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Finding Your Professional Purpose

10 Questions to a Fulfilling Career

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Language:  English
Discover your professional purpose through answering 10 powerful questions designed to help you re-think what work and fulfilment means to you.
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Content

This book helps you discover your professional purpose by introducing you to 10 powerful questions selected to help you re-think what work and fulfilment means to you. You’ll unpack each question in turn, learn from real life examples, and work through hands-on reflective exercises to come up with unique, radically honest answers.You’ll write your own professional positioning statement succinctly expressing what you have discovered about your professional purpose, which you can use in seeking a new role, a new career, or introducing yourself with authenticity at your next networking event.

About the Author

Eleanor Snare (they / them) is a multi-disciplinary writer, speaker, facilitator and creator specialising in raising ecological consciousness and reducing alienation through imaginative, embodied, accessible methods. Over the last decade they have supported hundreds of people to develop more fulfilling professional paths. Their own career sits at the intersection of education, empowerment and ecology, bringing together diverse wisdom to offer unique interventions for people and organisations who wish to create a more fulfilling, environmentally-conscious future.

  • About the author
  • Introduction
  1. What are you looking for?
    1. Understanding what professional purpose is
    2. Understanding your emphasis
    3. What you seek is seeking you
    4. Finding vs making purpose
    5. A good place to start
    6. Exercise
    7. Chapter summary
  2. What’s the point?
    1. We’ve all been there
    2. Why go to work?
    3. Cultural beliefs about work
    4. Radical alternatives
    5. Exercise
    6. Chapter summary
  3. How do you want to do this?
    1. What does normal look like?
    2. Secret messages
    3. Positive working principles
    4. Exercise
    5. Chapter summary
  4. Who are you working for?
    1. Being of service
    2. Who is receiving your service?
    3. Beware the Ego
    4. Exercise
    5. Chapter summary
  5. What do you like doing?
    1. What no-one asked you in school
    2. Pleasure, excitement and joy
    3. Understanding your needs
    4. Exercise
    5. Chapter summary
  6. What are you good at?
    1. Your innate talents
    2. Your learned skills
    3. The power of evidence
    4. Exercise
    5. Chapter summary
  7. Which path do you want to take?
    1. Tools vs Men
    2. Are you a perfectionist?
    3. A learner’s mind
    4. Exercise
    5. Chapter summary
  8. How would you describe yourself?
    1. The power of naming yourself
    2. You can be anything
    3. Living up to vs lying into your job title
    4. Exercise
    5. Chapter summary
  9. What’s the plan?
    1. There is no plan
    2. The vision
    3. The ‘next right step’
    4. Exercise
    5. Chapter summary
  10. So, what do you do?
    1. The joy of radical honesty
    2. Exercise
    3. Chapter summary
  • Conclusion
  • Table of figures
  • References
About the Author
Eleanor

Eleanor Snare