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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services where you "Make your dreams your LifeWork".

When I was 10 years old, a relative asked me "What do you want to do when you grow up". My uninformed response locked me into a series of decisions over the next 30 years that might have been significantly different (better?) had someone asked me a few additional important questions.

Except for one 15 minute "counseling session" in college, I had never experienced any type of career development or career/lifework planning until I was 41.

In the 30 years between my graduation from college and early retirement, I changed jobs 13 times. It wasn't until I was 41 and had my 11th job change that I attended a career planning workshop and learned about the importance of making informed and considered career decisons. Just one simple activity of listing and prioritizing my values, interests, and skills and summarizing them on one page brought a clarity that I had never experienced before. That was the beginning of me taking responsibility for my career.

It was this awareness of the power of career planning and development to improve the quality of my work and life that I began to think of ways to share it with others. The result is this platform which I call LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS). LWPS's mission is to ...

  1. advocate for career development for all ages, (and encourage you to advocate to your family and friends to do career development),
  2. encourage you to a) follow the six (6) step career decision making process, and to b) copy and paste 1) to your paper notebook or journal, 2) on your computer, or 3) on your personal blog on the Internet, the collection of templates that we have been and are collecting on LWPS to assist you with your career/lifework planning and development,
  3. encourage you to organize your career/lifework planning work so you can easily and quickly locate what needs to be reviewed, reflected upon and revised - because this will be a lifelong process,
  4. encourage you to summarize all your career/lifework planning work onto one page so you can see at a glance who you are and what you want,
  5. and encourage you to first know yourself before you invest a lot of time searching for a job.

This last mission of encouraging you to know yourself has been identified as being extremely important by the following authorities (and others).

  1. Richard Bolles describes five (5) best and worst ways to hunt for a job. The most successful of the five best ways requires you to do "extensive homework on yourself", I.e. "Know yourself".
  2. The second step of America's Career Resource Network's (ACRN) 6-step Career Decision-Making Tool is "Know yourself".
  3. The first goal of the National Career Development Guidelines is know yourself.
  4. (Here are others who emphasize the importance of knowing yourself)

To know yourself (from a career/lifework planning point of view) means that you have created and you maintain a set of prioritized lists that identify what you love and/or like to do and what interests you, along with many other pieces of information that you will need when you do your lifelong career/lifework planning.

Click here to start this most important process of lifelong career/lifework planning.

Please click here if you are not certain of the value of this process.

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