Your Options are Choices so Choose What’s Really Important to You

Options and Choices Set You Free!

Let's say your options include starting a staffing company. What would you need to think about?

Take a good look at this list to help you decide when you choose your options.

Achievement
To accomplish things I feel are important
To reach the highest position in my field or organisation

Affection
To receive and share warmth, caring, companionship with my family,or with my friends and co-workers

Affiliation
To be liked by others and invited to join in with groups
To work closely alongside others; or be part of a team

Autonomy
To be able to act in accordance with my own rules and priorities To be free of close organisational supervision

Challenge
To be engaged in interesting, challenging work

Competence
To be respected for my competence, to have my abilities recognisedby others

Expertise
To become a respected authority in what I do
To achieve the highest excellence in my work

Family
To spend time with my family; to have harmonious family relationships
To contribute to the development of my children

Personal Growth
To develop my full potential; become a better and more rounded person; seeking to learn, change and develop myself

Health
Physical health, fitness, diet

Integrity
To be honest; to stand up for my beliefs

Leadership
To exert influence by example, to direct the efforts of others

Location
To live where and how I want to

Money
To be financially secure

Pleasure
To have fun; to enjoy my life and my work
Recognition
To have status; to earn the respect and recognition of others

Service
To help other people; to feel that I am making a contribution to thewell-being of others and improve society

Spirituality
Inner harmony; to be at peace with myself; to live by my religious beliefs

These will be important in different ways to different people, but if you consider what they mean to you and you alone, you will be able to choose your options on the basis of what's important to you.

Now you have decided what is important you need to add in how you can contribute to a new role and the decision about your options becomes so much easier.

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