What if the career path you’re on was never really your choice to begin with?
Snippet of wisdom 95.
In this series, I select my favourite, most insightful moments from previous episodes of the podcast.
Today my guest is the career coach Keith Anderson, who talks about how societal and parental programming shape our identity, and why acknowledging it is key to change.
Press play to discover how reconnecting with your true self can lead to a career that fulfils you.
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[Agi Keramidas]
Welcome to Personal Development Mastery Podcast. This is another snippet of wisdom, where I select my most insightful moments from previous episodes. Today's snippet comes from career coach Keith Anderson, who talks about how societal and parental programming shape our identity and why acknowledging it is key to change.
Let's dive right in.
[Keith Anderson]
Our programming, like societal programming, even parental programming from when we were really young, they're like very big gravity pieces that draw us to a certain reality, right? So, first, acknowledging that there is, that you are an identity in something like more of a larger programming or a larger societal push, but that's not necessarily who you are, right? So, first, it's acknowledge that, right?
And, you know, be open with yourself and be okay with, you know, having these feelings of maybe money and prestige and all these things in your current path, right? How you don't want to leave them behind. It just, to start with, just acknowledge that those are there and don't try to put them down and say, oh, well, you know, money is greedy.
I shouldn't think like that or say any should, should, should. Don't should on yourself, right? And then, you know, from there, once you have started to get really clear with yourself on where you're at and those pieces, then it's about really exploring more about, like, you know, what really are you at that next layer, right?
Putting aside all of the corporate BS and the corporate values and all of that, who really are you? And, you know, to do that, it really goes back to basics of, like, what do you like to do? Who are the people that you like to hang around or be around?
What do you like to do with them? How do you like to help them, right? And what is that feeling that you have from helping them, right?
And it might be something that you don't even think is possible. For example, I have a client from last year who, she was a litigator and she hated her job, right? She did not like it, but she had such pressure to become a lawyer, right?
From her parents mostly, right? I mean, it was also seen as prestigious and high paying and all these positive connotations of that. You know, believe it or not, through the work that we were doing together, she was able to go back to kind of the base of who she is.
And she realized she's more about helping people become better in what they're doing, right? And, you know, from there, she actually became the director of education for a nonprofit startup, you know, working with Palestinian children, right? Kind of random, right?
Because she was a corporate executive working as a litigator for a large tech company here in the United States. And doing that is like completely 180. So, you know, it's first identifying who you are now, then it's identifying who you are underneath all of the societal pressure, and then it's about planning a path on what your North Star is and understanding what you represent in your life.
Not like I am a doctor, I am a teacher, but like, who do you help? What do you help them with? And why are you doing it?
Like, and seed, all of the different seeds that you have, plant those, and some of them will ripe, some of them won't. But that brings you towards the direction of where you're going, right? Because I also firmly believe in my own life.
And what I've seen from everyone I work with, you know, is that the purpose of life is to be happy. And to do that, like you just need to go within first, understand where things are and trust that by following your intuition and your guidance, that you are moving down the right path, even though it might not be anything that you thought it was earlier, you know? So, yeah.
[Agi Keramidas]
Thank you for listening. You will find the full conversation with Keith Anderson in episode 508. The link is in the show notes.
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