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Relationships Matter!

By Laura Berman Fortgang on November 9, 2018

Relationships Matter!Sure, technical skills matter, but no matter what field you’re in, how you relate with people and the diversity of life experiences you bring into your circle matters.

“…building relationships is important because you just never know where the next opportunity is going to come from.”

One Engineer Explains How Relationships Can Have a Big Impact on Your Career

Filed Under: Following Your Passion, Inspiration to Follow Your Blueprint, Job Change, Job Satisfaction, Job Search, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Taking Action Tagged With: career, Career Coaching, career path, career transition, entrepreneurs, new direction, new venture, Now What Coaching, Opportunity, passion, take action, transitionLeave a Comment

Motivational Quote: Develop Your Passion

By Laura Berman Fortgang on November 5, 2018

Don’t Find Your Passion … Go Out and Develop It! Laura Berman Fortgang

Filed Under: Inspirational Quotes, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Motivational Quotes, Quotes to Live By Tagged With: entrepreneurs, Following your passion, Laura Berman Fortgang, life coach, new direction, Now What Coaching, passion, passions, take actionLeave a Comment

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

By Laura Berman Fortgang on September 14, 2018

At the airport this past Friday morning:

dancing feetA young man (I am guessing between the ages of 17-25) dances/skips with perfectly pointed toes across the endless carpeted open space in the international arrivals terminal in Toronto. I see him from the top of the escalator two stories up. Upon a closer look, I can see he isn’t a professional. He and his mother happened to exit at the same time I did. I asked the woman if I could talk to her son. She paused.
“He’s autistic,” she said.
“I know,” I said and proceeded.
“I saw you dancing in there.”
“I’m not a dancer,” he said.
“Well, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your joy. It made me very happy to see you dance.”
He walked away. His mom cried.

She seemed shocked that someone even noticed her son, much less had something kind to say to him.

I posted this bit on Facebook, and the reactions and shares piled up. Many acknowledged me for my actions which, frankly, still embarrasses me. I didn’t mean to attract attention to myself. I wanted to share this scene for people to take in and bring their own meaning to it.

In the few days since, I thought it was worth repeating here as an invitation. That invitation is to look up from your devices and skip past instant assumptions. Focus your perspective to cut through the surface to find a connection or commonality you can appreciate with our fellow human beings. See their humanity.

You know what I saw when I watched the dancing young man? First, I saw beauty in his form. Then I marveled at the freedom he gave himself to enjoy the open, uncrowded, carpeted space. Then I projected myself into that observation. Whenever I am in an open, carpeted expanse, like an empty Las Vegas conference ballroom (not random, I’m in these ballrooms often for speeches), I want to do the very same thing he was doing! I want to jump and dance and fly through the space to the limits of my human ability. Before a certain age, I cartwheeled when I was alone in these spaces. So by looking up from my device and coming upon the bird’s eye view of this dancer, I saw beauty, felt joy in watching him, and connected it to my secret. I relished the moment.

I also had to say something to him about it. I knew he wouldn’t care, but I felt moved to talk to him. I felt I could relate to this mother who has it much harder than I do. I know she lives in a world most don’t understand. I wanted her to know her boy had an impact. His freedom to be himself mattered.

What will you notice today? What will you SEE?

If you read this because you’re on the Now What? (am I going to do) journey, being more in tune with what’s going on around you can help open your eyes to opportunities that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Filed Under: Following Your Passion, Inspiration to Follow Your Blueprint, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Now What? Newsletter Articles Tagged With: Following your passion, Laura Berman Fortgang, life coach, Opportunity, passion, passions, take actionLeave a Comment

Don’t Find Your Passion … Go Out and Develop It!

By Laura Berman Fortgang on August 1, 2018

If you haven’t found your passion yet, don’t despair! Passions aren’t lying in wait for you to uncover them, nor is there just one “true” passion for each of us.

Don’t Find Your Passion … Go Out and Develop It!Our core interests aren’t whetted to one path or career. Rather, they can be cultivated – growing and developing over time as we explore new areas of interest and approach the world with an open, curious mind.

“Find Your Passion” Is Awful Advice

Filed Under: Following Your Passion, Inspiration to Follow Your Blueprint, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Reinventing Yourself, Taking Action Tagged With: Clarity, coaching, Desire, entrepreneurs, Following your passion, Laura Berman Fortgang, life coach, Opportunity, passion, passions, take action, transitionLeave a Comment

#InspirationalQuote: How to Open Doors Where There Were Walls

By Laura Berman Fortgang on July 23, 2018

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." Joseph Campbell

Filed Under: Inspirational Quotes, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Motivational Quotes, Quotes to Live By Tagged With: Following your passion, Laura Berman Fortgang, life coach, Now What Coaching, passion, passionsLeave a Comment

Follow Your Passion and Make it Your Work!

By Laura Berman Fortgang on June 2, 2018

Follow your dreams! Live your passion!

We hear it all the time and sometimes it just sounds too good to be true. At Now What?® we know that it’s possible, and we know that it’s more likely to be successful when certain steps are taken.

Follow Your Passion and Make it Your Work! Sometimes we need real-life examples that it can work.

Here’s one that not only offers the story, but also takes you through some concrete steps that this man took to move from a “sensible life” to a fulfilling one.

How I Quit My Job to Find My Life’s Work

Filed Under: Following Your Passion, Inspiration to Follow Your Blueprint, Job Change, Job Satisfaction, Job Search Tagged With: career, Career Change, Career coach, Career Coaching, career transition, Career transitions, Change, Following your passion, passion, passionsLeave a Comment

Life After a Crushing Interrupted Dream

By Laura Berman Fortgang on May 11, 2018

What Jay Williams describes as his “worst mistake” in this conversation with Oprah, we at Now What?® would call an Interrupted Dream – to the extreme.

switch-98610_640This story shows how one man overcame a devastating loss in his life, where he found support, and how he connected his past passion with his current career. So much goodness here to inspire us all!

You Can Survive Your Worst Mistake

Filed Under: Following Your Passion, Inspiration to Follow Your Blueprint, Job Change, Job Satisfaction, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Reinventing Yourself, Taking Action Tagged With: Career Coaching, career path, career reinvention, Change, entrepreneurs, Following your passion, Laura Berman Fortgang, Now What Coaching, Opportunity, passion, passionsLeave a Comment

#InspirationalQuote: The Power of Positive Thinking and Positive Action

By Laura Berman Fortgang on April 9, 2018

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." Shiv Khera

Filed Under: Following Your Passion, Inspirational Quotes, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Motivational Quotes, Quotes to Live By, Taking Action Tagged With: entrepreneurs, Following your passion, life coach, Opportunity, passion, passions, take actionLeave a Comment

May the Force be With You!

By Laura Berman Fortgang on March 2, 2018

What can entrepreneurs learn from Star Wars? Perhaps surprisingly, there are some valuable lessons within this legendary film series.

5 Takeaways for Entrepreneurs From the "Star Wars" FranchiseFor a fun spin on some solid business advice, look no further. And then, remember the wise words of Yoda, “Do. Or do not. There is no try!” Get out there and seize the galaxy!

May the Force Be With You:
5 Takeaways for Entrepreneurs From the “Star Wars” Franchise

Filed Under: Following Your Passion, Inspiration to Follow Your Blueprint, Job Satisfaction, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Taking Action Tagged With: Career coach, Career Coaching, entrepreneurs, Following your passion, Laura Berman Fortgang, Now What Coaching, Opportunity, passion, passions, take actionLeave a Comment

#QuotesToLiveBy: What the World Needs from People

By Laura Berman Fortgang on February 19, 2018

"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Harold Whitman

Filed Under: Inspirational Quotes, Lessons Learned, Life Lessons, Motivational Quotes, Quotes to Live By, Taking Action Tagged With: Clarity, Following your passion, Laura Berman Fortgang, life coach, Now What Coaching, passion, take actionLeave a Comment

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