I am today without a full-time job. I have been working temporarily at a department store and learning a new industry and new skills for the last two months. I have great hope the company finds an opportunity for a full-time position for me. And I continue to look at other places too.
As I sit here at home this morning trying to calmly and confidently look into the future, a thought arose that though I am without a job, I’m not without a life. In fact, the life I’ve had has been good—and is good. I have been free to travel and live overseas. I have received a great education on east and west coasts. I have great health. I have an army of wonderful people to share life and who return my phone calls.
A calm came over me and another thought surfaced that perhaps something has brought me to this point in time. If life is a journey, then is this where I’m supposed to be? If I accept this (and I do), then I felt I had to make something good happen out of today. Something good must come out of the life, the resources, the experiences, the breath given to me. So then, a decision materialized that I have a responsibility to myself to engage with life (in all its variation) and to bring my best self into it.
I re-read a vision I wrote sometime ago about what I want in life that I had worked on with a life coach. I recollected a phrase from a book I had read about being an “inventurer”—a person whose inward life matches that of his outward life. This is someone whose personal values finds congruence with values in his professional life and family life—and I took great relief. This is the kind of person I want to be.
In the incredible times we are living in, I hope you find the resources you need and desire.
As I sit here at home this morning trying to calmly and confidently look into the future, a thought arose that though I am without a job, I’m not without a life. In fact, the life I’ve had has been good—and is good. I have been free to travel and live overseas. I have received a great education on east and west coasts. I have great health. I have an army of wonderful people to share life and who return my phone calls.
A calm came over me and another thought surfaced that perhaps something has brought me to this point in time. If life is a journey, then is this where I’m supposed to be? If I accept this (and I do), then I felt I had to make something good happen out of today. Something good must come out of the life, the resources, the experiences, the breath given to me. So then, a decision materialized that I have a responsibility to myself to engage with life (in all its variation) and to bring my best self into it.
I re-read a vision I wrote sometime ago about what I want in life that I had worked on with a life coach. I recollected a phrase from a book I had read about being an “inventurer”—a person whose inward life matches that of his outward life. This is someone whose personal values finds congruence with values in his professional life and family life—and I took great relief. This is the kind of person I want to be.
In the incredible times we are living in, I hope you find the resources you need and desire.
Resources:
The Inventurers: Excursions in Life and Career Renewal. J. Hagberg & R. Leider
Someone who will guide you as you write a vision of what you want out of life
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