Page 34 - Final Project.indd
P. 34

CORE
    CAREERS
                                         may bring is in fact one of the ways of lessening the severity of the situa-
                                   tion. Then comes alignment, values are percentages rather than points. They’re
                                   a spectrum, so maybe a person is 70 percent honest for instance. Furthermore,
                                   relying on one source of value fulfillment makes you prone to driving straight-up
                                   against a wall; the slightest fluctuation that occurs to that source will dramati-
                                   cally influence your whole life. Thus, you can never have too many sources of
                                   fulfillment.

                                   Delving into Careers

                                         A job and a career are different. Artists, for example usually have a job
                                   that pays the bills but their career is the writing and the art. Similarly, it applies
                                   to everyone else, passion fuel is the career.

                                         Here’s a surprising disclaimer for all of you who are reading intently: emo-
                                   tions and rationality go together; you won’t find one without the other. Which
                                   means that once you start feeling dissatisfied with the career path you have
                                   chosen or the job you are working at, regrouping to understand where this
                                   emotion is emerging from is your way to go, as at this point, a problem lies
                                   within the levels of fulfillment of the career values. “Emotions and rationality are
                                   on the same side as both come from the mind; they are feedback loops from
                                   the body telling me something. Listen to them, analyze them, understand what
                                   they are; they are always indicating something,” Coach Shawky explains how
                                   the brain works.

                                         Does that mean that your mind doesn’t sometimes tell you to do some-
                                   thing but you are tempted to do another? Dissonance is a normal human phe-
                                   nomenon, which is why your values are the referees coming to snatch you
                                   out of the pool of uncertainty. When facing a moment of dissonance, Coach
                                   Shawky advises practicing mindfulness and breathing exercises help to cen-
                                   ter yourself, then create some space to remind yourself that you’re working
                                   towards your values; Eventually, this ought to lead to a chat with yourself to
                                   understand where these emotions are coming from and where these thoughts
                                   are going to lead you to.

                                   Keeping the Tank Full

                                         “I don’t want to survive. I want to live,” The Captain, Wall-E. The captain’s
                                   wise words lead only to one conclusion. You don’t need enough energy to pass
                                   by, you need enough energy to actually enjoy what you do. And this brings us
                                   to one of the most interesting articles publish by Harvard Business Reviews
                                   which tackles the aspect of managing your energy rather than managing your
                                   time.


                                         Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy have introduced four sources
                                   of energy and how to use them to gage when you are running out of power:
                                   firstly, the physical battery, which is controlled by how well you sleep, eat and
                                   exercise. Then there’s the emotional battery, which heavily relies on a person’s
                                   emotional awareness, the more aware you are, the better you can fill-up your
                                   emotional  battery,  using journaling  helps greatly  with  increasing the  aware-
                                   ness. The cognitive battery is next in line. It mainly has to do with how well you


     34
   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39