Change is always happening. Most are very small and usually goes unnoticed. And then some are big. Many, if not most, are planned – to some degree. And then there are those that are not. Even the planned ones though don’t usually end the way had played it in our minds when we set it in motion.
– manzoor
At a very very basic level – a job is a way to get the resource that one needs in the modern word to provide for the basic necessacities for his ownself and thise that he is responsible for. I am pretty sure this is true for most individuals.
But beyond just that a job can be, and in most cases is, more than that. It can provide a pupose, a structure / routine. Even a identy. if not a primary a secondary / additional identity.
And, irrespective of how much the compensation from the “job”, it is resource one can feel more agency over. This can also have an influence over our understanding of “money”.
– manzoor
I’m sure many of you have noticed this term more recently than in the past. So I did a bit of very rudimentary searching / googling and found all sorts of training / certification related to Life Coach. But interestingly the few individuals I did see list “Life Coach” as a skill on the online career sites didn’t seem to list any such certification. Not suggesting that they don’t have some training but do find it curious that they don’t feel they need to list what qualifies them.
Anyway, past that I suppose we all perform some level of Life Coaching in our own lives. Even if we don’t think about it actively, there are individuals in our lives who look up to us for advice / guidence. Of course they don’t necessarily stay in that place all their lives, most eventually move beyond. My point here being that we perform, unofficially, the role of a Life Coach without necessarily realizing.
But the more I think about it to me an official “Life Coach” is someone close / similar to a Therapist.
– manzoor
Yeap, it happened yet again – I was driving and on the radio I heard the following program / show “Finding Happiness“.
The very first chance I got, I searched for the program on my phone. Found it and made a “note” of it.
– manzoor
Earlier this morning while driving I was listening to KUT / NPR like I usually do and Hidden Brain was playing. The Best Years of Your Life was the particular episode that was playing and it really caught my attention.
For once it was being discussed as a natural progression, even a desired one. And not one to be dreaded.
– manzoor
So, what do you want to do when you grown up?
I remember this being asked of me, and most other kids around me when I was growing up. Back then “when you grow up” was fairly well defined, or so I thought. Only as I have been growing up have I realized, continue to realize, that I am not quite done growing up. Not even sure I ever will.
But even while I am not done growing up, I am no longer a child or a young adult. I can’t be either of these because I am parent to 2 individuals who are probably young adults.
– manzoor
OK, not absolutely “all” or “everything”, but most things in life are relative and temporary.
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Not sure we are all on the same page when we say, “can’t wait till things go back to normal”. Not saying I too have not have the same thought – I have. I am just not sure that my list of “normal” things that I am looking forward to may not quite be the same as your, or vice versa.
For me personally, working “remotely” was “normal” for a long time. So, no longer having to work remotely, would NOT be going back to normal.
– manzoor
The first time I learned that someone I knew took her own life, I was in elementary school.
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