JA Careers With A Purpose (CWAP)

JA Careers with a Purpose (CWAP) introduces students to the importance of seeking careers that help them realize their life potential and noble purpose. The program demonstrates the importance of positive values, life maxims, and ethical decision-making within the context of career and life decisions. It also makes them know the difference between a job and a career.

Key Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Learn the importance of seeking careers that help them realize their life’s potential and noble purpose;
• Demonstrate the importance of positive values, life maxims and ethical decision making within the context of career and life decisions;
• Attain a level of fulfillment in their proposed chosen career in the nearest future; and
• Participate in an international essay competition (JA Laws of Life Essay Competition) with prize-winning opportunities and recognition for brilliant ideas

Here are some life maxims that can inspire you.

v  We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about prosperity for our community-     By Cesar Chavez

 

v  All adventure, especially into new territory, is scary. By Sally Ride

 

v  If I accept the sunshine and the warmth, I must also accept the thunder and the lightning. By Kahlil Gibran

 

v  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. By Bill Cosby.

 

v  Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don’t compromise. By Simon Cowell

 

v  I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying. By Michael Jordan.

 

v  All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. By Walt Disney.

 

v  Go confidently in the direction of your dream. Live the life you’ve imagined. By Henry David Thoreau.

 

v  Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. By Dalai Lama.

 

v  My own experience suggests that is possible to start from nothing and achieve even beyond your dreams. By Howard Schultz.

 

v  A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. By Walter Bagehot.

 

v  Everything I do is a matter of heart, soul and body. By Donna Karan

 

v  Formula for success under promise and over deliver. By Tom Peters.

 

v  Never underestimate the power of dreams and influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us. By Wilma Rudolph.

 

v  The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. By Alice Walker.

 

v  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. By Eleanor Roosevelt.

Here are some career / job quotes

v  All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence-by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

v  Work smarter, not harder. –by Ron Carswell

 

v  Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. –by Buddha

 

v  It’s been a hard day’s night, and I’ve been working like a dog. –by John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney

 

v  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one ordinary man. – by Elbert Hubbard

 

v  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. – by Maxim Gorky.

 

v  Work is an extension of personality. It is an achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity. – by Peter F. Drucker.

 

v  If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union. – by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

 

v  Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.- by C. Northcote Parkinson.

 

v  It is not work if you love what you are doing.-by Steve Sears

 

v  Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.- by Margaret Fuller.

 

v  The secret of success is constancy to purpose. – by Benjamin Disraeli.

 

v  Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – by Confucius.

 

v  Most people work just hard enough to not get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. – by George Carlin.

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