.

You are right to believe that taking that direction is not simple. I also realized that it would be too innocent to believe so. However, not all successful professionals carry the same brightness in their eyes. On the contrary, a successful career often comes with a great burden.

So, how is having a purpose different in bringing true professional success?

Certainly, when a person is aware of their personal purpose, their choices are more assertive and their goals clearer. Making a choice is saying no to a host of other possibilities. When you’re clear about your purpose, you can make decisions with the certainty that you’re choosing the best path for yourself.

The challenges and the battles in following your purpose does not make the path simple; it remains arduous, so don’t get discouraged along the way.

Thankfully, there is a big difference in your journey of purpose. It is the way you face universal life challenges and the unknown strengths within you to face each one of them:

Knowing to choose what battles to fight

The major difference is that the purpose allows you to know what battles you want to fight and which ones are not worth pursuing.

Not everything we do on a day-to-day basis is enjoyable, and sometimes we can lose focus and even fight over things that will not make a big difference for us or where we work. When we know our “why” we can focus our energy easier.

Holding a firm and proper posture

When you know your aspiration and goals, the way to act is coherent to what you believe in, therefore, more natural.

So, especially for women, the purpose helps to have a firmer and more accurate stance in a variety of situations—including when facing somewhat hostile corporate environments.

Do not allow yourself to be limited

Unfortunately in the corporate world—especially as a woman—it is common to allow self-limiting where your self-esteem decreases and you silence your voice. But, at times like this, purpose reminds you of who you are and who you believe you should be. It becomes clear that what others impose on you is not in line with your true limitations. You know you are more valuable—and you make yourself heard.

Fear diminishes and courage is gained

Empowerment in your profession and in your life is the incredible difference of having clarity in your personal purpose. The courage to be who you are allows you to take more risks, take more action, and speak up. Job changes or entrepreneurial adventures become less complex. It makes you understand that when you fall, you just get up and move on. Your purpose gives you the strength to lift your head when wolves try to devour you. It clarifies what you want, but especially what you do not want for yourself.

The magic is in you. In your ability to believe in what you were born to do.

The strength of a purpose does not make the path simpler, but it empowers and equips you to face each obstacle.

You gain strength from being yourself without fear. You begin to have more courage to follow what you want, not what society tries to tell you is necessary to be a successful professional.

You can and should define what success means to you. So, I challenge you to answer these questions for yourself:

Is the success model I see out there what really makes me happy?
What could make my eyes shine every day?
Success! What is it to me?
What should be the measure of my success?

Being successful can be as simple as doing small day-to-day tasks that make you feel good about yourself.”

Source:

Vaz, R. (2018) Beyond a career, have an awesome life purpose. Retrieved April 9, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2018/09/27/beyond-a-career-have-an-awesome-life-purpose/?sh=431990e269ec

VALUES AND SELF-ESTEEM AND PURPOSE, OH MY!

At this point, you might be wondering how self-esteem, values, and purpose work together. Saundra Loffredo (2017) suggests that our values give us a “sense of purpose” and acts as guides towards careers that might fit us best.

So, at the risk of over-simplifying this process, we might say that our values lead to our purpose and our self-esteem is what allows us to acknowledge and act on our purpose. Of course, a lower self-esteem can hold us back and keep us from action, which is why it is important to check our self-esteem and consider whether or not it needs some enhancement.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

Out of the 10 values that you chose on the Personal Values Assessment, what are your top 3?
What occupations might allow you to express your work values? How can you imagine these values being represented by a possible career?
Consider the readings on self-esteem. How would you rate your current level of self-esteem? Do you think this is something you need or would like to work on? If so, how might you do that? (hint: refer back to the two articles for specific ideas)
Consider the reading on purpose. Spend some time to think about and answer author Raquel Vaz’s question (article above: Beyond A Career, Have An Awesome Life Purpose): What could make my eyes shine every day? Your answer to this question will change over time, but think about how you would answer this question today.
Optional. Was there anything else from this week’s lesson that stood out to you or you felt was impactful? If so, what was it? How do you think it could impact your career exploration process?

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Self Esteem, Values, and Purpose

SELF-ESTEEM

Self Esteem Self-Guided Tour – Rate Your Self Esteem

ALERT

Replace Negative With Positive Thinking

Take an Inventory

Acknowledge Successes

Stop Comparing Yourself

Practice Self-Care

VALUES

How to Access Your Career Values

What Do You Want From a Job?

Career Satisfaction

Identifying Your Values

List of Possible Career Values

Passion or Purpose?

Stanford researchers: Follow your passion advice could make you less successful

Beyond A Career, Have An Awesome Life Purpose

Knowing to choose what battles to fight

Holding a firm and proper posture

Do not allow yourself to be limited

Fear diminishes and courage is gained

VALUES AND SELF-ESTEEM AND PURPOSE, OH MY!

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

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