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How To Build Your Personal Brand Identity
What’s Inside this Book
Welcome to my book about how to live true to who you really are 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.
Living true to who you really are requires you to search fearlessly to bring out your truth, to be truthful to who you are at all stages of your WorkLife: the truth of your character, and your truth as a human being.
In this book I tell three stories:
1. Wearing the Mask of Chief Financial Officer All the Time Hiding Her Truth of Who She Really Was: Mary’s story of how she kept who she was outside of work hidden, and how when she finally shared her real truth she was able to throw away her mask and live her WorkLife true to her values and purpose.
2. Am I the Right o rWrong Person to be Running the Company?Roger’s story of how he was questioning if he was genuine or if he was a fraud; and how an interview led him to recognise and take ownership of his success driven by the unique strengths of his soft skills: curiosity and creativity.
3. Getting Back to Who I Used to Be –Back to M yTrue Self: Lori’s story of how she went from somebody who everybody was drawn to – a magnetic visionary – to a horrible leader that nobody wanted to work with; and the wake-up call that began her journey back to her true self.
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:
Understanding Your Truth Assignment
This assignment is to help you to tell your story of your unique truth.
The Power of Opposites Observation Assignment
This assignment is to help you to identify what is good and what is bad in your WorkLife. What you want to keep and what you want to let go of. What you want and what you don’t want.
Getting to Your Deeper Truth Assignment
This assignment is to help you uncover your deeper truth, to enable you to begin to make the necessary changes to live your truth at all stages of your WorkLife.
Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment
This assignment is to help you realise everything you need is within you. Finding your innermost truth is the key to unlocking and achieving your true potential. Then and only then will you be able to be truly alive in the WorkLife you choose to live.
Develop a Practice of Insightful and Effective Self-Questioning Assignment
This assignment is to help you to continue to go deep inside yourself by asking insightful and effective questions, and to then reflect on the feedback you receive through the answers to get to the truth of what really matters for you at every stage of your WorkLife.
Challenge the Voices in Your Head Assignment
This assignment is to help you to challenge what the conflicting voices in your head are saying, to get to what is true for you.
Change the Story in Your Head Assignment
This assignment is to help you to change your story by changing your actions. To become what you do.
What is Stopping Me from Being True to Who I Really Am Assignment
This assignment is to help you to recognise the times when you get in your own way, and to push beyond this to get back to your true self.
Journalling Assignment
This assignment is to help you to gain perspective and to preserve the ability to fulfil all of the roles integral to your WorkLife.
Welcome to my book about how to live true to who you really are 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.
Living true to who you really are requires you to search fearlessly to bring out your truth, to be truthful to who you are at all stages of your WorkLife: the truth of your character, and your truth as a human being.
In this book I tell three stories:
1. Wearing the Mask of Chief Financial Officer All the Time Hiding Her Truth of Who She Really Was: Mary’s story of how she kept who she was outside of work hidden, and how when she finally shared her real truth she was able to throw away her mask and live her WorkLife true to her values and purpose.
2. Am I the Right o rWrong Person to be Running the Company?Roger’s story of how he was questioning if he was genuine or if he was a fraud; and how an interview led him to recognise and take ownership of his success driven by the unique strengths of his soft skills: curiosity and creativity.
3. Getting Back to Who I Used to Be –Back to M yTrue Self: Lori’s story of how she went from somebody who everybody was drawn to – a magnetic visionary – to a horrible leader that nobody wanted to work with; and the wake-up call that began her journey back to her true self.
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:
Understanding Your Truth Assignment
This assignment is to help you to tell your story of your unique truth.
The Power of Opposites Observation Assignment
This assignment is to help you to identify what is good and what is bad in your WorkLife. What you want to keep and what you want to let go of. What you want and what you don’t want.
Getting to Your Deeper Truth Assignment
This assignment is to help you uncover your deeper truth, to enable you to begin to make the necessary changes to live your truth at all stages of your WorkLife.
Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment
This assignment is to help you realise everything you need is within you. Finding your innermost truth is the key to unlocking and achieving your true potential. Then and only then will you be able to be truly alive in the WorkLife you choose to live.
Develop a Practice of Insightful and Effective Self-Questioning Assignment
This assignment is to help you to continue to go deep inside yourself by asking insightful and effective questions, and to then reflect on the feedback you receive through the answers to get to the truth of what really matters for you at every stage of your WorkLife.
Challenge the Voices in Your Head Assignment
This assignment is to help you to challenge what the conflicting voices in your head are saying, to get to what is true for you.
Change the Story in Your Head Assignment
This assignment is to help you to change your story by changing your actions. To become what you do.
What is Stopping Me from Being True to Who I Really Am Assignment
This assignment is to help you to recognise the times when you get in your own way, and to push beyond this to get back to your true self.
Journalling Assignment
This assignment is to help you to gain perspective and to preserve the ability to fulfil all of the roles integral to your WorkLife.
46 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 17, 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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