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.
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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.
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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.
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OK, not absolutely “all” or “everything”, but most things in life are relative and temporary.
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I am not defined by my accomplishments nor am I diminished by my failures. A very important lesson that we are not really taught nor reminded. Thank you Simone Biles for doing it for us all.
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I would like to think that I am trying to do a little, at least, of what I have the ability / control over in reducing harming our environment. But really it is my daughters, and their generation in general, who are really settling an example for me.
We were sitting at the dining table having finished our dinner and my girls remembered the Cinnamon Rolls they got the other day and decided to make / bake them. While reading the baking instructions and prepping the oven one of them reads the ingredients, just because I guess, and notices the palm oil and they both make a grave face.
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There are times in life when you have to re-act, but if we can keep that to a minimum and try to be pro-active more it puts us in more of a position of control. Which does not mean necessarily a need to be “controlling” of things but more taking ownership and responsibility. When we don’t take ownership / responsibility it becomes easier for us to put the blame on someone / something else.
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