Career Alignment:
Love It, Like It, Leave It Behind!
Discover the Work You’re Truly Meant to Do
A simple, powerful framework to evaluate your career history, identify what drives your fulfillment, and make smarter, more profitable career decisions.
Career decisions get messy when everything feels tangled together. This tool cuts through the noise. The Career Alignment: Love It, Like It, Leave It Behind! framework helps you analyze every task, responsibility, and duty you’ve handled across your career and categorize it based on how it made you feel and how well it aligned with your strengths. You’ll understand what energizes you, what drains you, and where you should focus moving forward. This is the first step toward building a career or business that actually supports your goals, not burns you out.
How This Works:
The tool organizes your past responsibilities into three buckets:
Love It
These tasks energized you and aligned with your natural strengths. They felt fulfilling and enjoyable, even when they were challenging.
Like It
These tasks were manageable and tolerable. They didn’t excite you, but they didn’t drain you either.
Leave It Behind
These tasks weighed you down. They felt misaligned with your skills or values and often caused stress, overwhelm, or frustration.
Why This Works:
This exercise forces a holistic view of your career—not job by job, but task by task. Patterns emerge. Values become clear. You gain evidence, not guesses. This clarity becomes a guide for:
Choosing the right job or career path
Pivoting into roles that fit your strengths
Knowing what to outsource or delegate
Identifying burnout risks before they hit
Communicating your best skills in interviews or performance reviews
Companies do this exercise with entire departments to reduce turnover and build more strategic teams.
Individuals use it to negotiate better roles, justify promotions, and transition into more aligned work.
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List every task, duty, or responsibility you’ve held in any job.
Sort each task into Love It, Like It, or Leave It Behind.
Step back and look for themes — your career “green zone” becomes obvious.
Use these insights to plan your next role, restructure your workload, or clarify the kind of work you want more of!