“I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” Art Williams
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Don’t Be Afraid of Long Term Goals
Here is a short interview with Darcy Camden, as she reflects on her path to becoming a professional wardrobe stylist. Citing “learning to listen” as one of her biggest lessons, she advises those who want to build a lasting career to focus on long-term goals.
While it’s human nature to want to snap your fingers and be on the other side of change, relaxing into a long-term goal can be equally rewarding. Time goes by one way or another, so you might as well be working on something you care about. If time weren’t an issue, what goal would you sink your teeth into?
“How Finding Her Passion Led To A Career In Business Chic for Darcy Camden.”
Today’s Quote: Opportunity
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” Milton Berle
Ideas for Identifying Your Passion
Finding your passion can feel like an overwhelming goal but it often starts by simply engaging in food-for-thought activities such as these.
“Do What You Love! How to Identify and Pursue Your Passions.”
Today’s Quote: Improve your work
“This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” Bette Davis
COMMITMENT In A WORLD OF FAST CHANGE
by Now What?® Coaching Founder, Laura Berman Fortgang
In our short-attention-span, instant-gratification, electronic world, it gets increasingly harder for people to stick with something. Everything changes so quickly—our amazing new gizmo will become obsolete in two years or less, as will our initiatives in the workplace or at home. So many changes, at ever increasing speeds, makes it hard to commit to anything!
Why bother?
Well, there’s the obvious. Commitment will get you where you want to go. Put on blinders, see nothing else, stay put and don’t wander. Stay on task, stay focused. The tougher part of commitment, however, is settling in on why one should commit—to anything. If it’s going to change next month, isn’t it futile?
How does one commit in a hailstorm of change? There are two ways: know where you’re headed and be loyal to a way of being instead of an actual task. When you have a big picture of what you want to accomplish, it is easier to commit despite setbacks and changes. Is it a 50-year marriage? An income amount? A certain company or college you want to get in to? Stay loyal to that picture and be willing to do whatever it takes and change as many times as you have to to get there.
Secondly, decide (latin root: cut off all other options) WHO you want to be on this journey to the big picture. Stressed and harried or collected and determined? Choose a way of being that will fuel the journey to the big picture. How you behave is much more in your control than all the circumstances are. So choose carefully, and live that way of being the way a sailboat would catch the wind to get where it wants to go.
This reminds me of the Harry Potter series. Harry’s big picture—make the most of his gifts of wizardry. Harry’s way of being—take the high road, use his magic for good. It doesn’t mean he didn’t have to pull a few punches, because he did. However, he prevailed to conquer evil. He had no idea of how he’d get there. He had to change at every turn and be agile and quick. He could not stay the same. Only become better and better versions of himself.
That is what is being asked of you now. To keep fine tuning the best of what you have to give and use it to it’s greatest advantage. For then and only then, will we make any sense of the unpredictability of change.