How To Use Your Voice To Express And Protect Your Identity

Welcome to my book about how to use your voice to express and protect your identity throughout the chapters of your WorkLife Story. Here is a preview of what's inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these.

WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically.

Your voice comes from who you are and who you are not, and grows out of your identity, out your own unique brand. Your identity advances your brand because it is connected to your mind and heart, to how you think and feel about things. This is expressed through your authenticity, which is the foundation for everything, and is reflective of your personality.

In this book I tell five stories:

1. Speaking Up Why? A Simple yet Profound Question: Carlos's story of how asking the simple question "Why?" he opened up awareness to unacceptable behaviour.

2. Not Speaking Up What I Coulda Shoulda Woulda Said: Valerie's story of how a toxic environ- ment caused her to lose her voice, and how in time she regained it.

3. NotSpeakingUpAnd Why That's Sometimes OK Too: Petra's story of how other people's behaviour is about them, and how sometimes it's OK to walk away.

4. Knowing When to Say No More I've Had Enough and Calling it Quits: Mo's story of how he found the guts to say "I decide not to do this", as opposed to "I decided to keep pushing this along".

5. When You Know You Have to Fire Your Client, Your Collaborator Your Colleague from Your Work- Life to Protect Your Identity and Save Your Sanity: Tony's story of how as a freelancer he had to find the courage to fire a client who was derailing his WorkLife.

I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through:

Your Speaking Up Story Assignment
This assignment is to help you to tell your story of when you needed to speak up to protect your identity, and did.

Your Not Speaking Up Story: What You Coulda Shoulda Woulda Said Assignment
This assignment is to help you tell your story of when you needed to speak up to protect your identity and didn't; and what you can do to ensure the situation you experienced never happens to you again.

Your Not Speaking Up Story: But It Was OK Assignment
This assignment is to help you to tell your story of when you didn't speak up to protect your identity, and that was actually OK.

Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback Assignment
This assignment is to help you to develop a practice of being observant of people and situations, and how they impact your identity, to allow you to know when to speak up and what to say, and when not speaking up is a better way to be protect your identity.

Develop a Practice of Insightful and Effective Self-Questioning Assignment
This assignment is to help you to continue to go deep within yourself by asking insightful and effective questions.

Get Non Emotional Journalling Assignment
This assignment is to help you to ensure any decisions your make are rational.

Get Emotional Journalling Assignment
This assignment is to help you to fine-tune your emotional awareness to help you know what you want and need, or what you don't want or need.

Write Your Motto Assignment
This assignment is to help you to write the motto that will guide you in the decisions you need to make.

Ask One Important Question Assignment
This assignment is to help you to ultimately judge the value of your relatio

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