This will be a slightly longer, work-related post dealing with some frustrations I have and learning to move forward. Just giving fair warning to any who dare venture forward. 🙂
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Category: Musings
Charge of the Light Brigade
One thing that has been clear to me for the past few years is that I have a mission in this life. What that mission is has never been fully clear to me, but I am now beginning to get a better understanding of what it entails. With my initiation into the world of Reiki a number of years ago, I’ve become enlightened, both literally and figuratively. I’ve opened my mind to the notions of energy, inter-connectedness, synchronicity and more. One theme that continues to reassert itself into my life over these past years is light.
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Syndrome de l’imposteur
Il y a deux semaines que j’ai adoptĂ© un nouveau poste dans mon entreprise. N’étant plus chef d’équipe, je travaille maintenant dans un nouveau rĂ´le qui est encore en dĂ©veloppement. Bien que le rĂ´le ne soit pas encore entièrement dĂ©fini, il me permet de travailler sur diverses initiatives et projets. C’est cet aspect qui m’attirait vers l’emploi – tout un nouveau dĂ©fi pour entreprendre. Mais reste que je suis en questionnement autour de mon poste. Ou plutĂ´t je suis en questionnement autour de mes capacitĂ©s d’entreprendre ce travail.Â
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Sanctuary retrouvée
Au cours de la dernière semaine, j’ai eu l’honneur et le privilège d’assister à une semaine de ressourcement menée par Karine Drouin. Un beau petit groupe de 12 individus se sont dirigés vers la République Dominicaine, pour y passer une semaine ensemble au Sanctuary Cap Cana dans la ville de Punta Cana.
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Anicca
As the new year dawns, it is a time for reflection. This year, the path laid out before me is tied to the title of this post – Anicca.
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(https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/anicca)
(in Theravada Buddhism) the belief that all things, including the self, are impermanent and constantly changing: the first of the three basic characteristics of existence
How are things? (The real version. Not the ‘Instagram version’)
Earlier today, I was chatting with one of my oldest friends when she asked me a profound question – “How are things? (The real version. Not the ‘Instagram version’)”
This was a very interesting question. Afterwards, the question lingered in my mind and I started to think about our social media lifestyle. It’s true – 90-95% of what people post on social media about themselves is the good stuff, the positive stuff.
Where’s the reality? Why are we so afraid to be truthful and honest with our friends and family? Are we worried that others will judge us? Are we delusional to the point of thinking that everyone else’s life is absolutely perfect and we’re the only ones who have bad days? Continue reading “How are things? (The real version. Not the ‘Instagram version’)”
Swimming Upstream
Some time ago while I was on a silent meditation retreat, I had the opportunity to observe something that I found intriguing. As I sat by the edge of a cliff overlooking the river below me, I spotted something in the distance moving upstream in the river. At first I thought it might be a otter, ferret or something similar; but as it got closer I was stunned to see that it was a tree branch. Continue reading “Swimming Upstream”
Electric Mayhem
Over recent years, I’ve started to become aware of a peculiar reaction that goes on around me. I seem to have some sort of effect on electrical systems. It’s most noticeable with light sources. Continue reading “Electric Mayhem”
Talkin’ ’bout Diabetes
There are times when I feel that my body operates on a very different level than the rest of the world. For the past 10 years I have lived with the fact that I am diabetic. I have a physical need to inject myself with insulin for times a day as my pancreas is not producing it. As a result, we diabetics need to be mindful of the amount of sugar that we ingest.
The logical conclusion is that if minimize, or eliminate, sugar from my diet and continue with my doses of insulin, I will maintain a healthy blood sugar level. But my body seems to be blissfully unaware of this bit of logic.
Job vs Career
At what point does a job shift to become a career?
A little over 10 years ago, I joined my current employer’s ranks. I was in my late-twenties, and had just escaped from a 5-year stint working at Chapters. Escaped may be a harsh term, but I’ve never hidden the fact that I was not happy for the last 2-3 years of my time there. I had been part of the store’s management team, working under a string of seemingly increasingly inept General Managers (I think we went through 6 GM’s in the span of my 5 years there, including a good 6-months with no GM at all). We started off as a leadership team of 7-8 people and then got down to 3 for an extended period of time. Needless to say, I was burned out when I left.
Until this point, I had gone from job to job since the age of 16. Some lasted a summer, some lasted a couple of years, but the simple fact remained that they were just jobs; a means to an end. I worked the job, they paid me. Upon leaving Chapters, I then took a job at my current employer – a health insurance company. I was a seasonal hire in their contact centre and eventually ended up being hired full-time. I didn’t like the job in the call centre, but it was a job. There it is again… job.
Musings of A Boxhead 