Your Sorting Hat: Emotions in a To Do list, magic makers and letting go
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 14, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"By choosing one job over another or a subject for study, you close other options.
Taking risk is thus taking action to narrow down options to reach a reward.
Not taking risk (inaction) is the same as losing out on all rewards.
Not all rewards are visible when you take the risk.
A risk sends you down a path. What's the next reward lying in wait down that path?"
II.
"Your To-Do list at work is both a task tracker and an emotion regulator.
The faster you complete and strike off tasks, the higher your energy and joy."
III.
"Ask questions that matter and that make sense.
Asking questions - is a quick way to learn and grow each day."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Jim Dethmer, leadership coach and author, believes in agency and offers a way to get control of your life, in his guide to effective leadership - The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success -
"TAKING 100% RESPONSIBILITY PROCESS
STEP 1: Identify an issue/complaint about anything going on in your life. State the complaint in “unenlightened” terms. Be dramatic. Ham it up. Blame overtly.
STEP 2: Step into 100% responsibility. Physically find a place in the room that represents your internal shift to being 100% responsible for the situation.
STEP 3: Gain insight by completing these statements, repeating each of them several times, until you have what feels like a breakthrough: From the past this reminds me of… I keep this issue going by… What I get from keeping this issue going is… The lifelong pattern I’m noticing is… I can demonstrate 100% responsibility concerning this issue by…
STEP 4: If during Step 3, you do not experience a shift, go back to Step 1 and repeat the process."
Source: Book: 15 Commitments by Jim Dethmer
II.
Danielle Doby, author and poet, on staying inspired, in her book of poetry - I am Her Tribe : -
"Be around the light bringers, the magic makers, the world shifters, the game shakers.
They challenge you, break you open, uplift and expand you. They don't let you play small with your life.
These heartbeats are your people. These people are your tribe."
Source: Book: I am Her Tribe by Danielle Doby
1 Question
What do you need to let go off - to enjoy your job or save a relationship or simply feel free?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times