Chapter 4
Focusing on the Elements of Your Life
In This Chapter
Making proactive lifestyle choices
Understanding the role of your work in your life
Sorting out your finances
Creating productive relationships
You probably spend a large proportion of your time at work. Or, if you’re not currently employed, you may spend a fair bit of time and energy searching for work. If you’re retired from a career or job, you may be in the process of redefining what can fill the gap that your work used to fill in your life. But the paid work that you do, or have done in the past, is only one aspect of what constitutes work for you over your lifetime. Your work as a parent, caregiver, volunteer and even your hobbies or interests are all facets of your natural drive to be involved in purposeful activity for your own or others’ benefit.
A helpful definition of work is that it is the context in which you use your skills and talents in some way to give and (often) receive something of value, whether monetary, in kind, for your own satisfaction or as a duty of care. Having a career on the other hand, ...
