Posts by Sue Koch

Autotelism: The Path to a Life of Joy and Fulfillment

August 16, 2022 | by | Comments Off on Autotelism: The Path to a Life of Joy and Fulfillment

Your quality of life is not based on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself. ~ Haruki Murakami ~ I learned a new word recently. I love when that happens. The word is “autotelism.” It’s defined as the belief that any action has meaning and purpose within itself and not apart from itself. Autotelism is when you sing because you like to sing. You are a vegetarian because you like being a vegetarian. You meditate because you enjoy meditating. You do it because it’s there to do. You
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Categories: Blog, Conscious Living, and Sexy Second Act.

Transitions Sometimes Mean Falling Back to Spring Forward

March 17, 2016 | by | Comments Off on Transitions Sometimes Mean Falling Back to Spring Forward

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne Bradstreet ~ I can’t help but smile at the complaining and grousing that goes on when Daylight Saving Time begins and ends. It offers a great example of how people react when they face a transition. People Don’t Like Transitions. Not Even Small Ones Big or small, transitions take you out of your comfort zone – at least temporarily. You see how people avoid dealing with transitions all the time, like those
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Categories: Blog, Career Transition, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.
Tags: career change, Career Transition, and transitions.

Be True to Your Core Values – It’s Sexy!

March 10, 2016 | by | Comments Off on Be True to Your Core Values – It’s Sexy!

How do you know whether you’re serious about your values? You fight for them when they’re violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit. ~ Assegid Habtewold ~ I’ve been reading articles about what’s been going on with Lands’ End. In case you haven’t heard about it, Lands’ End is the organization that featured Gloria Steinem in its catalog Legend Series. Shortly thereafter, it dropped her following a backlash from a certain conservative segment of its customer base. This post isn’t an indictment of Lands’ End. Instead, it offers an interesting insight into what happens when organizations, or
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Categories: Blog, Career Transition, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.
Tags: career change, Core Values, New Career, and Starting Over.

How to Give Up Reinvention and Craft Your Career

January 14, 2016 | by | Comments Off on How to Give Up Reinvention and Craft Your Career

The people’s life journey traverses from being child to being wild; the privilege is not in growing old but being able to hold the infant’s nature for as many days and as much as a person can in oneself.” ~ Anuj Somany ~ Reinvention is an “R” word that I’ve come to seriously dislike. I shudder every time I hear it. Call me picky, but to me, it sounds like there is something wrong with anything that supposedly needs “reinventing.” How do you “reinvent” something that already exists? It’s either invented or it’s not. As an example, how many times have
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Categories: Baby Boomers, Blog, Career Transition, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.
Tags: Baby Boomers, career change, Career Transition, reinvention, and Starting Over.

Do You Ever Get Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

January 7, 2016 | by | Comments Off on Do You Ever Get Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~ Have you ever experienced that moment when you have had it with your own B.S.? And with how your life is going – or not going? I have been there. It’s not fun when you hit that rock-bottom moment and you must finally acknowledge to yourself that you are sick and tired of pretending that you’ve got your life nailed. You know something has to change even though you aren’t sure exactly what, or exactly
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Categories: Blog, Career Transition, Home Page Recent Posts, and Sexy Second Act.
Tags: Career Transition, Embrace Change, New Career, and tired of job.

How to Stay Happy on the Path from “Go” to Goal

December 29, 2015 | by | Comments Off on How to Stay Happy on the Path from “Go” to Goal

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. ~ Cecil B. DeMille ~ I love to travel. Seeing new places and meeting people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures is one of my favorite things to do. At the same time, I’d like to skip the whole anxiety-ridden hassle of getting there. There’s More to Goal Setting than “Getting There” Sometimes it’s hard to remember that getting there – whether it’s a travel destination or achieving a worthy goal – is a necessary
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Categories: Blog, Goals, Home Page Recent Posts, and Jump Start Your Goals.
Tags: goals.

How to Make Goal Setting Fun and Exciting

December 17, 2015 | by | Comments Off on How to Make Goal Setting Fun and Exciting

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass – to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that. ~ Anthon St. Maarten ~ Soon the holidays will be over and our thoughts will turn toward setting goals for
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Categories: Blog, Goals, and Home Page Recent Posts.

How to Make Your Goals More Important than Fear

December 10, 2015 | by | Comments Off on How to Make Your Goals More Important than Fear

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~ Ambrose Redmoon ~ Courage is an interesting phenomenon. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it is and what triggers it. One kind of courage is triggered on the spur of the moment when facing life or death circumstances. Most of us hope we never have to face such circumstances. And I believe our hope is that if we do come up against them, we will muster up whatever it takes to do the brave thing. But we won’t know
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Categories: Blog, Goals, Home Page Recent Posts, and Jump Start Your Goals.
Tags: goals.

Your Ideal Career Ain’t What It Used to Be

July 30, 2015 | by | Comments Off on Your Ideal Career Ain’t What It Used to Be

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. ~ Steven Pressfield ~ You’ve probably heard it before. You’ve probably heard successful people say, “If you want to learn how to live life as it was meant to be lived, hang out with a five-year old.” You might briefly nod your head in agreement before getting back to the business of “adulting.” Being an adult means being serious, being responsible, and getting real about making a living. Your “adulting”
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Categories: Blog and Home Page Recent Posts.
Tags: career change, ideal career, and New Career.