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Your career values are your guiding light, in good times and tough times. They underpin everything. Jobs will come and go, bosses and coworkers will come and go, but your values remain—and they are unique to you.

Remember, you have choices, and when it comes to your career you decide what matters most. I recommend documenting your career values using the following question prompts and reviewing and refining your responses several times a year. This makes your values a priority.

Your career values encompass the following core principles:

 Your achievements

 Your purpose

 Your inspiration

 Your style of work

 Your mission

 Your reputation

Career values provide the foundation for you to create goals that align with your purpose and principles. In chapter 9, you will find a worksheet you can use to save your responses to the following questions:

1 What matters most to you personally when it comes to your career?

2 What's on your must-have list when it comes to the work you do next?

3 What makes you feel excited and inspired about your work?

4 What motivates you to do your best work?

5 What are you naturally good at?

6 What would you love to do more of at work?

7 What energizes and excites you?

8 What type of environments do you want to work in?

9 What's your preferred work schedule?

10 Is there anything that's nonnegotiable for you at work?

11 What are the greatest accomplishments of your career?

12 What is it about the accomplishments that make them special for you?

13 What do you want your career to feel like?

14 What do you want to be known for?

15 How do you measure success?

When you start to think about your career values, your responses to the questions may require deeper and longer reflection, and your responses may change or evolve over time. There are no right or wrong answers and it's not a test. Your responses are for you to define. This is a space for you to consider what matters most in your career so that you can build a platform for goal setting and actions that will get you closer to where you want to be.