“I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*
Enjoy your Holiday this Season as you Choose Who You Want to be Known As. . .
“Jo Ann” M. Radja,. Executive and Career Management Coach
Math is where the answer is right and everything is nice – you can look out the window and see the blue sky – or the answer is wrong and you have to start all over again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
Earlier this evening, LinkedIn Pulse published my Blog entitled, “Why We Sometimes Don’t Make a Choice” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-sometimes-dont-make-choice-jo-ann-m-radja by @Coach_Jo_Ann on @LinkedIn. I used a few photos to explain Choice and how the Philosopher Tom V Morris, offered insights into that subject.
I shot the photo, above-left, yesterday morning. It is frost on a window. As I was putting away my flash drive, I remembered the graphic artist and mathematician, M.C. Escher. He was well-known for intersecting images, similar in concept to nature’s frost pattern. An example of Escher’s artwork is shown above-right. As we are almost at year’s end, we often think about what went well for us and what we want to improve in our careers. While we are not all artists, artwork in all forms within social media, offer a space away from our careers to relax and enjoy life for what it is. Relaxation brings clarity to our thoughts so we welcome each day for its own sake.
As You Choose Who You Want to be Known As during the new year of 2017, may your choices bring peace, happiness and contentment in your chosen career. Happy New Year!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
The solace it brings
to see the Light, no matter where we are in the world and no matter what year-end Holiday we celebrate, the Light is most important to us.
Anon
It is our humanity we wish to remember at this time of the year and I would like to share with you one of John O’Donohue’s poems, in his book, To Bless the Space Between Us.
May you listen to your longing to be free. May the frames of your belongings be generous enough for your dreams.
May you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart. May you find a harmony between your soul and your life.
May the sanctuary of your soul never become haunted. May you know the eternal longing that lives at the heart of time.
May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within. May you never place walls between the LIGHT and yourself.
May you allow the wild beauty of this invisible world to gather you, mind you, and embrace you in belonging.
Happy Holiday in the Lights you celebrate as you Choose Who You Want to be Known As.
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
The following anagram was published today via LinkedIn Pulse at http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-rolling-from-2015-your-year-2016-jo-ann-m-radja:
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As you Choose Who You Want to be Known As have the best year ever in 2016!
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Holidays. The above photo was shot last evening of the Prudential Building, here in Chicago, across from Millenium Park.
This is the search result for John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “So This is Christmas…”
Last week I published a Post on LinkedIn Pulse and Twitter. Here is the link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jingle-all-way-jo-ann-m-radja
However you celebrate the December holidays, please Choose Who You Want to be Known As during the festivities.
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
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Biases, like diseases, have many causes; yet we throw the same cure at everything. Dr. David Rock
People seem to act on beliefs that do not seem wholesome. When a sale may be imminent and your intuition has been urging you to go the other way, take a moment and choose to be compliant. Speak up is the new mantra so we don’t find ourselves saying, “I wish I hadn’t done that.” I wish I had known what I know now.” “What was I thinking.”
Our first reaction is often, judgment, after learning unsettling facts. It’s very hard to sit back and wait for the truth to be known. We feel an emotion so strong that our anchored initial judgment will not allow us to hear, let alone listen, to facts that answer our questions. The anchored initial judgment will not allow the pain to be diffused easily. Humanity hurts and our level of patience and understanding seems to have reached a level close to exhaustion because the unsettling reality is so painful. When the Challenger Space Shuttle blew-up before our eyes on television, people said enough, take it off the media. http://www.history.com/topics/challenger-disaster. The deaths we have witnessed recently across the United States in the past few weeks is enabling many people to also say, enough. President Obama offers a number of strategies to keep us safe at our workplaces: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/06/address-nation-president. Tolerance is a basic American value, both at the workplace and our community.
We are living and working in a new era. Our responsibility lies within us to follow the advice of our Leaders to maintain the common good for all of us. Peace.
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
Happy Saint Nicholas Day! From the Third Century up to today, this day is celebrated throughout the world. A wonderful explanation of St. Nick is provided under the heading beginning with Albania at this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas_Day
St. Nick’s kindness was extended to children, sailors and voyagers, during his lifetime. Everyone of us is enveloped by that sense of kindness. Be kind to someone during this holiday season to feel the goodness it brings back to you.
Enjoy. “Jo Ann” M. Radja, Career Management Coach
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You don’t have to be a “person of influence” to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me. Scott Adams We’re saying good-bye tomorrow to the year … Continue reading
Last week when I awoke, it was one degree outside. When I came home, some 13 hours later and as I opened my car door and stepped out, it felt wonderful and much warmer. It really did. I checked my cell phone and was surprised to read it was only 14 degrees. What? That’s all? The something we deal with wherever we are is getting through our day the best we can by being resilient.
Snow fell this week in Vietnam; it caused a traffic jam, not primarily because of the weather. Many people who had never seen snow drove to see where it fell. Snow fell over the Middle East as well. A Jordanian Prince joined other people to help a motorist out of a snow bank. Below is a Picasso image of resilience that the editor(s) of http://www.essentiallifeskills.net/ chose to represent resilience. What do you think?
When we are at our workplace, the SOMETHING we deal with usually comes up when an emotional response takes place. [Should I take a moment and manage my emotions before speaking to anyone else?] How did this happen? What’s the first response to our staff? What information do we need that we don’t as yet have? What must we address right now, later today or tomorrow? How am I dealing with the element of survival at this moment? What can I do that I haven’t done before to control myself, and remain aware of what’s going on to assist other people?
As you choose Who You Want to be Known As this week, when YOU deal with that SOMETHING, consider this – – – 
I hope you Shine brightly, whatever your activity this week.
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Career Management Coach and Change Agent
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Is it the end, or the beginning. You DECIDE.
We often consider what’s left to do during the month of December. Many cultures within our communities celebrate a number of holidays in December, usually with streams of LIGHT. What if December doesn’t take a back seat, ever! What if you start considering what’s important to you today in your career and what you presently know you have to work at to achieve it. Here are a number of food for thought quotations for you to consider:
Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You…Be Free…Share. Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there. Joyce Chapman
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. Thomas A. Edison
Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man’s true worth. Criss Jami
She was tough in the best sense of the word. She’d taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work. Nora Roberts
All success comes down to this . . . action. Rob Liano
Whatever action comes to mind, Choose Who You Want to be Known As. Have a great 1st week of December.
“Jo Ann” M. Radja, Executive and Career Management Coach
Note: The above quotations are found at http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/hard-work.
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day
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