Listen to your Wisdom

Written by Lisa Martin


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Sometimes it is difficult to bring that suppressed inner dialogue torepparttar forefront of your awareness. You need to make space in your life to listen to yourself. Stoppingrepparttar 123586 busyness of your life, even for a few minutes, to be withrepparttar 123587 silence surrounding you will promote a still and quiet mind. When in this state, true reflection can take place.

To hearrepparttar 123588 inner workings of your soul, you must also practice patience. Give yourself permission to takerepparttar 123589 time to capture your true longings. This may mean letting go of your need for instant answers to mirrorrepparttar 123590 speedy pace of your life. Sometimes it's enough just to have formedrepparttar 123591 question and let your inner dialogue and intuition work onrepparttar 123592 answer inrepparttar 123593 background of your mind.

Playing with your Coach Listen well to your inner wisdom. Forrepparttar 123594 next week, find 15 minutes each day to dedicate to daily reflection time. Use this time to connect with your wise self. Begin to listen to what your intuition is telling you. Write how you are feeling inrepparttar 123595 moment —no lists, no answers, just random thoughts. Learn to be comfortable inrepparttar 123596 silence. You might begin by responding to questions such as ·I am happiest when .... ·I am calmed by ....

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Is a Career a Calling or a Choice?

Written by Michelle L. Casto


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It may or may not fully engage you. Spirit may or may not be present. A career is something you get paid to do that is viewed as a profession (status or identity isrepparttar motivation). It may provide more challenge, but after a while, you may get burned out, and choose to stop doing it. It may or may not fully engage you. Spirit may or may not be present. Your life’s work is something you do whether you get paid for it or not (your soul’s need for expression isrepparttar 123585 motivation). There is plenty of challenge and personal meaning. You will always want to do it. It definitely fully engages you. Spirit is present.

Remember that a job can get you started toward your life’s work. In fact, jobs providerepparttar 123586 very important element of exposure to different kinds of industries. Take for example, a woman who started out working in a department store as a clerk, who moved into a management position, and finally created her life’s work as an independent contractor who trains others in customer service skills. Get Smart! ŘIf everyone inrepparttar 123587 world could create their life’s work (and they can!)—if everyone could find what they were meant to do in life, how much happier and fulfilled we all would be!



Michelle L. Casto, M.Ed. is a Whole Life Coach, Speaker, and Author of the Get Smart! LearningBook Series: Get Smart! About Modern Romantic Relationships, Get Smart! About Modern Career Development, and Get Smart! About Modern Stress Management. Her coaching practice is Brightlight Coaching. She helps people come up with bright ideas for their life and empowers them to freely shine their brightlight to the world. www.getsmartseries.com and www.brightlightcoach.com


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