HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!! I am sure most of us are celebrating without a corona and lime since 2020…
Spring is all about celebrating new growth, especially this year!! This wholesome season will be all about (re) creating and (re)designing our lives. Rebirth through intentional re-alignment with our values, priorities and aspirations. Let’s Spring into the New Normal you want to live this year, shall we?!
Last month we explored how you could make your life more fulfilling by going with your FLOW and putting your values to work. This month we will explore what makes a life meaningful? A good life is a meaningful life. This month’s wholesome blog post is all about living the good life, regardless of troublesome times.
May we also celebrate our Meaningful Mission Possible together this month!!
We are celebrating our wholesome anniversary this month!!
Exactly one year ago, I started up this website to support fellow human beings through this incredibly challenging time in our human evolution through life coaching. I wanted to make life coaching skills accessible and affordable to everyone. Holistic Life Coaching skills can help you find your balance and purpose, regardless of external hysteria and global anxiety. I hope it has supported many in dealing with and bouncing back from this pandemic.
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A Wholesome Life is a Good Life!
Living the good life by doing a good job and surrounding yourself with good people. That what this month’s wholesome blog is all about.
Feel Good. Be Good. Do Good.
Living the good life. A good life is a meaningful life.
What makes a life meaningful?
Our lives become meaningful when we identify ourselves with larger-than-ourself goals.
Our lives become meaningful when we make a difference in other peoples’ lives.
If you desire to make your own life more meaningful, you will need to find a way to make a difference in other people’s lives. How could you make a difference?
“It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.”
Albert Einstein
Doing good by being good.
Small acts of kindness and generosity have a positive effect on our immediate environment and community. Being kind and good, inspires others to do more of the same. (The Butterfly Effect). We lead by example, just as Ghandi said:”You must be the change you seek in the world.” You make the world a better place by being a good human being.
But what if you want to take it a step further? How could you make the biggest impact?
What if you want to DO more with your life? What if you want to utilise your life to make the world a better place?
Doing good to feel good.
The next step is about being generous with our time and money to do the most good we can.
Charitable giving doesn’t automatically make us happy. The way we give matters too. Charitable opportunities that make us feel more connected to others, and where we can see the impact of our generosity, tend to give the biggest emotional boost. The act of giving will make you happier, so be more generous for your own good!
I have been a professional ‘helper’ my entire life. I have made many successful career moves, but the one common thread has always been ‘in service’ of humankind. From massage therapy to serving a healthful meal a mile high on expensive china in a private jet. I have seen many colleagues overextend themselves, so I want to interject a kind word of caution here. You need to take care of yourself first. You should never help others at the expense of your own wellbeing. You are doing yourself and the people around you an incredible disservice. You’re not helping anyone when you’re depleting yourself. “Helping behavior” can actually become detrimental to your own physical and mental health if it is not balanced. When you start feeling drained, bitter and taken for granted – you have overextended yourself. Helping others should never feel like a burden or duty. An act of kindness should be done freely and autonomously, never pressured.
Do you want to make an impact on humans’ quality of living, or save lives altogether? Will you focus on helping disadvantaged people in your community, country or a 3rd world country on the other side of the globe? What cause are you most passionate about?
Doing good or earning to give?
When donating money isn’t within your current financial reach, you could choose to donate your time and energy instead. How do you want to use your time?
You have an average of 40 hours per week, 50 weeks a year, for about 40 years you’ll be spending on the job. That’s 80,000 hours in an average career. Since time is your most valuable asset… your career choice could be considered one of the most important decisions you will ever make. How about utilising your career to do good?! How about working towards improving humanity one day at a time?! How could you dedicate your time to benefit mankind and/or planet earth?
Instead of donating money to charity you could dedicate your profession to making a difference. That’s radical goodness! How could you use those 80,000 hours (or a percentage of it) to do the most amount of good? 800000hours.org is a non-profit organisation created just to help you figure out how to improve your impact through your career. Check it out!
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein
Doing good by being of service.
Most people who want to make a difference naturally gravitate towards the ‘helper’ and service oriented professions. A helping profession (nurse, physician, therapist) might feel the most rewarding, but it might not actually be the most impactful. There are numerous careers that can help indirectly by making a significant impact. Advocacy (politics, policies, journalism, media, managers at influential companies) and research for example can make a huge impact.
A fulfilling dream job should be a position you excel at while helping others. As we have covered before, a profession needs to be engaging to be fulfilling. It needs to fit your strengths and interests. Chances are if you pick a career because it does the most amount of good, but you’re not good at it or not interested in the day to day tasks – you will grow bored, frustrated, or burn out. The key to making a sustainable difference is to find a career that you’re good at and does good simultaneously. The book 80,000 Hours: Find a Fulfilling Career that does Good, by Benjamin Todd, gives several examples of freshly graduated students who choose to go work on wall street to donate half their income to charities. These graduates realised they could do more good by making more money, then become a doctor for example!
In trying to figure out what career would be the best fit for you, the organisation suggests you look at what problems are most pressing first. Figure out what could be the best approach to help solve them second. Then you look at what professions within that approach you would excel at. Most successful people in a field achieve far more than the typical person, so choose something where you have the potential to excel. Don’t do something you won’t enjoy in order to have more impact, it won’t be worth your sacrifice. Regardless of the impact you are trying to make, in order to be effective you need to simultaneously enjoy the actual job and excel at it!
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- What are the most pressing issues?
- What’s the most effective approach to try and solve it this decade?
- What talents do I have that could assist in that approach?
- What job would I be or become good at with my current skill level?
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It would be an incredibly fortunate match if the job you love also happens to make the most impact. It is highly unlikely that the best career for you personally is also the one that most benefits the world. You’ll need to compromise and weigh your own talents, values and priorities against the difference you want to make in other people’s lives.
Look for best option in combination of how pressing the problem is, how large your contribution will be, and the degree of personal fit into your wholesome life.
“It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.”
Mother Teresa
Good people.
Altruism boosts happiness by aligning one’s life with one’s values. Being altruistic gives you clarity, purpose and fulfilment. As we have discovered, being kind, being social, being generous and helpful makes us feel better. It makes you a happy, healthy and good person. It makes you the kind of person people want to spend time with! The effective altruism community attracts good people. Community is key to your success. This might just be that new circle of friends and colleagues you have been looking for…
“The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.”
Edwin Louis Cole
Good job!
An ordinary work environment is often undermined by bad management styles or detrimental office politics. In a normal network, individuals are usually pursuing projects of their own while competing with their colleagues for results. Collaboration is not always evident. Through coaching (mainly the managers) we can enhance the work culture and productivity through cooperation and teamwork.
Effective Altruism cancels out competitiveness naturally. Everyone within that community shares the same goal: to help others as much as possible. When you help a colleague to make an even bigger impact, you increase your own impact as well and you both succeed! You improve your own reputation by supporting your colleagues in being more effective. When you are helpful, others will want to help you in return. Altruism creates a community that supports one another in helping others. When you combine individuals’ strengths you can accomplish far more as a team than as an individual. Altruism organically grows the healthy work environment we all aspire!
By working together, we can end extreme global poverty and factory farming – in our lifetime! We can safeguard the future of our planet and mankind, while having a fulfilling career. We can enjoy a meaningful life through a fulfilling career within a supportive community. It’s a WIN WIN WIN! Feel good, be good, and do good to make the world a better place for all.
Remember, an act of kindness or generosity should always make you feel better. When it makes you feel depleted, remind yourself not to overextend before you burn out. Never give at your own expense. Take care of yourself first. You’ve earned it! Flight attendants remind you all the time to don your own oxygen mask first before assisting others. Give yourself room to breathe. Be kind and generous with yourself, first. When you feel good, you will naturally want to do good. Your cup of goodness will spill over and make the world a better place for all.
At your service in living intentionally,
Nathalie Francois
Feel Good, Be Good, Do Good.
Happiness. Fulfilment. Meaning.
May 2021
wholesome SERVICE PLAN in action:
1. Mission Possible: Everyday this month reflect on how you could re-design your life to become intentional. Work on your Wholesome Mission Statement until it sparks with JOY.
Discover your purpose and set your compass to fulfill it with intention! Sign up for the wholesome newsletter to get access to the incredible ANNIVERSARY BONUS WHOLESOME MISSION POSSIBLE!! It will help you discover your mission and purpose and live it through setting SMART goals and action plans. Plan your work, and work your wholesome action plan! Our Wholesome Anniversary gift to you and yours! Celebrate with us by sharing this good stuff with friends, family and colleagues you care about. The more the merrier!
2. Everyday this month reflect on how you could (re)create a more meaningful life: Contemplate how you could do the most amount of good.
Write down whatever comes to mind when you answer these questions:
- What really matters to me?
- What is essential to me?
- What / who makes my life meaningful?
- How could I become more generous?
- How could I contribute?
- How can I best contribute to the world?
- How could I do the most amount of good with the resources I already have?
- What would give my life the most value and meaning?
- How could I make the biggest impact?
- Would earning more to give more or dedicating my career to a good cause make the biggest impact? Doing good, or earning more to give more?
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