Creating Your Encore Career 207: More Thoughts on Transitions
Ready to transform your life and career? Promise you'll come out the other end more aware, enlightened, and equipped to navigate the various passages of life. We'll be taking an in-depth look at the art of transition, highlighting the importance of self-awareness and the power of journaling to help you get in touch with your emotions and understand yourself better. We'll show you how to use prompts as a tool to heighten your awareness and also share key insights from the book ‘Passages’ that beautifully illustrate the shared stages of our human journey.
Guiding you through the process of remixing your life, we'll walk you through how to develop the right mindset to weave through life's twists and turns. We'll bring to light the concept of a “tour of duty” across various aspects of your life and talk about how the nonlinear trajectory of life has been shaped by technology and worldwide shifts. The mind-body connection and the potential addition of seven years to your life span with the right mindset are also on the table. Plus, we'll show you how to gear up for an encore life, where you get to chase after the work you love.
Looking to start your journey? Resources are at your disposal, and we're here to guide you. Let's unlock these transformative ideas together!
We'll dive deeper into these concepts:
- Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age by Bruce Feiler
- The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World by Bruce Feiler (Author)
10 more ideas on Transitions
- Creating Awareness and Noticing - Journaling - Julia Cameron “The Artist’s Way” and daily pages
- Emotions are real and constructed - Michele Nevarez “Beyond Emotional Intelligence” - Examine and live with them
- Knowing Yourself and trying to understand others - Asking yourself questions - 12 Self Discoveries
- What’s your purpose, what’s important now - Gail Sheehy “Passages”
- The difference between Striving and Significance
- Making small consistent steps - BJ Fogg “Tiny Habits”
- Life as a Remix or Portfolio Life - Transferable skills
- The Non-Linear Life and Journey - Airplane, TV, Shipping Container, Smartphone, AI
- The Mind and Body Connection - Use health to create wealth, then use wealth to recover health
- Letting Go - Henry Cloud “Necessary Endings”
Extra Idea: Tours of Duty for Personal, Professional, Family - Reid Hoffman “The Alliance”
Resources:
Julia Cameron “The Artist’s Way”
Michele Nevarez “Beyond Emotional Intelligence”
Henry Cloud “Necessary Endings”
Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age by Bruce Feiler
The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World
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— Lynn
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