Celebrate Your Independence

As our Nation’s independence day is upon us, enjoy all of the great things this wonderful country has given to us all, and to the world.  And, celebrate your independence. If you’re under-employer, unemployed, or seeking a new role, relish that you have the independence to make your own decisions on your own terms in what’s in your best interest.

Become independent by:

• Understanding what you need and work toward achieving that by any legal and ethical means necessary.
• Understand what you want – and understand that these are not “needs” and work to include them in your ultimate goal. But, don’t let them hold you back.
• Understand that it’s your life: you determine what you do and for whom you do it. Use your power. It’s uplifting and freeing.
• Settle if you must temporarily to put food on the table or the kids in school or to keep the house. Understand that taking a job that’s beneath your skills and experience is temporary and serves a purpose: to fulfill a “need”; be independent enough to realize that this doesn’t define you and be independent enough to let others think or say what they must; you are independent enough to do what you need to do.
• Show your independence by learning a new skill or trade; by doing continuing education; or by simply making a commitment to yourself to change something for the positive in your life – a relationship, a job, how you spend your time, etc.

Please reflect on these ideas as you watch the fireworks. Hopefully, the fireworks in your brain will be going off, too, and you’ll start the day after Independence Day with a who new mindset.

Michael Trust, MPA, SPHR-CA, is a Certified Career Coach and a Certified Executive Career Coach, who helps people find their passion and fulfill their dreams as they relate to careers through his organization, Trustworthy Coaching®, www.TrustworthyCoaching.com.  Mr. Trust’s Coaching, Business, and Human Resources experience spans twenty years, and he has had major roles in staffing in all of his Human Resource positions. In addition, he has coached individuals at all career levels relative to their career paths, job search strategies, business strategies, and related areas. Mr. Trust is also a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF).

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