The Mistake Parents Make Can Destroy Happiness and a Life of Reward, Fulfillment
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3 Quotes
“Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.” - Dennis Waitley, motivational speaker and consultant
I don’t believe in age, I believe in energy. Don’t let age dictate what you canard cannot do.” - Tao Porchon-Lynch, 97-year-old Yoga instructor
“You will spend 75 percent of your waking hours, not with your family, but with your work. Doing a job you do not enjoy — even hate — is hell on earth. Stop! Change now.” - John G Self
CAREER NOTES
In preparing your resume, focus on ensuring that your resume shows competence for each level of experience, skill and accomplishment listed on the job summary. If you are working with a recruiter, “update” your resume using this approach once you get more information about the job, but before you move into in-depth interviews. This will ensure the interview team and hiring manager will have a focused resume for this important phase of the decision-making process.
When looking for career advice online, remember that most of these types of websites target the average jobseeker — entry to mid-level staff positions. The advice for executives and managers is markedly different.
Always verify the posting date for online career advice videos and instructional documents. Developments in technology and automation are shortening the shelf life of best-practice advice.
BIG Idea
The job of a parent is not to push their children into careers that, while sustaining a family legacy, provides financial security, or is socially prestigious, but quietly, gently, help them discover a career they love so much that they do not think about early retirement.
For the children of helicopter parent, those who want to control even this aspect of their child’s lives, give a warm, reassuring hug, a kiss and offer these heart-felt, reassuring words: “Mom/Dad, I love you but I’ve got this.”
For the children of helicopter parent, those who want to control even this aspect of their child’s lives, give a warm, reassuring hug, a kiss and offer these heart-felt, reassuring words: “Mom/Dad, I love you but I’ve got this.”
For men, especially those compelled into unwanted careers, life often ends badly, including malignant regret, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, divorce, and even suicide.
Finding your own path can be, at times, frustrating, but it should be a joyous quest, an adventure, challenge and, most importantly, discovery for a life of gratitude and fulfillment.
FINAL THOUGHT
Tests for personality and cultural adaption can be useful. Companies are, again, using these types of testing tools to reduce the possibility of a costly mis-hire. Career planning tests that purport to show someone the work they should do can be extremely unhelpful. Just because your son or daughter has an aptitude for a certain type of work does not mean that is the work that will make them happy and fulfilled.
If you are going to subject your children to a battery of career planning tests, remember this: the results are simply a starting point for a journey of discovery. Their journey.
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