Own Your Story.
Get grounded in who you are before deciding where you're going.
Tactical choices - which roles, which résumé bullets, which salary line - get easier when they're anchored to what you actually want. This module looks backward and far forward before looking at next month, so every decision ahead has something to push against.
~2h · 5 exercises
- Your goal: get grounded in your values, your strengths, and the life you're building.
- Why it matters: anchored decisions hold up under pressure; performed ones don't.
- The move: look backward and far forward before looking at next month.
- My top 3 to 5 values are written, each with a line of meaning.
- My strengths are listed with evidence, each ticked Energizes or Drains.
- My rocking chair reflection exists in writing (a voice memo counts).
- My vision horizons are sketched: 3 years, 1 year, 6 months, 3 months.
- My chapter goals are drafted, dated, and pressure-tested, and my theme sentence exists.
Step by step
The lessons in this module
Work through each exercise in order. Every step has guidance, prompts, and a place to reflect — inside the hub or on paper.
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1.1 Core Values
~30 minName the 3–5 values you actually live by.
A **core value** is a principle that matters to you for its own sake - not because it gets you something else. It's why a job can look good on paper and still feel wrong.
**How to do this:** don't reach for what sounds impressive — reach for **what's already true** about how you spend your time and what you defend under pressure. If a word feels like a 'should,' cross it out.
List **~10 values** with one line on what each means to you. Then **cut**: put two head-to-head and ask which goes. A core value is one **you'd hold even when it costs you something**.
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1.2 Strengths & Energy
~30 minName what you're good at and which of those things give you energy.
Two questions sit underneath every good role decision: **what are you actually good at**, and **which of those things give you energy** instead of taking it. They are **not the same question**, and the gap between them is where a lot of wrong-feeling-right jobs come from.
This is a different question from the Transferable Skills Audit in Module 2. That one is about which skills travel to a new field. This one is about you, not the market.
**Start from real work.** Score energy against how tasks **actually felt**, not how they sound on paper. Then read the columns together — **the overlap is the whole point**.
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1.3 The Rocking Chair
~25 minYou're 90, looking back over your ideal life. Write freely.
You're 90, healthy, and content, looking back over your **ideal life**. Write freely — **fragments count**.
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1.4 Vision Horizons
~25 minWork backward from the rocking chair to now.
**Work backward** from the rocking chair to now. **Present tense and specific** — a sketch you'll revise beats a blank you're avoiding. If this much specificity feels overwhelming, just fill in one or two and come back.
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1.5 Career Transition Goals
~25 minDraft 2–3 goals with a month attached, then pressure-test.
Draft **2 to 3 goals** that align to the professional shift you're looking to make, **each with a month attached**. Then **pressure-test**: specific? measurable? realistic? aligned with the rocking chair view?
Finish with a one-line theme for this season - e.g. 'the year I stopped shrinking,' or 'build, don't wait.'
- The value that surprised you most: where is it currently being squeezed in your work life?
- Where do your strengths and your energy actually agree? Read your one-line read out loud.
- Say your theme sentence out loud. Does it still feel true a day later?
Ready to put pen to paper?
Download the full Career Confidence workbook with the worksheets for this module — or sign in to complete them inside the hub with your coach.