Tag: Pathfinding

3 Words to Keep You on Track in 2017

Post author By Mlopez
Post date January 16, 2017
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Set your intentions for 2017 with three words

3 Words to Keep You on Track in 2017

I am wishing you all a Happy New Year!

The beginning of the year is a good time to think about what you want to achieve this year. I don’t mean the famous New Year’s resolutions but something wider and strategic. What kind of life do you want to live?

To kick off proceedings this year, I am trying Chris Brogan’s way of picking 3 words for the year to guide me and keep me on course. I tried it with one last year, but it didn’t go so well. It took me about a week to settle on my three words. I made an initial selection and then mulled over them for a few days till I found the words that felt right. My 3 words for this year and why I picked them:

Tags 2017, Goalsetting, Life Design, Life plan, Pathfinding

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Finding Work as an Immigrant

Post author By Mlopez
Post date September 22, 2016
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Space2Change Pathfinding and Career Workshop at Spirasi

Finding work as an Immigrant

Last week I had the pleasure of running a Pathfinding and Career Workshop for Spirasi, an organisation that works with refugees. It was inspiring to see how many want to learn and succeed in their new home. But some are disheartened because they feel it is harder for them to find work in Ireland. Immigrants might have more obstacles to overcome, but they are not insurmountable. No matter where you come from, you always have options. It is just a matter of continuously improving your English and being creative in your job search by meeting as many people as possible and rework your CV to make you stand out. My father did it as a Spanish immigrant coming to Germany and I have done it here in Ireland. And if we can do it, so can you!

If you feel you need help, contact me at maite@space2change.com.

Tags Career Change, Dream Career, Dublin, Immigrants, Job Search, Learning, Overcoming Obstacles, Pathfinding, Refugees

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How to Change Careers

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Tags Career Change, Dream Business, Dream Career, Job Search, Pathfinding, Reality testing

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Dream Career or just a Hobby?

Post author By Mlopez
Post date August 18, 2016
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Dream Career or just a Hobby Space2change Coaching

Hopefully by now you have an idea of your dream job or business. Now I want to make sure that you indeed love what you want to do. So, the next thing is to test your dream against reality. A lot of people find themselves in their dream career, only to realise that it is not what they thought. I know several people who became yoga teachers and belatedly realised that practising it full-time took all the fun out of it. Opening a scuba-diving school in Thailand might seem like an endless holiday, but it is very hard work and will leave you only little time to enjoy the sun and beach yourself. Beware of escape fantasies you have when you hate your job.

So, how can you test your dream? There are two ways:

Tags Career Change, Dream Business, Dream Career, Dream life, Escape Fantasies, Job Search, Multipotentialites, Overcoming Obstacles, Pathfinding, Polymaths, Reality testing, Renaissance Souls, Scanners

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How to overcome your Money Block

Post author By Mlopez
Post date August 10, 2016
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How to overcome your money block with Space2change Coaching

How to overcome your Money Block

Today I am going to write about one of the biggest obstacles that prevents people from following their dreams – the Moolah! This can be a major block for people especially if they have responsibilities (children, car, mortgage etc.) and cause anxiety. But as with the other obstacles (read about them in my earlier blogs), you need to take a closer look.

Tags Career Change, Dream life, Income streams, Limiting Beliefs, Money block, Overcoming Obstacles, Pathfinding, Resistance

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I don’t have the Qualifications

Post author By Mlopez
Post date August 3, 2016
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Negative Identifiers for Multipotentialites

I don’t have the Qualifications

Last week we dealt with the limiting belief of I am too Old. This week I will talk about another common belief that frequently blocks my clients – I don’t have the qualifications.

Tags Career Change, Dream life, Job Search, Limiting Beliefs, Overcoming Obstacles, Pathfinding, Qualifications, Resistance

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I am too Old

Maite's Ballet Dream Space2Change

I am too Old

One of the things people tell themselves why they cannot follow their dreams is “I am too old”. I told myself this when it came to my childhood dream of becoming a ballet dancer. I was not allowed to do ballet as a child. Even through my teens, I told myself that I was too old because I believed that you had to start ballet as a child to be successful. I imagined that even if I started then, I would be the oldest in a class full of children and would feel embarrassed.

It took me till the age of thirty to realise

Tags Age, Career Change, Dream life, Limiting Beliefs, Overcoming Obstacles, Pathfinding, Resistance

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I can’t do what I want to do BECAUSE…

Post author By Mlopez
Post date July 22, 2016
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How to deal with resistance

Once you start exploring what you really want to do with your life, resistance will raise its ugly head. You will come up with 1001 excuses of why you cannot do what you want. How do you deal with that?

Tags Career Change, Dream life, Limiting Beliefs, Overcoming Obstacles, Pathfinding, Resistance

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Love, Rock, Need

Maite Space2change on a quest

It took me several years and many exercises to figure out what I wanted to do. I now want to share with you a few exercises that have worked for me. Have you tried the Day in Heaven exercise yet? Congratulations if you got a full picture of your life from it. If not, here is another exercise for you.

Tags Career Change, Dream life, Pace Smith, Pathfinding

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A Day in Heaven

An exercise to design your dream life

During my life, I have struggled several times with the question: “What do I want to do next?” And over time I learnt that it does not always matter if I don’t know exactly what I wanted. It was enough to have some ideas about what I want my life to look like to be able to move forward.

An exercise that I found in Barbara Sher’s book I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was has helped me several times to define my next career. A Day in Heaven also called Your Ideal Day will add more clues to the picture of you and your perfect work/life.

Tags Barbara Sher, Career Change, Dream life, Job Search, Pathfinding