New Year or New Life

Many life events can cause this, some planned and some unplanned. It is the unplanned that seem to put us most adrift. Job losses are common, but so are illnesses and traumas. Illness and trauma prevent us from using all of our past to build a new future.

The path forward is not obvious when illness and traumas force the change. That is where a coach can be most helpful. In addition to finding what you can do and where they can be used, a coach will help you find yourself. Yet, in many cases our identity is tied up in our work and our bodies. I still think I am 20 or 30 on a bad day. Never mind that both my sons are over 30.

Facing a New life is almost like we are teenagers again. We don’t know what we want to do or what really we can do.  How did we make the decision the first-time? Did the advice we got really help? Now that I know what a Life Coach can do, I wish I had used one the first time.

If we go back to school we it seems we have missed a lot in the years we have been out. When I went to college I used punch cards to do things that my lap top does. Even phones have changed. Smart phones seem more like portable computers, than phones. Is a “blue tooth” something we should see a dentist about?

Is it realistic to embark on a whole new career at our age? Yet, how long does anyone work at one job? Can we trust our bodies to hold out for a new career? What other questions do we have? Or are they fears. We know how life plans can change. Did we do what we thought we were going to do in life so far? With the disability option we could just find a whole and curl up.

After a while curling up gets cramp. How do we go forward, and why? When our life plans get interrupted, we ask the basic questions again. Is there a purpose in life? How do we make our way forward? What did we do wrong?

Should we give up in despair or go blindly forward?

But what do we base our future upon? Our bodies are fragile; we have seen them fail us. The skills we had are not the skills that our world seems to want. And what they want are not the skills we think they need. How do we resolve these dilemmas? How did we resolve these dilemmas in college? We went with the crowd. We got jobs, married and raised families. We found joy in the little things in life. How much fun it is to watch a football game, especially when our team wins?

In our busy lives we neglected some things and emphasized others. Own we seek to restore balance to our lives. We seek to find the energy to go forward. We seek joy. How are we going to enjoy Life? Grand kids are one source. Sports are another. We all don’t have to play golf or travel.  We can still work and since that has been our identity, maybe that is what we should do.

 If these are some of the questions you ask yourself, let’s talk.