21st Century Career SuccessWritten by Michelle Casto
21St Century Career Success When it comes to modern career development, one thing we can all count on is change. With advent of technology, telecommuting, and E-commerce, how work is performed is in a state of reinvention. Self-employment and small business development will become more norm than big business. And career changes will be more frequent due to rapidly changing organizations and industries. Finally, line between one’s personal and professional life will become even more blurred. Since modern world of work is rapidly changing to keep up with demands of our fast-paced lives and lifestyles, here are some characteristics of what new work contract will look like: §Seeking more meaning from work. §Equating “career success” with personal satisfaction over paycheck or status. §Everyone will need their own “name-brand.” §Increased use of technology. §Finding work that needs doing. §Changing in way management and leadership is conducted (less arrogance at top level, more power on lower levels). §Increased need for networking and self-marketing. §Lifelong “trying on” of various roles, jobs, and industries. §Creating a plan that is flexible, and continually assessing “fit” of work. §Increased representation of women and minorities in workforce. §Changing career fields numerous times in a lifetime. §Self-responsibility: Everyone knowing they have to chart their own career direction. However, 21st century career also offers many advantages: §More career opportunities for everyone. §Freedom to choose from a variety of jobs, tasks, and assignments. §More flexibility in how and where work is performed, i.e. working from home or telecommuting. §More control over your own time. §Greater opportunity to express yourself through your work. §Ability to shape and reshape your life’s work in accordance with your values and interests. §Increased opportunity to develop other skills by working in various industries and environments. §Self-empowerment mindset. §Allows you to create situations or positions where you can fill a need in world that is not being filled.
| | Is It Safe To Change?Written by Linda-Ann Stewart
As I'm working with my clients, I encourage them to feel safe. When I lead them in imagery to find a special, safe place, a few clients cannot imagine a place like that. Some of them don't even feel safe enough to allow relaxation process to occur because, in their whole life, they've never felt safe. There are many parts of world where an individual's life is threatened as a result of war, famine and other violent issues. But there are many people in west who feel insecure because their family was internally war torn.Only when a client feels safe to make changes that they want will those changes actually occur. The problem they want to change served some purpose in past. By time they come to consult me, it's become a problem. The subconscious will many times resist change because it's still trying to protect them. Overeating, smoking, excess drinking are some of ways subconscious uses to safeguard an individual. These habits serve purpose of stuffing, holding in or numbing emotions because those emotions were unacceptable to their family. It may also help them by keeping other people away so that person avoids further hurt. Self-judgement and self-condemnation might have become coping mechanisms to avoid excessive criticism from family. Not being successful as an adult may be a way to avoid breaking a family rule about "Not getting too big for your britches." Health issues could be an attempt to get positive attention or even avoid negative attention as a child. Seeing a parent who was ill could create an unconscious model to follow to be like that parent. If you're like parent, there's a better chance of being accepted by him/her. All of these are ways subconscious has found to help you in past. That help is probably outdated, but your inner mind doesn't realize it. The subconscious doesn't feel safe enough to change pattern. Your first step is to find a way to allow subconscious to feel safe enough to change to a better experience. If you have an intractable challenge, write down how it might have benefited you in past or present. There's always some advantage to it, or subconscious wouldn't be holding onto it so hard. How did it make you feel safe? Now, find a way for subconscious to feel safe so it can release challenge. It may be something like discovering another way to achieve benefit.
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