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Module 01Week 1Ground

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

A leather journal open on warm linen with a coffee cup and dried grasses in morning light
Objectives
  • 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.
You're done when
  • 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.

  1. 1

    1.1 Core Values

    ~30 min

    Name the 3–5 values you actually live by.

    **Your output:** 3–5 values you can use to make career decisions.

    **Step 1:** Choose 10 values from the starter list. Add one sentence about what each means to you.

    **Step 2:** Compare two values at a time. If you could keep only one, which would you keep? Record the winner in your final list.

    **Step 3:** Repeat until 3–5 values remain. Keep values that already guide your choices—not words that feel like a 'should.'

  2. 2

    1.2 Strengths & Energy

    ~30 min

    Name 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.

    **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**.

  3. 3

    1.3 The Rocking Chair

    ~25 min

    You'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**.

  4. 4

    1.4 Vision Horizons

    ~25 min

    Work 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.

  5. 5

    1.5 Career Transition Goals

    ~25 min

    Draft 2–3 goals with a month attached, then check each one.

    **Your output:** 2–3 dated goals and one theme for this season.

    **Step 1:** Use your Vision Horizons for timing and your Rocking Chair reflection for alignment. Draft each goal with a month attached.

    **Step 2:** Check each goal: Is the result specific? Can you tell when it is done? Is the timing realistic? Does it support the life you described in 1.3 and the next step you named in 1.4?

    **Step 3:** Write a one-line theme for this season, such as 'build, don't wait.'

Reflect before moving on
  • 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.

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Define Your Direction