Career check-in
- What is working?
- What feels stuck?
- What would you change if you could change only 10%?
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Work & Purpose
Work takes up a large share of a life. These pieces help you think clearly about what you do, why you do it and whether it is time to change.
In this section
Five areas, each with guides, exercises and reading lists.
01
Career
Navigating promotion, plateaus and the quiet years in the middle of a working life.
Test a direction02
Purpose
Less a single calling, more a direction you can adjust. A practical way to look for it.
Clarify values04
Work-Life Balance
Where the boundary actually leaks, and how to patch it without leaving your job.
Check your balanceCheck where work is taking you
Five short prompts for career direction, purpose, boundaries, change and creativity.
Purpose without pressure
- What do I care about?
- What am I good at?
- What do I want more of in my week?
- What small experiment could test that direction?
Work-life boundary audit
- When does work usually spill into personal time?
- Which boundary leaks most?
- One rule to test for 7 days
Career-change test
- Talk to one person doing the job.
- Try one small project.
- Take one short course.
- Note what you liked and disliked.
Creativity prompt
Make something for 20 minutes with no plan to publish, optimise or monetise it.
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Reading, values work and experiments for career change, creativity and purpose.
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