Get your mojo back and find your work tribe

Get your mojo back and find your work tribe Mums: want to get your mojo back and find your true work tribe? Here’s how. Being coaches who specialise in mothers, we work hard to respond to your challenges and concerns, and we help you incorporate the elements of wellbeing so vital for healthy mental functioning and a flourishing life. We help you be more resilient. We help you rediscover your mojo. To find your work tribe. In our work with mums, we hear so many different challenges and individual concerns. These are three key themes we hear often. Do any of these sound like you? 1. You’re unhappy in the job you’re doing. You know you’ve not been loving your job for some time now. It doesn’t feel right and doesn’t work in the context of your family. You’d rather be doing something else and be somewhere else….with your true work tribe. 2. You’re stressed out trying to juggle work and home responsibilities. Your life feels chaotic and out of balance and you’re not feeling like you’re doing a great job at either thing. You’re feeling quite miserable. You’ve lost your mojo. 3. You’ve decided you want to move in a whole new job or career direction, or to start working again if you’ve been away from the workforce bringing up children. You don’t know where to start. You’re paralysed with indecision. You’re overwhelmed by the options. What to do? Get help with the big picture. Most of us will tend to start by getting straight into implementation mode; looking around job sites, talking to friends or former colleagues for possible job openings, writing our resumes, updating our LinkedIn profiles. But it can feel rather like we’re shooting in the dark at a target we cannot see. Or being stuck in an impossible bewildering maze. You see, starting with the specific questions, like “what job should I apply for?”, cannot be answered until you know the answer to the big questions. “What’s most important to me?” “What’s my purpose?” “What skills or talents when I use them, make my heart sing?” “Where and when do I find joy in my life?” Unless we know ourselves deeply, these big questions often can’t be simply answered. And, if you don’t know who you are, how you can figure out what you want? Herein lies the emphasis of the work that we do with many of our coaching clients. We get you to know yourselves, inside-out.We help you with a process, collaboration and support to answer these big questions. Once you do this, the specific questions then become pretty simple. But it’s not just figuring out what you want and why. Our coaching helps you understand and appreciate your strengths and capacities, because we know that when you use these at work, you will love your job. And then what? Coaching though, is far from just naval-gazing. It’s about active planning. Plotting a path towards your goals. Looking at solutions. Taking action. In our practice, we take a Positive Psychology approach. This means helping you use your talents and strengths to function most effectively in pursuing your goals, flourishing in life and exceling at work. Our real-world practical strategies and tips are drawn from the pool of scientific studies investigating the impact of Positive Psychology and evidence-based coaching. That means they’ve worked for many others and they’ll work for you too. DIY or call in the cavalry? Our joy is to see mothers flourish at work and in life, so if this article helps you move to the next stage in your journey, that’s wonderful! However, in our experience, not everyone can make bold forward steps alone, commit to action, be resolute in making decisions. If you struggle with finding motivation to make change, with figuring all this stuff out on your own, and would love a professional to guide you through a process, then coaching may be for you. Think of it as the ultimate investment in yourself. A plan for your life. Mums hold up half the sky. We owe it to ourselves to reach for the stars. About Kate and Debra FlexCoaches  Debra Close and  Kate Wilkie are specialists in Positive Psychology coaching for mums. Whether you are at home raising a family, or are balancing a career with family commitments, Debra and Kate can help you to solve challenges you struggle with and answer life’s big questions. FlexCareers offers a free 30-minute introductory meeting with our  FlexCoaches, to help you establish if coaching is right for you.  You can contact Debra Close and Kate Wilkie through FlexCareers  here,  and you can find out more about their practice,  Flourishing Mothers,  here.

#1 Question To Ask In Conversation

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My Word for 2020 - When I Grow Up

My Word for 2020 - When I Grow Up To be completely forthright: This year, rather than working with an Expression of the Year, I'm working with a Mantra of the Year. Before, I've picked words like be, acknowledgment, and venture to go about as my directing lights for the accompanying 365 days. In 2019, I picked President, and I'll stop for a minute â€" it felt better. Generally. Venturing into a genuine organization pioneer job, growing my group, and improving my business all spun out of my own definition and association with this title. Yet in addition? I nearly wore out. Without a doubt. In the past 10+ years as The When I Grow Up Coach, I've generally been propelled by development â€" much more explicitly, money related development. What's more, every year, I've gotten it going. You can survey my genuine deals and costs in my yearly Year by the Numbers posts (with 2019's set to show up in January!) and see that when I put my psyche, heart, and venture into something as significant as my fantasy business, it consistently brings about positive extension. By putting on my CEO cap in 2019 and picking it as my promise, I pushed more earnestly and further this previous year in all the manners in which I could consider â€" twisting to fit into new shapes, extending to arrive at new statures, and hopping to meet the new desires I set for myself. While I prefer not to let it out, to pay tribute to the straightforward idea of all that I do as The When I Grow Up Coach, I need to let you know folks… it was upsetting. I ended up turning in my brain late around evening time during the valuable time held for my family. I heaped on something over the top, running 5 projects (frequently at once) and not having the option to very relinquish certain obligations I realized I ought to have the option to assign from my new CEO seat. I was showing up on Saturday or Sunday to make up for lost time or excel, which at last felt like I was very behind. Whenever a customer stood by over 24 hours for a reaction from me, it burdened me like a lead inflatable, and it appeared as if each time one dispatch finished another was simply starting. Additionally, dynamic stakes were higher (because of my higher salary) â€" however so were my assessments! â€" which all brought about weight, exhaustion, and stress, stress, stress. I didn't adore it. Negative anything encompassing my fantasy business is so not my thing, you all. What's more, I need to transform it for 2020. Grasping on to this clearness, I realize I have to do the brilliant thing (the normal thing) for me. I have to do what gives me the space to actually flourish around here I've so affectionately assembled. I have to sustain myself, so I can support When I Grow Up Coach and my amazeballs customers… I need the Same Money, Less Effort. Large note: This doesn't mean I'm going to quit appearing for my customers. Indeed, my conviction is it will be an incredible inverse. I completely expect that driving with this mantra will permit me to be increasingly present with and for my customers, as I won't be pulled in a million ways and will have the ability to take part in all the spots (and in the entirety of the ways!) that really serve my customers, myself, and my business the best. The less exertion piece is an increasingly customized goal to calm the necessities of staying at work past 40 hours, over-burdening myself, and in this manner feeling strain to do All The Things. Just because, I am allowing myself to not develop monetarily, which is excessively extreme for the serious side of me that consistently goes for greater, better, more. Super gladly, I am in an agreeable position where I can furnish myself and my family with the way of life we need with the cash that came in this year. That is sufficient. I can get by supporting fantastic ladies accomplishing the daring work of seeking after their fantasy organizations. The cash I make pays our home loan, manages us a significant level wellbeing plan that is imperative to our family, adds to our IRAs and gives our little girl the classes and encounters we need her to have. That is sufficient. I can develop in different manners â€" through presentation, sway, and by helping my system arrive at their own objectives, as well. That is sufficient. Anxious evenings? Startling frenzy? Self-question? Depleted vitality? Exhausted body? Focused on mind? No more. My mantra for 2020 is same cash, less exertion as I probably am aware I can work more astute and better without working harder. Indeed, I've done a really damn great job setting myself up to do as such over the previous decade. With the consolidated endeavors of my 10+ years functioning as a full-time mentor, I've earned a year to receive the rewards of a maintainable pay and the advantage of genuine feelings of serenity. To hear me talk increasingly about this, I'd love for you to go along with me on Instagram Live TOMORROW, December eleventh, at 2:15pm Eastern! Ensure you're tailing me there and afterward head to the application around then. You'll get a notice when I hit the catch to go live, and in the event that you click on it you'll be there with me! I value continually remaining genuine with my customers and devotees, and couldn't imagine anything better than to interface with you on the words (or mantras!) you're focusing on for 2020, as well. In case you're prepared to begin New Year's goals setting, I have a sweet thoroughly free 2-hour online class that will talk you through how to Leave Your Job Launch Your Biz in 2020. Truly, I'm not kidding. This arranging meeting will cover the 5 total necessities you have to dispatch your own fantasy business for most extreme effect, and you'll make sense of the specific month that *you* can stop! Ensure you're there by enlisting here.

Professional Resume Writing 101-10

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