Creating a Life Work Objective lifeworktransitions.com What do you most want to do? Where will you be best supported physically, emotionally and spiritually? Who do you want to work for and with? Why do you want to work? I want to use my ___________________skills to_________________in a ____________________________company/organization where my colleagues are ____________________________, my work space is ___________________, and my values of __________________________will be fulfilled.   Sample life work objectives: I want to use my advising and counseling skills to help people with health related issues in my own business where my colleagues are other independents, my work space is at home in a newly renovated guest room and my values for family, autonomy, and helping society will be honored. I want to use my accounting and interpersonal skills to help clients with financial planning in a small consulting firm where my colleagues would include a lawyer and a financial analyst, my work space would be cheerful and organized, and where by values of working with others, profit gain and recognition would be fulfilled. I want to use my organizational and planning skills to efficiently manage employees and the production of new computer applications in a fast paced high tech company, where my colleagues are smart, laid back and lots of fun, my work space is centrally located so that I can always know what is going on, and my values of profit gain, knowledge and leadership will be fulfilled.

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