Coach Corner
Coach Corner helps you figure out what is important to you and how you can create choices and make decisions that flow from that knowledge of yourself. Posed as questions or queries, these brief articles ask you to think about your values, your environment, even your identity while giving suggestions for how to live and intentional daily life based on the big answers you discover for yourself.
What is the story of your life? There are the facts of your life and the story you tell around those facts. In Aging Well, Vaillant speaks of Integrity. He states "In old age there are many losses and these may overwhelm us if we have not continued to grow beyond ourselves." This growing beyond ourselves also means looking back on life and creating a story--an integrated and meaningful life that could have been no other way. It is a deep and profound acceptance of life's journey, including the journey into death.
What is your journey? How will you share it with others? What story do you offer? What story are you telling yourself? Is that the story you want to follow? Look into the future from now assuming your story continues along your current path? Does that story please you? Can you see other paths? Which one reaches out from your future to you now? Read more...
Walk the Talk and Vote Your Values
Do you know what is important to you? Do your actions follow from what is important to you?
Your actions speak louder than your words. Are you acting on what you say is important to you? Everyday, in your actions, you say yes to some things and no to others. Whenever you say yes to something you are simultaneously saying no to something else. Let's say you get up early to go exercise. By saying yes to exercising you say no to sleep for another hour. Read more...
Hats. When you see a hat, instantly you probably associate it with a profession or a situation. And, a hat can be taken off or put on, even if it is just for fun. For fun, let's try on some hats and see what happens. Think of a particular hat, any one will do. What does the world look like to someone wearing that hat? How does it feel? Taste? Smell? Sound? Seem too abstract? Pick someone and put on their hat. Try out their perspective. Read more...
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