We - the LWPS team - realize that new LWPS members have limited time to learn about and explore LWPS. So we decided to "seed" your account in three (3) places in order to give you a quick overview of LWPS and its features and functions.

Links to the template posts for those three (3) seeds are listed below. We extracted key links in those three (3) posts and listed them below as a mini "Site Map".

1. Seed One (1): Text in a post in my personal blog
   1. Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?
   2. About LWPS
   3. Getting started with your LWPS account
      1. How to navigate LWPS and not get lost
      2. Is LWPS for you?
      3. Create posts
      4. LWPS Help
2. Seed Two (2): Text in my Brief Description (BD) box
   1. Develop a very important webspace - your "Brief Description" - by adding links to key posts that are important to you and others
   2. My LifeWork Portal
      1. My LifeWork Plan
      2. My LifeWork Profiles
      3. My LifeWork ePortfolios
   3. "Aggregating" posts: What they are and why you should create them?
   4. Key related LWPS communities
   5. Are your LifeWork Plans, ePortfolios, Profiles and Portal posts up to date?
      
3. Seed Three (3): Text in the "Who am I" section of my Profile
   1. Protecting your personal information
   2. Complete a few sections of your personal LWPS profile - "Your Profile"

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LWPS is a collection of many personal and community blogs and each blog is a collection of posts.

The right sidebar for each blog is unique.

It will contain a unique "Brief Description box" in the upper right corner followed by a unique list of members or friends.

You are currently in the "New member!" community blog which is one of over 70 communities in LWPS. The right sidebar will be unique for this and each community blog.

There are also many personal blogs. The right sidebar for each will also be unique for each personal blog.

Most LWPS users will only add posts to their personal blog. A few will create and maintain posts in communities - some of which they may create/own.

As you explore and navigate around LWPS, you will most likely jump to different personal and community blogs. When this happens, the information and links in the right sidebar will also change. Most often, you will not need to pay attention to the right sidebar. But sometime, the post may ask you to look at it, and you should review it to see if there are any links you want to explore further.

 

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to

• How to navigate LWPS and not get lost

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Get a copy of "What Color Is Your Parachute?"(WCIYP) and rather than using paper to record each of the activities in the book, create a post for each in your personal blog. Editing a post is much easier than editing a piece of paper, and everything you do is collected on the net for easy access.

If you don't have enough money to buy a new copy of WCIYP, borrow a copy from a friend, relative, neighbor, your school or county library, or buy a used copy. This link will take you to an Amazon.com results page from a Google search for "What Color Is Your Parachute?" and you can get a good used copy for $.01 plus $3.99 shipping or a total of $4. Although WCIYP is updated annually, the "meat" of what Mr. Bolles offers is essentially the same.

I recently purchased the 2008 version of WCIYP. And I am basing many career/lifework planning activities aroudn that version. Where a post refers to teh 2008 version I add the tag "WCIYP 2008".  

I've added the tag "WCIYP" to each post that I have created that I recommend you create. Just click on that tag then click on my picture.

If you only have a few posts in your personal blog, you only need to click on "Your Blog" in the upper left to see them.

However, when you create many posts and some are in LWPS communities, you will want to use of or more of the following methods to find them easily.

1. Add tags to the "Keywords" section of each of your posts that you will remember when you do a search.
   1. Add your initials. After you add your initials to you next post, LWPS automatically converts it into a hyperlink. You can then click on that tag/keyword/hyperlink of your initials and see ALL of your posts, even in other LWPS communities. This is an excellent tool for managing your posts.
      
2. In a later Roadmap milepost, we'll take about "aggregating posts" which are used to collect links to related posts. 

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Go to the next milepost of The distinction between a job; an occupation; a career; work and what I call LifeWork" or return to this milepost in the Roadmap. 

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Instructions:

1. Click on this link to learn how to COPY/PASTE this post into your personal blog.
2. Click on this link to learn how to personalize this post.
3. Please save your version of this post with a "Public" access restriction so all can view it.
4. Delete these instructions. 
   

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I found LWPS ...

I hope to ... 

 

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If you have an improvement for this template, please add a comment.

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The following quotes were taken from Sandy Grason's "Journalution: Journaling to Awaken Your Inner Voice, Heal Your Life, and Manifest Your Dreams".

1. Cover: "Journaling is one of the most powerful tools we have to transform our lives. Let Sandy Grason's Journalution guide you in creating a joyful and abundant life." - Deepak Chopra, author of Book of Secrets.
2. p3 - "The only way to compose myself and collect my thoughts is to set own at my table, place my diary before me, and take my pen into my hand." - John Adams, March 1770
3. p71 - "If you dump your concerns out on teh page, they begin to lose their power over you."
   
4. p90 - "... after I dumped my emotions on the paper, answers came from somewhere ..."  
   

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(This post is a work in progress: 40% complete. Some linked posts are not complete.)

To find this post again, type RM, road, map, or roadmap in the "Search" box in the upper right, or type "lifeworkps.com/new" in your browser window then click on the LWPS "roadmap" link in the right sidebar.

Click on each of these eight (8) mileposts in the LWPS roadmap below.

1. Before you register
2. Creating your first post in your personal blog
3. An overview of the LWPS process and product
4. Creating your "My LifeWork Portal" post - the most important post in your blog
5. Modifying your "seeded" "Brief Description" to link to your portal
6. Which posts to create first?
7. Your lifelong lifework planning
8. What's next?

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Before you register

1. If ...
   1. you agree with the statements made in the post Is LWPS right for you?, AND
   2. when appropriate, you will offer pro-bono non-proprietary recommendations to improve LWPS templates and processes for the benefit of all LWPS members, AND
   3. you will make proportionate contributions to LWPS based upon the value you receive from LWPS,
   4. THEN click here to register for your LWPS blog.

After you register, go to Creating your first post in your personal blog below.

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Creating your first post in your personal blog

We encourage you to (re-)read the post how to navigate LWPS and not get lost.

You will create and develop most of your posts in your personal blog and a few in community blogs that interest you. But first, read these posts for an overview of LWPS.

1. The anatomy of an LWPS webpage.
   
2. LWPS is a collection of personal and community blogs.
3. A blog is a collection of posts.
4. The anatomy of a post.

Now, read these posts to learn how to create your first post, modify it, link to it and find it.

1. Create and modify a post in your personal blog.
2. Access that post with a hyperlink - the workhorse of the Internet.
3. How to find a post you created.

You now know the building blocks to develop lifework/career planning posts in your blog and to organize them for easy access.

The next set of posts will provide a brief overview of the LWPS process and what we recommend you develop from that process.

But before we go there, we invite you to (re-)read this post about the subtle difference between career development/planning and lifework/career planning?

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Right sidebar

As we mentioned above, LWPS is a collection of personal and community blogs. As you explore LWPS, you will venture into different communities and maybe perosnal blogs of other LWPS members. When you do, information in the right sidebar will change. You will see that happen more often from this point on. Please read this post to learn more about this.

An overview of the LWPS process and product.

There is educational, social, and economic value of considered and informed career decisions that are a product of a career development process. The lifework/career planning process enhances that process through the collection, development and use of posts in your personal blog that document those decisions you made and the information you used to make them.

1. Understanding "considered and informed career decisions".
2. "Knowing Yourself" by creating posts about your values, interests and skills.
3. Organizing and integrating all of your posts together for easy access.
4. Reviewing, reflecting, revising, and reintegrating (4Rs) what you have written.

The lifework/career planning product is the set of posts you create that represent who you are and what you want.

Now you will learn more about the most important post in your blog which will tie all of this together. It is called your "My LifeWork Portal".

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Creating your "My LifeWork Portal" post - the most important post in your blog.

1. What is an aggregating post?
2. What is a "My LifeWork Portal" post and why is it important?
3. Creating and developing your "My LifeWork Portal" post.

You should now have in your personal blog the four (4) most important APs in your blog, and a few other posts you created in the steps above.

Now you will tie them all together from ONE very important part of your personal blog called your "Brief Description" area.

Every post you create should be accessible from at least one aggregating post which ultimately is accessible from one of the four (4) most important APs or their subordinate APs in your blog.

All posts should have "parents". Your "great-great-grandfather" post is your "My LifeWork Portal" which should be one click away via your "Brief Description" area.

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Modifying your "seeded" "Brief Description" to link to your portal.

If you registered for an LWPS account after March, your Brief Description" area was "seeded" to show you what was possible in that very important webspace.

1. What is a "Brief Description" (BD) and why is it important?
2. Change, develop and maintain your BD area(s)

So far you have used this LWPS Roadmap to ....

1. create a few posts,
2. create an aggregating post like your "My LifeWork Portal" (LWP) to collect, organize and easily access all fo your posts, and
3. changed links in your Brief Description to permit one-click access to your LWP and other key posts

You should now be thinking about what other posts you should create.

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Which posts to create first?

As I said above, your "My LifeWork Portal" post should be the most important post in your blog because it contains a link to every key post you will use to do your lifework planning. Therefore, I highly recommend you review my "My LifeWork Portal" to get ideas for posts you might want to create. I encourage you to COPY and personalize it.

1. If you are in a hurry, because you need to find a new job, create this post My job search strategies first.
2. If you are not in a hurry, I recommend you use the following templates to create these posts in the order listed.
   1. My Joys
   2. My Passions
   3. (tba)
   4. "My Job Search Plan"

Now let's talk about your lifelong lifework planning.

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Your lifelong lifework planning

1. After you log into your account, check for recent activity and viewed recent posts of all of your friends, you should resume your lifework planning by clicking on the link to your "My LifeWork Portal" post in your BD and start a new cycle of review, reflection, and revision and reintegrate (if necessary), and create new posts as needed always asking the question "Is this who I am or what I want at this instant?".
2. When and how often you do your lifework planning is a personal decision and is based upon your current situation. I continue to believe that the best time to do this is when you are happy with your current work/job and not when a transistion is possible, emminent or taking place. Get out your calendar and schedule an appointment with yourself to do the 4Rs.
3. Consider sharing what you've learned and help others to "find their voices". When you learn something new that might help others, post it (either in your blog or in an appropriate community) and save it with an AR of Public.

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What's next?

1. in the upper right corner.
   1. Learn about basic and advanced functions and features; click on the "LWPS Help" button
   2. Review "About LWPS".
   3. Make a contribution; click on the "Tip Jar" button, and "LWPS Help" buttons in the upper right corner and review those posts.
2. Review "Key related LWPS communities".
3. GA for your key interests
4. Work on your ePortfolios

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Link = LWPS "Roadmap"

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