What's Your Why?
Our current focus is helping students to discover their purpose, their answer to the question, "What's Your Why?" Once students are empowered to realize their "Why," we can help them with the "How."
Everyone has talents, gifts, skills, and abilities that they can offer in this world. Everyone has purpose. We are committed to helping students realize how their skills, abilities, natural desires and interests can turn into meaningful life work with a livable wage.
Our Career Counselors are here to help students articulate and discover their purpose, which leads to a particular area of focus or pathway. Once students are clear about their area of focus, then they can begin meeting with General and Career Counselors to develop their path (the “How”). Once students are equipped with their purpose and their path then they are ready to explore the possibilities (“the What”) open to them.
| Purpose | → | Path | → | Possibilities |
| Why | → | How | → | What |
Often times we reverse this order:
We see someone who we believe to be successful and focus on their possibilities: Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, Nurse, Teacher, etc. We study their path. However, in the midst of following someone else’s path, we miss our own purpose and either never achieve the intended goal or we are unfilled when we reach it.The Counseling Division challenges CSM students, staff, faculty and managers to declare their “Why” and to utilize their gifts, skills, talents and abilities to enrich our campus community.
See how some CSM faculty and staff define their "why"
- Philip Tran, Business **NEW**
- Vera Fainshtein, Digital Media
- Alex Guiriba, Counseling
- Steve Heath, Accounting
- Cynthia James, Cosmetology
- Mohsen Janatpour, Astronomy
- Michael Manneh, ITS
- Rudy Ramirez, Ethnic Studies
- Darryl Stanford, Astronomy
