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Design Your Relationship With Work

You are going to build your own deliberate, honest position on what work is for — not what it should be, but what you actually want it to be.

What work gives you

List up to five things your current or most recent job actually provides — be honest, not aspirational. Include money, structure, status, social contact, or anything real.

Rank your list

Number the five things from step 1 in order of importance to you right now. Which one would hurt most to lose?

1 (most vital)1 2 3 4 5

21 2 3 4 5

31 2 3 4 5

41 2 3 4 5

5 (least vital)1 2 3 4 5

Keep or release?

Sort each item into 'keep' or 'release' — things you want work to keep providing, and things you could let go. Then defend your hardest cut in one sentence.

Keep

Release

Your core design decision

Based on what you kept, write ONE sentence that honestly describes what you want your relationship with work to be. Do not write what sounds good — write what is true.

Stress-test it

Look back at step 2. Does your number-one priority actually appear in your sentence from step 4? If not, rewrite the sentence so it does. What is the weakest point in your design?

One concrete improvement

Name ONE thing you could do in the next thirty days to make your actual work life more consistent with the sentence you wrote in step 4.

Now I see its shape

Reduce your entire design to ONE word — the word that captures the relationship you are building with work. Then write one line explaining why that word, not another.

Why that word?

Discuss Share your word from step 7 with a partner — do they believe it fits you, or do they see a different word?

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