How to Craft a Fulfilling Career

The disconnect between our stated values and our actual behaviours is called an "integrity gap."

These gaps often emerge gradually, when we find ourselves making incremental values trade-offs that begin to erode our sense of personal integrity. If we are burned out or have an integrity gap, it is time to make some hard career changes.

• Check in with yourself about what motivates you and what you consider to be most important in your life.
• Create an activity-by-activity list of how you spend your time.
• Label each activity by whether you consider it an "energy creator," "neutral" or "energy reducer".
• At the end of the month, pull out the audit and look for trends.