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How To Use Your Purpose To Help Others
What’s Inside this Book
Welcome to my book about how to use your purpose to help others throughout the chapters of your WorkLife story. Here is a preview of what’s inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these.
WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically.
Your WorkLife purpose is what gives your WorkLife meaning. It is the reason that will get you up in the morning, ready to take on each day with energy and motivation. You may need to dis- cover or rediscover what that is for you, and once you do, this will help guide you in living your WorkLife true to what is important to you.
In this book I tell five stories:
1. Discovering My WorkLife Purpose: My story of how losing my job led me to a work assignment, which in turn led me to discover my WorkLife purpose.
2. Rediscovering his Passion and Purpose: Arjun’s story of how WorkLife events took him away from his true path, and the journey he took to get back to where he knew he was meant to be.
3. Losing Sight of the Reason for My WorkLife Purpose: My story of how I was wandering aimlessly because I had lost sight of the reasons for my work; and how I regained my sense of purpose by getting clarity about what I was doing and why I was doing it.
4. A Meaningful Compliment Helped Restore Self-Belief and Purpose: Zeb’s story of how heartfelt words from someone he had never met before, resonated in a way that was meaningful, and brought him back to the reasons he does what he does.
5. A Life Saving Experience Leads to a WorkLife Purpose: Lulu’s story of how doing something that helped save her own life, led her to doing the same for other people, and in so doing she made a positive impact in other people’s wellbeing.
I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through:
WorkLife Purpose Assignment
This assignment is to help you discover or rediscover your WorkLife Purpose.
Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment
This assignment is to help you fine-tune your self-awareness about what is important to you in living a fulfilled WorkLife, in knowing what you want – or as importantly what you do not want in your WorkLife.
Develop a Practice of Insightful and Effective Self-Questioning Assignment
This assignment is to help you realise the importance of using questions to get to what really matters for you at every stage of your WorkLife, and to then use the information that comes to you through the answers to make that happen.
How to Keep Sight of Your WorkLife Purpose Assignment
This assignment is to help you understand the reasons you do what you do in your WorkLife - Your What and Your Why.
Think About the Most Meaningful Compliment You’ve Received Assignment
This assignment is to help you reflect on a compliment you’ve received that resonated because it spoke to a deeper meaning about what you do and why you do it.
Discover, Refine and Use Your Purpose to Help You Overcome Challenges Assignment
This assignment is to help you explore and discover what your purpose is, from a place of things you enjoy doing. Then to refine it through continuous learning and improvement. And to use this to help you overcome challenges you encounter in your WorkLife.
Welcome to my book about how to use your purpose to help others throughout the chapters of your WorkLife story. Here is a preview of what’s inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these.
WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically.
Your WorkLife purpose is what gives your WorkLife meaning. It is the reason that will get you up in the morning, ready to take on each day with energy and motivation. You may need to dis- cover or rediscover what that is for you, and once you do, this will help guide you in living your WorkLife true to what is important to you.
In this book I tell five stories:
1. Discovering My WorkLife Purpose: My story of how losing my job led me to a work assignment, which in turn led me to discover my WorkLife purpose.
2. Rediscovering his Passion and Purpose: Arjun’s story of how WorkLife events took him away from his true path, and the journey he took to get back to where he knew he was meant to be.
3. Losing Sight of the Reason for My WorkLife Purpose: My story of how I was wandering aimlessly because I had lost sight of the reasons for my work; and how I regained my sense of purpose by getting clarity about what I was doing and why I was doing it.
4. A Meaningful Compliment Helped Restore Self-Belief and Purpose: Zeb’s story of how heartfelt words from someone he had never met before, resonated in a way that was meaningful, and brought him back to the reasons he does what he does.
5. A Life Saving Experience Leads to a WorkLife Purpose: Lulu’s story of how doing something that helped save her own life, led her to doing the same for other people, and in so doing she made a positive impact in other people’s wellbeing.
I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through:
WorkLife Purpose Assignment
This assignment is to help you discover or rediscover your WorkLife Purpose.
Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment
This assignment is to help you fine-tune your self-awareness about what is important to you in living a fulfilled WorkLife, in knowing what you want – or as importantly what you do not want in your WorkLife.
Develop a Practice of Insightful and Effective Self-Questioning Assignment
This assignment is to help you realise the importance of using questions to get to what really matters for you at every stage of your WorkLife, and to then use the information that comes to you through the answers to make that happen.
How to Keep Sight of Your WorkLife Purpose Assignment
This assignment is to help you understand the reasons you do what you do in your WorkLife - Your What and Your Why.
Think About the Most Meaningful Compliment You’ve Received Assignment
This assignment is to help you reflect on a compliment you’ve received that resonated because it spoke to a deeper meaning about what you do and why you do it.
Discover, Refine and Use Your Purpose to Help You Overcome Challenges Assignment
This assignment is to help you explore and discover what your purpose is, from a place of things you enjoy doing. Then to refine it through continuous learning and improvement. And to use this to help you overcome challenges you encounter in your WorkLife.
48 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 9, 2020
About the author
Carmel O' Reilly
33 books3 followersCarmel O’ Reilly is the founder of School of WorkLife. She was born and grew up in Ireland, and now lives in Shoreditch, London.
Her work and subsequently her first book, Your WorkLife Your Way, and its companion workbook, focus on helping people live their best WorkLives by managing their learning, development and growth, through effective self-feedback, insightful questions and the ability to shape and tell their unique story.
Her School of WorkLife book series tells WorkLife stories of the obstacles, failures, and successes people encountered in their WorkLife. Each book includes the exercises that helped navigate these situations, which are presented as assignments for readers to work through and adapt to their challenging WorkLife situations.
Her books are designed to help you gain insight and inspiration in your chosen area of WorkLife, and then support you in achieving what is important to you in your WorkLife learning, development and growth. You will learn to take ownership of your strengths and potential, as well as assessing your challenges to determine where you are stuck, to then uncover solutions to move forward.
Her new book, WorkLife Book Club Volume One takes you on a journey through the streets of Shoreditch, East London, as the members share culinary experiences, while discussing WorkLife struggles and successes through the wisdom found in the books they read.
The premise behind the WorkLife Book Club book is that experiences we have in our WorkLife shape our understanding of the world. Stories help communicate truths about human behaviours and relationships, bringing an opportunity for change and development. Books help anchor WorkLife conversations through characters, plots and settings, enabling a range of issues to be worked through.
"My stated mission is to guide learning through reading. I also have a secret mission, which is to draw attention to stories of change and active decision making – people standing up and saying they want to do something different with their WorkLife. I want to highlight stories, books and discussions that focus on in-depth portrayals of subjects inner feelings, thoughts and motivations. While readers will not encounter the exact scenarios they read about, they will be able to use an increasingly finely tuned ability to understand and respond to multiple competing viewpoints." Carmel O' Reilly.
You can connect with Carmel through her website: https://schoolofworklife.com where you can sign up to receive stories that are grounded in the reality of real situations of the ups and downs people experience in their WorkLife. People's incredible stories designed to be helpful, insightful and inspiring. On her website you can also access Carmel's Learning Through Reading series - stories inspired by real WorkLife struggles and successes, presented as case studies for group discussion.
Her work and subsequently her first book, Your WorkLife Your Way, and its companion workbook, focus on helping people live their best WorkLives by managing their learning, development and growth, through effective self-feedback, insightful questions and the ability to shape and tell their unique story.
Her School of WorkLife book series tells WorkLife stories of the obstacles, failures, and successes people encountered in their WorkLife. Each book includes the exercises that helped navigate these situations, which are presented as assignments for readers to work through and adapt to their challenging WorkLife situations.
Her books are designed to help you gain insight and inspiration in your chosen area of WorkLife, and then support you in achieving what is important to you in your WorkLife learning, development and growth. You will learn to take ownership of your strengths and potential, as well as assessing your challenges to determine where you are stuck, to then uncover solutions to move forward.
Her new book, WorkLife Book Club Volume One takes you on a journey through the streets of Shoreditch, East London, as the members share culinary experiences, while discussing WorkLife struggles and successes through the wisdom found in the books they read.
The premise behind the WorkLife Book Club book is that experiences we have in our WorkLife shape our understanding of the world. Stories help communicate truths about human behaviours and relationships, bringing an opportunity for change and development. Books help anchor WorkLife conversations through characters, plots and settings, enabling a range of issues to be worked through.
"My stated mission is to guide learning through reading. I also have a secret mission, which is to draw attention to stories of change and active decision making – people standing up and saying they want to do something different with their WorkLife. I want to highlight stories, books and discussions that focus on in-depth portrayals of subjects inner feelings, thoughts and motivations. While readers will not encounter the exact scenarios they read about, they will be able to use an increasingly finely tuned ability to understand and respond to multiple competing viewpoints." Carmel O' Reilly.
You can connect with Carmel through her website: https://schoolofworklife.com where you can sign up to receive stories that are grounded in the reality of real situations of the ups and downs people experience in their WorkLife. People's incredible stories designed to be helpful, insightful and inspiring. On her website you can also access Carmel's Learning Through Reading series - stories inspired by real WorkLife struggles and successes, presented as case studies for group discussion.
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