Julia is a life and career coach skilled in facilitating foundational shifts in her clients’ lives and work.
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What would you tell your 10-year-younger self? What have you learned over the last decade? I share 16 things that have become clearer with age… add something to the list.
I think I now can more clearly articulate the antidote to FOMO - it is our relationship with ourself. It is our trust that whatever it is that we are choosing to do INSTEAD is the right answer for us, because we know and trust ourselves to the degree that no amount of FOMO would sway us from acting in our best interest (if we choose to check in and really see what that is).
The “fear of missing out”, otherwise known as FOMO, started trending around 2004, when social media really started to take off and we gained a window into the lives (or at least the highly edited, curated lives) of friends, family members and far-off acquaintances.
Have you ever wondered when is the right time to leave consulting? If you’ve spent one too many nights banging your head against your keyboard, wishing you could sign off of the grind and sign on to a different career path, check in with this list to see if now is the time to make the leap.
...saying no to that question created an imprint in my mind that reinforced that answer to me about my identity, my ability and frankly not only who I was in that moment, but also who I would be in the future. Answering "no" would have created a boundary on my own life, present and future. And who was building that boundary? Me.
In most days there are moments I feel like a dark, raging storm and in other moments like a burst of sunshine that could burn through any fog. There are times when I hear myself thinking negative thoughts, saying things that I know will hurt someone’s feelings, acting in ways I am not proud of. I also see this duality of emotion and action in people around me, both those close to me as well as strangers on the street or in the news. This leads me, and maybe some of you, to wonder, what is the innate nature of humans?
