May 21, 2009
May 21, 2009
ON THE TWISTING ROAD
(c) 2009 Discovery Lookout, Inc. and Stephen Coxsey
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IN THIS ISSUE:
*Steve’s Field Note
*Timely Reprint from CHASING WISDOM
*The TWISTING ROAD TRAVEL LOG
*BURGER BITES
*FEATURED RESOURCES
*ADVISORY BOARD — Spread the word!
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Steve’s Field Note
May 21, 2009
May is crashing to a spectacular close, with our younger son’s end-of-school program coming up tomorrow and our older son’s high school graduation next week. It’s a reminder that education can be about developing the whole person, but often is just about preparing our kids to fit into pre-defined career ruts.
With her always perfect timing, Barbara Winter posted a link to a video from TED about the ways modern structured education kills creativity. The video can be found here. You, too, can follow Barbara on Twitter by clicking here.
Thinking of graduates’ choices and the expectations imposed on them, I remembered a post from this time last year I wrote for my CHASING WISDOM blog-zine. I have shifted my focus to writing for TWISTING ROAD, but my past posts are still available. I have included that article in this issue for those of you who want to inspire the young adults in your life to “employ” some self-directed planning.
As you journey through here, think about this. What have you done lately to honor your dreams? What have you done to help someone else take his or her dreams seriously?
Enjoy the scenery On The Twisting Road!
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CHASING WISDOM Reprint
The Pomp And Circumstance Underground
In ancient times – a little more than a century ago – education was about personal development. It was about exploring a variety of exciting things just because they were enjoyable. It was focused on finding ways to entertain the mind and the spirit through history, culture, art, music, and math.
Now education has become a factory to roll out little job-bots. Those poor little job-bots will graduate from high school and college this month and line up for their job-boxes. Want to make a difference?
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TWISTING ROAD TRAVEL LOG
It was an unexpectedly busy weekend. Unexpectedly busy is not a good thing on Mother’s Day weekend. Our younger son had two rescheduled rainout soccer games, and our older son was invited on Tuesday to guest play in a soccer tournament that started Saturday. Fortunately, their mother and grandmother are used to soccer rearranging our schedules so we will have a fuller celebration soon. But the suddenly jammed weekend got me thinking about how much B.S. I still have to deal with in my life.
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My experiment rearranging my schedule to manage the B.S. (Backlogged Stuff) sputtered out like a dud bottle rocket that doesn’t go as high as the trees. I chose a week where the second half was overloaded with things that only come up monthly and usually on different weeks. But my idea sounded like so much fun I’m trying it again.
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BURGER BITES
The Burger Bites Series Is Designed To Bring You A Taste Of Coaching.
The word intuition has some connotations that place it in a box to be easily dismissed. For example, intuition is sometimes considered to be a paranormal experience like a psychic ability available to only especially sensitive people. It’s disregarded as nagging worries and concerns without logical foundation in the phrase “woman’s intuition.” But coaching has a creative and surprisingly realistic view of intuition that reclaims it as a powerful tool available to all of us.
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FEATURED RESOURCES
The Changing Course Dream Accelerator Kit
Do you long to find work that you love, work that seems authentic and aligned with your gifts, talents, passions, and values? Do you have some ideas but no clue how to turn the things you love to do into an income? Join the club! I did, and it has helped me transform my life.
A little over two years ago I purchased a program from Valerie Young at ChangingCourse.com to help me discover the kind of work I enjoy doing and develop a plan to make it my career. I read through the workbooks and training materials, listened to interviews with work at what you love experts like Valerie, Barbara Winter, and Barbara Sher, and got active in the community forum. I got clear about my vision and clear about how I like to work with people. It helped me focus on the purpose of Discovery Lookout, helping people discover their authentic life work and experience success in self-employment and small business ownership.
In the past couple of years Valerie has added a lot of content to the program. There are more resources for helping you uncover your gifts, talents, and passions, more resources for helping you figure out how to make money doing what you love, and more resources for helping you develop a plan and make it happen.
If you’re looking for direction and support, I highly recommend Valerie’s Dream Accelerator Kit. It includes membership in the Changing Course Club, where new resources show up monthly. When you sign in to the membership site, look for the forum where you can introduce yourself. I look forward to getting to know you and your dreams on the forum. Click here to change your life.
“Outside The Job Box Career Expert And Small Business Ideal Consultant ©” Training
After our family sold our preschool and child care center, I was looking for my next career. Every time I would hear a story of creative career change, I thought maybe I was finding my calling. That guy who “chucked everything” to learn about growing chocolate? That might be for me! The other man who bought a business renting sailboats in the Caribbean? That might be for me!
I thought I wanted to do all the ideas I heard, until I realized what really spoke to me was the courage of these people to exercise their freedom and pursue their passions. Finally, after many months, I realized – I love helping people come up with creative career ideas and finding the way to pursue them!
Valerie Young of ChangingCourse.com has re-opened the self-study version of her “Outside The Job Box Career Expert And Small Business Ideal Consultant ©” Training. She opens it in small blocks for two very important reasons.
First, you get boxes of materials, including up to four binders of printed materials and over a dozen CDs of consultations and interviews with business development experts. Second, Valerie is invested in helping the consultants be successful in their businesses so she offers ongoing support. She wanted to make sure that everyone starting the first block was getting the attention they needed before bringing in more students.
Great news! Valerie asked me to coordinate the community of self-study students to set up support groups, study groups, and future collaborations as we create our businesses. If you sign up for this program, you will join a creative community of supportive people who love to brainstorm together and support each other.
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ADVISORY BOARD
That’s you. As always:
If you like what you read, please tell your family and friends. If you don’t like something, please tell me!
Thanks for Joining Me on the Ride,
Steve Coxsey
Authentic Life Work and Self-Employment Coach
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On The Twisting Road is a publication of Discovery Lookout, Inc. and Stephen Coxsey
(c) 2009 Discovery Lookout, Inc. and Stephen Coxsey