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An effective path to wellness

Floating can provide a healing wellness

Intuitively when we get into a float tank we do nothing. Except in the face of the maximising trend of the 21st century’s Silicon Valley culture, the value of just doing nothing can be a very perishable idea. What often happens after a few floats are thoughts like, “what if I meditate in the tank?” Or “what happens if I use the other relaxation techniques I practice.” The thinking runs  “Won’t that make me go deeper, won’t that maximise what I get out of the couple of hours it’s taken to get to float and get back to my day?” If what you are looking for in a float session is float therapy, and especially if you have fibromyalgia, the answer to these questions is no.

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Best hack for evaluating career options

We all have limits so we all have to make choices

The best career advice hack to help you work out what direction to take when faced with new career choices is to use a card sort. This was the best advice I ever received from a career development professional. Card sorts are super useful for working through new job options, and for picking side hustles that work with the rest of your life. This tip came from Rick, a 25 year career counselling veteran.

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Career capital and dual career couples

So good it is still relevant 400 years later

If you are part of a dual career couple and can only bring yourself to read one career management book, it should be Cal Newport’s So Good they Can’t Ignore You. It was published in 2012 and remains in print and relevant. This book has one central idea that really helps – how focusing on your skills to build career capital is the way to great work. He also demonstrates a couple of traps that can impede your career satisfaction.

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The elephant in the (jobs) room

The Productivity Commission’s Climbing the Jobs Ladder Slower Report July 2020

The Productivity Commission’s recent report “Climbing the Jobs Ladder Slower: Young People in a Weak Market” looked at job and income outcomes for young workers between 2001 and 2018. The findings show that even before COVID, many young people found their position on the jobs ladder has been sliding ever lower since the GFC, regardless of their qualification levels. In doing so, it sheds light on the career challenges side hustlers can suffer in their day job if they didn’t prioritise conventional careers in their twenties and thirties.

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Friends and an authentic life

Through friendship we often gain a better understanding of our true self

Who we call our friends and why is a good place to start learning how to refine our sense of discernment. It can be a great help moderating the emotional roller-coaster of balancing a solopreneur life, or the challenge creatives face regularly searching for another day job. This posts explores these themes using La La Land as a cinematic example.

Discernment and resilience can be cultivated by exploring the niche in which you live your life. This includes the nature of your friendships – what you do with your friends, where and with whom. True friends are important to almost anyone who wants to live a good life that is authentic. To Ancient Philosophers like Aristotle and the Roman writer Seneca, true friends were friends and people we enjoy friendship with — a distinction worth pondering. 

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Welfare Jobs

“Scott Morrison has declared the Coalition will not engage in “unfunded empathy” when it comes to raising the Newstart rate” and “the best form of welfare is a job” Katherine Murphy The Guardian 29.7.2019

Thinking about job markets is a key task in Career Counselling. This week I’ve been thinking about unemployed people already on Newstart for several months. How have they have processed the rapid change in government policy on “unfunded empathy” prompted by a covid outbreak? Given the very low levels of support for the unemployed to date, it seems very unlikely any of our future creatives and artists will look back on their job hunting days with anything but horror.

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