Brave?
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Yesterday
Lancashire Careers Company CIC
delivered a series of posts during the day that focused on bravery and courage.?Both are required in abundance when making career changes
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One year ago, Lancashire Careers Company CIC took a chance.?We had invested in a website, and we posted our first LinkedIn post as Lancashire Careers Company CIC (we weren't a CIC at that time) That first post led to a rollercoaster of events that pushed Lancashire Careers Company CIC harder and faster than we had planned or were prepared for. To describe those first few months as challenging would be an understatement.?And all that was six months before we even began to officially trade...
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The people who knew something of the situation used words like #exciting and #interesting to describe our mission to create
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. The people who knew the most, right down to the complexities of professional relationships
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The months leading up to December 2021 were… difficult.?That part of our life in career terms could be explained as being in #liminalspace.?Stuck between a long career as an employee and being on the verge of the self-determination
Celebrations don’t have to take place annually.? Lancashire Careers Company CIC is celebrating that we 'bravely' posted our first LinkedIn contribution one year ago.?
We are celebrating that we are happy to openly acknowledge that we are not brave.?We are definitely bold though!?
We are celebrating that we have made friends with fear and that we have gained a deeper knowledge of how to use liminal space to our advantage.?
Most of all, we are celebrating that despite everything, we are here, and we own this space.
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1 年Overcoming fear is no mean feat. I wish you all the very best for the present and future Caz.
I help people sit up and sort out their career futures at 50+
1 年What a great, honest and inspiring read, Lancashire Careers Company CIC, Carole-Anne Jones RCDP, PGCert! I love it. Thank you for sharing your experience. We need more of this and fewer platitudinous posts of the ‘just do it!’ kind. Your focus on fear, rather than bravery, is so helpful because it describes how you feel - how *it* feels - rather than how it looks from the outside. It’s about experience, not appearance. It is easier, I believe, to embrace something ‘brave’ when you know what’s involved. As you say, ‘fear is the bedmate of taking a chance!’ And, as I’ve written elsewhere, it’s too easy to use the label ‘brave’ to create a safe distance between oneself and the thing that one is afraid to try, even if one wants what lies the other side of it. As someone who spent much longer than anticipated ‘stuck between a long career as an employee and being on the verge of the self-determination craved for’, the liminal space began to feel like a good space to set up camp. It’s not so bad when you realise that it’s better to be in it than not. Because if you’re not in it, and yet you want things to be different, nothing’s changing. So, like you, I am ’sitting comfortably with the fear’ because that’s what’s needed. Bravo
Thanks for tagging me in to your post, Lancashire Careers Company CIC Carole-Anne Jones RCDP, PGCert! We shared some of our bravery together late last year when I first had the pleasure in talking about setting up your business - it’s been so great to see your continued success and commitment to our field. CDP love on ya! ??????????????
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1 年Excellent quote, Lancashire Careers Company CIC! "Most of all, we are celebrating that despite everything, we are here, and we own this space." ??
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