Who are you at your CORE?
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
~ George Eliot
Do your truly know yourself? Are you living a life that is more in tune with your “authentic” self (who you were created to be) or your “imagined” self (who the world expects you to be)? Decebalus (above) seems to have both known who he was, and what he wanted others to know about him. If you want to know who you truly are at your core, I am excited to announce that I am now a certified CORE Multidimensional Awareness Profile® (aka CORE MAP) facilitator.
My excitement stems from the fact that this is a concrete assessment that is truly multidimensional and integrated. This profile is robust enough to uncover conditioned effects, reveal the authentic you and provide specific feedback for rapid, highly efficient development. CORE gets to the root of what has been holding you back and preventing you from achieving the outcomes you are after both personally and professionally.
The CORE profile doesn’t just deal with the surface answers of where you happen to be today, the way traditional personality assessments do as with the Myers-Briggs test or the DiSC®assessments do,or say “here’s what you are, so this is what you should do.” It actually looks at how you would behave in an ideal world! How cool is that?
I have been searching for such a tool for a long time, especially for my academic and career transition clients, to help them both truly know themselves, and give them a measurable way to see the progress they have made over time. Most of us know the quote from Shakepeare’s Hamlet: “This above all: to thine own self be true,” but do you remember the next bit? “And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any [hu]man.”
This system recognizes that the issue is not necessarily ability, but how much energy or effort it takes to maintain what we are doing. People who focus upon and develop that which naturally motivates and energizes them quickly become much more effective and satisfied in every area of their life. Working with your nature is like floating downstream. It’s easy, it’s fun and you can enjoy the scenery along the way.
Through my youth and the first half of my life, I struggled a lot to figure out who I was. I defined myself in relationship to others and what I was good at, but not necessarily what I wanted to learn and do. I was a “reliable” friend, “hard” worker, “reasonable” mother, and “good” wife. Trying to figure out who I really was, and what I really wanted to do, was pretty tricky. Once my two girls left home, I had to knuckle under and figure out a few things about myself. It took 50 years of my life to find the life I have now, where I feel that what I do every day matches with what I am meant to do in this world. When it comes to finding the authentic self, that treasure is sometimes buried much deeper than we think. With a tool like the CORE profile, I could have gotten there a lot faster.
The other reason I am excited to offer this assessment is that CORE takes a “whole brain” approach. Many of you know I have spent a good bit of time researching “coaching with the brain in mind” to understand why this accountability process works so well, especially for academics who often have a naturally skeptical approach to this kind of work.
I want you to succeed and to love your work. There is passion, excitement, and confidence to be found as well as incredible satisfaction with your calling once you are truly on the path to a vibrant life. Working with your nature makes a career path seem like play. You truly enjoy what you do, there is a passion connected to your work, and you quickly become very good at it. That’s because nature itself jumps in to help you succeed
If you want your life at work to be as pleasant as your life at play, you owe it to yourself to invest in the CORE Multidimensional Awareness Profile and the Career Guide. Discover your CORE self and live your authentic life!
