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<\/a><\/p>\n10 Questions that will make your work better in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n You will likely spend 2,500 hours at work in 2019.\u00a0 That\u2019s just about as many hours as you\u2019ll spend sleeping.\u00a0 Use these questions to evaluate your 2018 and build a happy New\u00a0Year at work in 2019<\/p>\n So how did you do in 2018?\u00a0 What were some of the ways you benefited those around you through the actual work you did and the way you went about your tasks?<\/p>\n What tweak or change can take your people-impact up to a new level in 2019?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n How do your \u201cwins\u201d match the achievements that you celebrate in your division and your firm as a whole?<\/p>\n How do they match your spiritual and personal values?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Where did you err in 2018 and what did you learn?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What are your greatest hard-wired abilities?<\/p>\n How are they needed and rewarded in what you do?<\/p>\n How will you lean into your talents more intensely in 2019?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Pick a grid and evaluate the health of your firm.\u00a0 You can use Phil Fischer\u2019s 15-factor list from his Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits\u00a0<\/em>or Greg Brenneman\u2019s 4-part grid from Right Away and All At Once.\u00a0 <\/em>Pick one and analyze your firm.<\/p>\n Read ten articles on your industry in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n Based on what you find, what dangers and opportunities lie ahead?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n When it comes to values and priorities, what about the culture at work is making you better?\u00a0 What about the culture at work is at odds with what you profess to be important?<\/p>\n When it comes to habits (patterns of relationship, tasks, rest, sleep, etc.), what about work is making you better?\u00a0 Which habits, if extrapolated ten years into the future, are not sustainable?<\/p>\n How do you evaluate these habits and values in light of God\u2019s call to each of us to continually surrender to the process of being made to be more like Christ?<\/p>\n How do you need to re-form yourself based on what you discovered under this question?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n How do you answer the balance question? \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Where does the concept of Sabbath fit in? \u00a0(24 hours of nonproductivity, worship, and rest).<\/p>\n What commitments do you need to make, to have the right work fit in 2019?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n What data do you need to see if job-loss could be a possibility for you?<\/p>\n What\u2019s your financial plan for a hiatus in income (how much do you need, how much do you have, what expenses can be cut?)<\/p>\n What do you need to do, to be ready to search (resume, LinkedIn profile update, a top-10 list of people to contact for information interviews)?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Every job is temporary. Someday, you will not work where you work; you will not see the people you currently see. After it is over, your colleagues will give you a sentence.\u00a0What do you want them to say?<\/p>\n How does this question relate to the visibility of your faith? \u00a0Would your work neighbors be surprised to know that you are a Christ follower? \u00a0Why? \u00a0Why not?<\/p>\n This question can help you dial into whether your current reputational trajectory is the one on which you want to leave. \u00a0\u201cCaring, competent, responsible?\u201d \u201cObnoxious, self-absorbed, isolated?\u201d How will you be described? \u00a0How do you want<\/em> to be described? \u00a0What needs to change for you to feel peace and appropriate pride over your tenure at your current firm?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What will be your first 15 moves of 2019 at work? \u00a0As you consider tasks, relationships, skills, roadblocks, and habits\u2014what should be at the top of your priority list to begin a productive New Year?<\/p>\n How will you follow the biblical instructions to \u201ccommit your plans to the Lord\u201d and seek a \u201cmultitude of counselors where we find wisdom?\u201d<\/p>\n How will having a winning game plan impact the energy and confidence you bring to work with you in the New Year?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Making the Big Better<\/strong><\/p>\n Work is the biggest \u201cthing\u201d in our schedule.\u00a0Intentionally evaluating our 2018 with a view towards growth in 2019 will make your work better.<\/p>\n For those of us who are people of faith, we can invite God into this evaluation process through prayer and counsel, asking him to help us to become all that he has made us to be\u2014both in the victories and the failures, both through insights and emotional strength to be more focused and disciplined in 2019 than we were in 2018<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 10 Questions that will make your work better in 2019. You will likely spend 2,500 hours at work in 2019.\u00a0 That\u2019s just about as many hours as you\u2019ll spend sleeping.\u00a0 Use these questions to evaluate your 2018 and build a happy New\u00a0Year at work in 2019 How did I positively impact people this past year? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purpose-of-work","category-work-skills"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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<\/a>Dr. Chip Roper<\/strong>\u00a0writes\u00a0Marketplace Faith<\/em>\u00a0from New York City, where he is the Founder and President of the VOCA Center. \u00a0 Chip is passionate about\u00a0making work better by empowering clients with a keen sense of vocational identity. \u00a0 In service of this vision, Dr. Roper provides coaching, training, and consulting to individuals and organizations in NYC and beyond. \u00a0Download information about his work as an executive coach<\/a> and VOCA\u2019s Calling Discernment Program <\/em><\/a>visit our faith-based website at vocacenter.org<\/a> and our market-facing menu of services at www.vocacenter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"