What is Life Balance?Written by Michelle Casto
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This is crazy thinking. Stress can be a powerful motivator in our lives, and in fact, you can learn to use stress to your advantage. If you think about it---one form of stress or another is responsible for everything big and small in our world. For example, earth “stresses” a piece of coal until it turns into a beautiful diamond. The key is to find out how you can use stress in your life to create a diamond out of a rock! As with most things in life, prevention is best medicine. By learning about your personal health risks, family history, current health, and life choices (eating, exercise, smoking, drinking, stress) you can make smarter decisions. Ultimately, your life choices affect how you feel and how you function. Stress management comes down to self-management. It is about selecting appropriate options as well as making smart decisions. The best way to avoid “burn out” is to become aware of your unique stressors and coping mechanisms. Burn out comes from experiencing stress over a prolonged period and often leads to a visit to doctor. There are many ways to alleviate stress, however, you must find what works best for you and commit to doing it on a daily basis. Michelle L. Casto is a whole life coach, speaker, and author of 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 bright light to world. Contact her for a free 30 minute coaching session: www.getsmartseries.com and www.brightlightcoach.com
Michelle L. Casto is a whole life coach, speaker, and author of the Get Smart! LearningBook Series. Visit virtually: www.getsmartseries.com and www.brightlightcoach.com Free coaching session!
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My own concept of career is like a wardrobe, where you “try on” different outfits throughout your lifetime, and continue to check mirror to see if it still fits and matches your current style and taste. In modern world of work, you will need to find work that is “suited” to you. Think of your life’s work as your wardrobe. It is ever-changing as you move through life, changing as your styles and interests change. Throughout process, you will be tailoring yourself to fit different roles, and to meet changing work styles and expectations. Thus, today, way in which we go about planning and strategizing our work life is constantly changing. We are taking a more proactive---therefore more exciting and challenging approach--- to managing which way our career takes us. People are daring to walk their unique paths, and ignoring traditional routes. In fact, tomorrow’s jobs are relatively unknown to us at this time, as there will be new titles and new career fields that will develop. If a modern career is like a wardrobe, you will wear many kinds of outfits throughout a lifetime, sometimes mixing and matching ensembles, but always checking to see that it still reflects your current style and remains a good fit. It has been said that clothes make man—what you are displaying to world through your choice of clothing is how you express yourself. Similarly, how you express yourself and what you value is reflected in work you choose to perform. As Mark Twain said, “There is no security in life, only opportunity.” Given today’s changing times, we cannot hold onto one idea for very long---there is so much good work that must be done to help us evolve to our fullest potential. We are multi-talented, multi-faceted beings with many gifts to share. We cannot lock ourselves into any one job or job path. We must walk our path, but remain flexible and open to new experiences. We also need to learn our lessons along way. Each job, no matter how small, is meaningful and is part of our career plan in that we are always building onto our careers. Today’s work will prepare us for tomorrow’s opportunities. Michelle L. Casto is a whole life coach, speaker, and author of 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 bright light to world. Contact her for a free 30 minute coaching session: www.getsmartseries.com and www.brightlightcoach.com
Michelle L. Casto is a whole life coach, speaker, and author of the Get Smart! LearningBook Series. Visit virtually: www.getsmartseries.com and www.brightlightcoach.com Free coaching session!
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