These feature in everyone's lives. Listing them is important. The individual items can then be examined to determine the degree to which each constraint exists and a conclusion can be reached as to whether it really is an obstacle or can be circumnavigated by adopting a particular strategy or attitude or acquiring more accurate information. In other words, the boundaries of our personal decision making. They can then plan their exploration and carry out action steps to alter a worklife situation which is proving unsatisfactory or inhibiting fulfilment, or change from unemployment to being appropriately employed where what we do is matched with our uniqueness.
Many clients require a larger database before planning can take place and they can make decisions.
Hence, the Worklife Methodology for Levels 2 and 3 utilises publications designed as workbooks with questionnaires and inventories requiring many hours of use and data collation and contemplation. These provide a structure for clients' thinking and acting. The myriad of facts and experiences of the lives they have led need to be segmented. Clues may be buried in the depths of their memory, even in their subconscious. A structure may prise them out into the open for considered review and for evaluation of whether they should be incorporated in their career planning and subsequent career actions.