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There are currently over 70 communities in LWPS. Most of them have been created by Dr. Sally Gelardin, Dr. Ed Colozzi, and myself.¹ This post, the narrative and list below will highlight those that relate to the core purpose of LWPS. (Most of the other communities are important because they all deal with lifework/career planning issues.)

Most of the time, when you are logged into LWPS, you will be creating, reviewing, reflecting upon and revising your lifework/career planning posts in your personal blog. In the beginning, we will encourage you to view posts in the "New member!"² community to learn about the features and functions of LWPS, and to consider recommendations for posts we think you should create.

As your blog develops, we hope you will see how important it is for you to periodically review and revise key posts in your personal blog so they reflect who you are at that moment so you are prepared for those inevitable unplanned events³ and transitions⁴ in your life.

Soon after you join LWPS, we will recommend that you explore the Seven (7) life stages of CD⁵ community to read about NCDA's policy about age-appropriate career development (CD). Next we will recommend that you explore the LifeWork Planning process⁶ community to learn about an eight (8) step decision-making model. As your blog matures, we will then ask you to review the Dreams; Visions; Bliss; Your Voice⁷, and Destiny, and Spirituality communities.

Below is a little more descriptive information about each of the superscripted links above. (Each core community is under development and the per-centages (pp%) indicate their approximate level of completion. My posts that are less than 40% complete are private while I develop them.)

After you click each community link below you will notice changes in the right sidebar. The "Brief Description" box under "Profile Owner" and the list of "Members" will be different and unique to that community.

1. If you want to see Sally's, Ed's and my communities, just click on each name, then look in the right sidebar under "Owned communities".


2. New member!: (40%) Learn about the features and functions of LWPS, and consider recommendations for posts we think you should create. (See "LWPS help" link in upper right corner.)


3. Plan for and make your luck: (20%) Organized around Dr. Krumboltz's and Dr. Levin's book "Luck Is No Accident". Be prepared and "make the most of happenstance in our life and career." Study the ten (10) myths about planning your life and career.


4. Transitions: (20%) Share with other LWPS members your experiences of considering a transition, starting one, being in a transition and completing one.


5. Seven (7) life stages of CD: (20%) The development of any person's career takes place over most of his/her lifetime in seven (7) life stages according NCDA's policy about age-appropriate career development (CD)..


6. LifeWork Planning process: (20%) This is a variant of several well known multi-step decision making processes. This is probably the most important community in LWPS.


7. Dreams; Visions; Bliss; Your Voice: (20%) The motto of LWPS is "Make your dreams your LifeWork". Most of us got a glimpse of career planning when someone asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. Soon, we found oursleves imagining what we would do if we had all the money we needed and we began to dream of the perfect job. This community will take that dreaming thru developing our passions into visions and finding our voice and following our bliss until we discover our LifeWork and our destiny (20%). See also Dr. Ed Colozzi's community on Spirituality (40%).
   

You may also be interested in these communities.

1. LifeWork Portal: (20%) - Your LifeWork Portal post is where you collect of links to ALL of your posts so you can easily find them.


2. National Career Development Guidelines: (20%)


3. Career Information Delivery Systems (CIDS): (20%) When you start your job exploration, you will want to spend some time here learning the state-based Career Information Delivery Systems.


4. ePortfolios: (20%)


5. Career Development Forums: (20%)


6. Homeschooling: (20%)


7. Questions: (20%)

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• Site Map of posts related to the three (3) seeded webspaces created when someone registers.

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The National Career Development Association (NCDA), in their 8 page PDF document "Career Development: A Policy Statement of the National Development Association Board of (Adopted March 16, 1993; revised 2003)", has the following definitions. (NCDA gave me permission to create this html version.)

• "Career development" is the total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual.
  
• "Career" is the totality of work -- paid and unpaid -- one does in his/her lifetime.
  
• "Work" is sustained, conscious paid and/or unpaid effort, other than that having as its primary purpose either coping or relaxation, aimed at producing societally acceptable benefits for oneself and/or for oneself and others.
  
• "Drudgery" is involuntary effort to produce benefits for oneself and/or for oneself and others undertaken out of perceived necessity rather than personal choice.
  
• "Vocation" is one's primary work task at any given period of life.
  
• "Occupation" is one's primary work task in the world of paid employment.
• "Job" is an identified set of duties and responsibilities -- paid or unpaid -- assigned to be performed usually on a sustaining, ongoing basis by one person. "Position" is a set of competencies (skills and knowledge) required as a component of the overall mission of the agency, organization, or setting in which the position exists.
  

With these definitions, NCDA's conceptual view is that any given individual has only one "career" even though she/he changes occupations, vocations, positions, or jobs several times.

"Work" is the foundation in career development, and "... represents the need to do – to achieve - to know that one is needed by others and is important. Work is a major way for individuals to recognize and understand both who they are and why they exist in terms of making contributions to society that bring personal meaning and satisfaction to them. It is when persons regard what they are doing as work that productivity is maximized. Without work, the best a job can provide is economic security benefits -- which may not be enough to motivate the employee to perform in a maximally productive manner. The goal of career development is ensuring that the individual finds work as well as a job."

LifeWork is a special kind of "work" that rises out of your dreams. LifeWork elevates "work" to a higher emotional and spiritual plane where you fulfill your dreams or your destiny or what you were meant to be/do, or you find your "voice" or your calling or your soul's code.

Only a small per-centage of the world's population experience their LifeWork. The rest don't because they have not acquired the tools or taken the time to know themselves.

Self-assessment, self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-reflection, etc. is important, and essential/critical to learning what makes us tick. This takes time and discipline. LWPS (will) offer the tools and the place for you to do your self-assessment over your lifetime.

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LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) is a blogging platform that is divided into two types of blogs: personal and community.

A blog is a collection or concentration of posts. (More about posts.)

As an LWPS member, you have your own personal blog. No one but you can add a post to your personal blog, except an LWPS administrator.

You and others can create community blogs which will have a specific purpose or focus. (See this post for guidelines.)

Most community blogs are public and any LWPS member can post to them. You can create restricted community blogs and limit who can read it or add posts to it.

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Go to the next milepost of A blog is a collection of posts or return to this milepost you were in the Roadmap.   

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Your LifeWork is what you were meant to do, what gives you joy, and what satisfies your soul.

Please read the following before you decide to register.

LifeWork Planing Services (LWPS) is ...

1. a one-of-a-kind free (for basic services) e-learning social networking community blogging platform
2. where you will record, review, reflect upon and revise private, semi-private and/or public posts that contain key information about yourself (like "My values", “My interests”, “My accomplishments”, “My Functional Transferable Skills”, “My …”, etc.) that you will use in career/lifework planning activities to make considered and informed career decisions that will make your dreams your LifeWork. You will link all of the posts you create into your most important post called your "My LifeWork Portal" which may look like mine.

However, LWPS is not for everyone.

LWPS is only attractive (and therefore useful) to you if ...

1. you understand the subtle distinction between a job, an occupation, a career and what I call LifeWork, AND
2. job satisfaction, quality of life, work/life balance, knowing your calling, and making your dreams your lifework are important to you, AND
3. you know that one of the prerequistes to achieving that is 1) developing a deep understanding of yourself (values, interests, skills, etc.) and 2) making informed and considered career decisions, AND
4. you know that writing that information down and collecting it somewhere is the only effective path to that understanding and decision making, AND
5. you know that easy access to that information is critical so you can periodically review it, reflect upon it and revise it as needed, AND
6. you will consider or you are eager to share your lifework planning knowledge and experiences with others to assist them in their lifework planning activities, AND
7. (if you started one) you will consider converting or augmenting your paper portfolio into an electronic portfolio, AND
8. you have a strong interest in the Internet and enjoy using it (or are eager to learn), AND
9. you have or are considering creating accounts on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, etc., and you now see the need for your own personal blog for lifework/career planning activities, AND
10. you use your computer to access the Internet more than an hour a day (or you intend to soon), AND
11. you understand (or are eager to learn) a few basic html commands (hyperlinks, lists, etc.) to develop your blog including a one page summary of who you are at this instant, AND
12. you want all of this in one (free - for basic services) platform for the rest of your life, AND
13. you are willing to be patient with LWPS since it is a work-in-progress and constantly evolving, AND
14. if you are under 18 years of age 
    1. your parents approve and hopefully participate, and
       
    2. your parents are willing to let you use their e-mail address to receive e-mail notifications of comments to posts and announcements from LWPS, or they approve of you using your own e-mail address, and
       
    3. you have invited your school counselor to participate.

then LWPS may be right for you and you should check out the LWPS Roadmap where there is a link to the registration webpage.

If LWPS is not for you, we hope you will mark your calendar to visit us again in the future and we wish your the best.

If you are a registered LWPS member and have decided that LWPS is not for you, just add a comment to this post that says "Please delete my account".

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• "lifeworkps.com" main home page
• the Roadmap Before you register.
• About LWPS
• Getting started with your LWPS account
• The four (4) most important aggregating posts in your personal LWPS blog.
• Site Map of posts related to the three (3) seeded webspaces created when someone registers.
• How to use this Homeschooling community in LWPS

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The following organizations and people use the term "LifeWork" the same way we do, as we define it in the About LWPS post.

Organizations

• The College of Continuing Education at the University of Minnesota, plus a two (2) page PDF

Individuals

• yourlifework.com
  
• www.lifesworkllc.com/

  The mission of Life's Work is to encourage and help the motivated individual to discover his/her purposeful life, as manifested through vocation and/or avocation.
  
  One's life purpose, sometimes referred to as Calling or Destiny, is one's unique contribution to the world that uses the whole self fully and gives life passion, fulfillment and meaning. Those who elect to explore their life's calling are invited to take their unique journey.
  
  The journey itself is of supreme value and must be initiated by the individual, within an understanding, yet focused, coaching relationship.
  
  Central to the process of Life's Work is the development of consciousness and the emergence of an ethic based upon a respect for the mysteries and the vitality of the human soul (psyche).

  
  
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The following sites do similar things as LWPS

1. http://www.teachers.gov.uk/development/index.cfm?pageID=84

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If you wish to be listed here, please add a comment with the URL for the webpage that describes your definition of the term "lifework".

Please make that URL link a hyperlink. Here is a link to an LWPS Lesson describing how one creates a hyperlink in an LWPS post so that readers need only click on that hyperlink to jump to the website rather than cutting and pasting the URL into their browser.

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Google search for "lifework"

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Return to About LWPS where I asked this question, or click on the "About LWPS" link in the upper right corner..

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NavAgilty webiste

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Click to see Career View and Visual Resume from NavAgility

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TBA

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See a similar topic (also currently empty) in CD Forums (CF) about embedding a Podcast in a CF topic, as well as this topic about "Podcasting in Career Development: An NCDA Career Convergence article, by Chadwick Royal".

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If you are new to LWPS, click on this link to learn about the purpose and value of LWPS.

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Researcher/Manager sounds like a pretty good fit for you! Mine came up Identity Creator—no surprise there, either, and that was from the colors-only version. (“When you listen to others' hopes, fears and concerns, they discover on their own what’s best for them, as well. You give to others the gift of knowing who they are.”)
 
I’ve always been fond of color tests from Luscher in the 1960’s to the warmed over Jung/Myers-Briggs of today’s True Colors materials (http://www.truecolors.org/color_meaning.html). Is the Dewey Color system scientifically and cross-culturally valid? I rather doubt it, but it seems like a fun and non-threatening starting place to talk about hopes and dreams before dragging out the heavy duty LMI data. During training I’ve found that http://www.personalityquiz.net/shapes/ullazang.htm can be a great ice breaker because there’s an enthusiastic discussion of favorite designs and that leads into how everyone also has a preferred pattern of career interests.
 
There’s something to be learned from their online store, too (http://www.deweycolorsystem.com/colorstore/colorstore_alt.html )--we just push careers while they can help with careers, relationships, self-knowledge AND interior décor, wardrobe updates, picture framing, puzzles, greeting cards, and 15 stuffed animals to collect! Do we even offer 16 different T-shirts for the career clusters? Nope.
 
    Lola
 
 
Lola Lucas
IL Department of Employment Security
Illinois Career Resource Network
850 E. Madison  Third Floor
Springfield, IL  62702
(217) 785-1728
Lola.lucas@illinois.gov
www.ILWorkInfo.com/icrn
 
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From: ACSCI-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ACSCI-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Laurence Shatkin
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:42 AM
To: Laurence Shatkin
Subject: [ACSCI-L] color me skeptical
 
These are the results I got from trying the Dewey Color System Career Predictor. What you can't tell from these results is that the assessment also asked me about a few other matters, including my present occupational field and title and some occupational-choice pairs. (It also asked my height and weight!) But at the Web site you can also take an assessment based entirely on color preference.
 
Laurence Shatkin
10 River Knoll Drive
Titusville, NJ  08560-1304
phone: 609-737-8395
fax: 909-498-7898
e-mail: Laurence@myself.com
http://www.shatkin.com
 
 
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From: sales@deweycolorsystem.com [mailto:sales@deweycolorsystem.com]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:39 AM
To: Laurence@myself.com
Subject: Dewey Color System Career Predictor
Laurence Shatkin, based on our experience with many different professionals, your color preferences indicate that the occupations below best suit your personality and interests. Note also that a listed profession, never before considered, may seem off. For example, if you love to type, data entry operator might be listed as well, even though you want to be a fiction writer.
BEST OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORY
You're a RESEARCHER

Key Words: Independent, Self-Motivated, Reserved, Introspective, Analytical, and Curious

These investigative types gather information, analyze and interpret data, and inquire to uncover new facts. They have a strong scientific orientation, enjoy academic or research environments and prefer self-reliant jobs. Dislikes are group projects, selling, and repetitive activities.
RESEARCHER OCCUPATIONS
Suggested careers are College Professor, Physician, Psychologist, Pharmacist, Chemist, Marketing Research, Inventor, Sales Forecasting, Project Engineer, Dentist, Identifying Consumer Demand, Chiropractor, Dentist, Medical Technician, Optometrist, Research & Development Manager, Respiratory Therapist, Chiropractor, Veterinarian, Geologist, Physicist, Science Teacher, Medical Technologist, and Author of Technical Books.
RESEARCHER WORKPLACES
Tasks oriented careers where you can become absorbed in the job, be original and creative, and not conform to rigid company rules will work best for you. Unstructured organizations, for example, that allow you to sail your own ship are vital.
Suggested Researcher work places are universities and colleges, home office positions, medical facilities, computer-related industries, scientific foundations and think tanks, research firms, and design laboratories.

2ND BEST OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORY
You're a MANAGER
Key Words: Tactful, Cooperative, Generous, Understanding, Insightful, Friendly, and Cheerful
This very social type enjoys working in groups, sharing responsibilities, and being the center of attention. Fields of interest are instructing, helping, nurturing, care giving and instructing-especially young people. They discuss and consider feelings in order to solve problems, lead, direct, persuade, guide, organize and enlighten others.
 
CAREER FOCUS POWER
SELECT YOUR 5 MOST FUN CAREERS
Open your mind to see the possibilities, yet be conclusive. Flip-flopping is exhausting and makes you unsuccessful. Either skip over careers requiring a background or education that you do not currently possess, or consider making one of them a long-term career path.
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The Dewey Color System is now the world's first and only validated, color-based personality testing instrument. Sixteen personality factors including the five global factors of independence, anxiety, self-control, extraversion, and tough-mindedness can now be statistically predicted by color preference.
The patented system's ability to measure the connection between personality and distinctive color choices is revolutionary. Read further about our landmark statistical correlations, validation against the Strong Interest Inventory® (occupational and career interest) and the 16PF® (business and clinical) and scientific journal publications compiled by Dr. Rense Lange at deweycolorsystem.com.
The System statistically predicts, without language biases, occupations that create personal fulfillment and success. For example, are you struggling to know whether mathematics, medical science, art, writing, public speaking, law, sales, or organizational management might be the profession for you? If so, the Dewey Career Predictor will provide you with valuable information about which career is best for you!
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