I recently met with my life coach and had a very interesting conversation. I always like to throw around ideas of other careers or businesses that I’d like to pursue in the future. When I talk about this topic, it always ends up at a dead end. I just can’t figure out what it is that I want to do when I grow up. I have a feeling that I’m not the only one in this position.

During our conversation she started asking me about all of the things that I value. Some of the things that I listed off included my marriage, my children, self-development, etc. I couldn’t quite figure out how my job and my values related, but I went with the flow!

After I had my list of values, my life coach had me think about my current job and see if it went along with my values. I scored each value between 0 and 5. 0 being it doesn’t meet that value at all and 5 being it completely meets that my value. For example, one of my values is my children. Do I feel like by having my job I’m able to spend time with my kids, be there for my kids, and everything else that goes behind what is important to me in order to value my children. Once you go through and score everything you can start to see if your current job is supporting what is most important to you in life. If it is not, then perhaps it may be time to start thinking about other possibilities that would more closely align with what is important to you in life.

If you have other ideas in your head about what you want to do, you can do this exact exercise and try to figure out if it too would be a fit to your value system. I think this has value in it and I’ll definitely be keeping it front of mind as I try to think of other possibilities for myself.