Part 4 Value Elicitation - Finding the perfect job

We all have times when we want to change a significant part of our lives for the better or simply overcome a destructive habit, lose weight or negative mindset.  We may want to change careers, attract a fulfilling relationship into our lives or overcome a destructive habit such as smoking.  The first thing we need to do is find out what we truly value in our lives.  Values are our core beliefs, values are what we hold to be true is in our world and anything that conflicts with these strong beliefs will create tension and stop us moving forward or make us unhappy or unfulfilled.  Say for example you want to change career start with the following:

1. Make a list of 10 enjoyable job situations where you note down what you were doing (behaviour), what did that job give you (ie purpose, social interaction, etc) and why that job was important to you.


2. The next thing you to want find out is if all these values were present in a job what would be the thing that causes you to leave that job - you may come up with 1 or 2 values - these are the boundary conditions and these are also values that are important to you to include in your list.

3. Next number the list in terms of importance with number 1 being the most important to you. 

4.  You will end up with a hierarchy of values these are things that are important to you so if you went for a job where you worked alone and you had  'social interaction'  in your top 5 list of values, this job would be going against your values and you would probably find yourself on the look out for something else!


5. To make sure you get the job you want, bring these list of values with you to your job interview and check against them when completing your application form.

6. Now the last step once you have these list of values and you know what really is important, you have in effect a shopping list of things you want your job to be.  I want you now to imagine yourself in this job with at least the top 3 values present, step into that experience, seeing, hearing and feeling all the wonderful sensations when you think of these top three values.  You turn up these feelings, make the colours brighter and make sounds lounder.  Completely emerse yourself in this experience and you know how important these values are to you and this will make your feelings of motivation stronger and therefore you will put yourself in a positive, relaxed frame of mind and make it so much easier for the job of your dreams to become your reality!

7. You may want to repeat the experience before you go to sleep at night and you will find your unconscious mind will act on that experience in helping you to attract the job you really want!

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