Why do you work?
Is it for…the Money…the Challenge…the Passion…the Future?

We can learn …to live life purposefully …to work with meaning…
…to find what we love and to love what we do!!

ODYSSEY CONSULT.inc

Presents

“CAREER BREAKOUT”

...a take-charge life-changing experience…
You will leave this experience with:

?? A deeper awareness of your Life Purpose
?? An understanding of the critical connections between Work and Life Satisfaction
?? New insight into yourself and what you bring to the workplace
?? A clear appreciation of your Skills, Values, Work Orientation and Behavioural Style
?? A broadened perspective on appropriate and fulfilling Career Options
?? Practical Tools to make empowered work-life and career-change decisions
?? The Power and the Confidence to transition to more fulfilling workplace experiences
?? The Passion to take charge of your life and your future
Take this journey with us - reshape your career and create a new future for yourself!

For many, the reality of work today is characterised by
frustration, turbulence, uncertainty, excitement, expectation
and dashed hopes.

The ambiguity of workplace experiences, the apparent
availability of opportunities and the deep-seated
disappointment that many face are all manifestations
of our frequent inability to address the core issues of
Career and Life Satisfaction.

The fact is that few of us have been guided to develop
the skills or tools to manage our lives and our careers.
Without a life-philosophy and belief system and with
little or no sense of what contributes to life-success
and career satisfaction, most of us flounder through a
series of frustrating workplace experiences.

We seek after the ultimate package or position without
the requisite sense of purpose and passion to guide us.
We expend excessive energy in the vain hope that
“hard work” will “get us there”.

We are attracted by and respond to jobs and
organisations that appear appealing and headed in a
direction that suits us. But we seldom consider our life
direction and the extent to which the job or the
organisation are aligned to our true purpose.

Many of these dilemmas are tolerable and manageable
in our early years in the workplace. Our energy is
infinite - or so we think. We have time to make
changes – or so we think. We will find the “right job”
soon – or so we think. The job does not matter as
long as the package is right – or so we think.

Run and avoid it as much as we try, one day our faulty
assumptions and misguided decisions catch up with us.
We are face to face with the emptiness of a job that
does not satisfy, in spite of the perks and the position.
We get to a place where our quiet moments are
riddled with thoughts about the fact that our life has
been a failure, that our youthful dreams are about to
die and we are unlikely to accomplish the satisfaction
and success that we had hoped and longed for.
We have to confront the fact that our quality of life
and our life satisfaction are significantly reduced
because of our lack of awareness and knowledge
about the powerful connections between the self,
work, life and purpose.

It is never too late to discover who and what we really
are and to determine our Life Purpose. We can learn
to live life purposefully, to work with meaning and to
find what we love and to love what we do!!
It is possible to understand what work really is and to
approach it as a vehicle for living successfully and with
meaning.

We can discover, acquire and use the tools that help
us to define our Skill Base, to focus on our Values, to
determine our Work Orientation and Interests, to
mobilise the strengths of our Behavioural Style.
Armed with these tools, we can explore the World of
Work, understand its intricacies and opportunities and
make that most vital of decisions – zeroing in on the
kind of work that the world needs and that best suits
who we are.

The intention is not to “get the best job” but to Live
Our Best Life – to bring our gifts to the world, to do
our best work, to work with meaning, to have what we
need, to make a difference.

To walk this road requires courage. It means letting
go of many of our “old thoughts” about work and
about ourselves. It means stepping into our selves in
a way that we may never have before. It means
presenting ourselves to the world in a way that we
may have never dared to previously. It means setting
out on a pathway to discovery.

"The future is not a place to which we are going
- it is a place we are creating. The paths to the
future are not found, but made and the activity
of making them changes both the maker and the
destination."

We invite you to take this journey, to create a new
future for yourself!!

Date: Saturday 10th November, 2007
Venue: Chamber of Commerce, Westmoorings
Time: 8:30am – 4:30 pm
Facilitator: L. Anthony Watkins
Registration: TT$700.00
(Discounted group rates available)
For information visit www.odysseyconsultinc.com