Building Your Future Caitlin Anderson, PhD, CPCC, ACC Finding Your Center Coaching & Consulting Albuquerque, New Mexico

Building Your Future

Caitlin Anderson, PhD, CPCC, ACCFinding Your Center Coaching &

Consulting

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Does this sound familiar?

Diagnosed5 years ago

Diagnosed one week beforestarting college

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What is the first thing that comes to

your mind?

And then?.....

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• Does this sound familiar?

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Building Your Future Starts NOW!

Finding Your Center

Wheel of Life

PAUSESystem

Tips &Resources

Call to Action

BUILDING YOUR

FUTURE

Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life, Whitworth, et al (2007), p. 194.Dave Engstrom, PhD, ABPP. http://www.mindfulmotivation.com.

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Finding Your Center

• Who are you?

• Today?

• Who will you be?

• What keeps you centered and grounded?

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Finding Your Center

• MS diagnosis knocks you off center… – there are many paths back to center

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Finding Your Center

“When One Door Closes Another Door Opens Wide” By Carrie Newcomer BMI, Bug Music Publishing. http://www.carrienewcomer.com.

“When one door closes… another door opens wide”

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Health

Family & Friends

Fun & Recreation Significant Others/Romance

Money

PhysicalEnvironment

Career

PersonalGrowth

Wheel of Life

• How Bumpy is the Ride Called “Your Life”?

• Rate your level of satisfaction on each wedge of the wheel,1 to 10 (with 10 being the most satisfied)

• These 8 sections in the Wheel of Life represent balance

Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life, Whitworth, et al (2007), p. 194.

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Health

Family & Friends


Money

PhysicalEnvironment

Career

PersonalGrowth

Balancing Your Wheel of Life

• Where on the wheel do you want to be?

• What would that look like?

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Health

Family & Friends


Money

PhysicalEnvironment

Career

PersonalGrowth




• What do you want the ride to look like in 5 years?

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Health

Family & Friends


Money

PhysicalEnvironment

Career

PersonalGrowth




• What do you want the ride to look like in 5 years?

• 10 years?

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• Rate yourself on Health on diagnosis date

• Rate yourself today

• Look at the next number up – whatwould that be like?

• What’s one thing you can do this week to move toward that number?

• Commit to doing it!

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Health

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Health Call to Action

• Create a Health Care Organizationchart with YOU as CEO

• Keep a small notepad with you totrack symptoms

• Use a calendar to track doctors appointmentsand medication schedule

• Write down questions as you think of them between doctors appointments

• Stay active – consult with your doctor to find an activity that works for you

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Career

“What are my leading gifts and abilities? … In those simple personal gifts,

the seeds of vocation are often found.”


• What would a 10 look like? Can youimagine a dream job?

• What’s one small step you can takethis month to move toward thatnumber?

• Commit to doing it!

The Active Life: Wisdom for Work, Creativity, and Caring, Parker Palmer (1990), p.68.

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Career Call to Action

• Set up informational interviews

• Visit a career center

• Build a support network at work

• Consider adjustments

• Create a Dream Job

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Friends and Family

• Family of Origin and Family of Choice

• Rate yourself on diagnosis date


• Look at next number up – whatwould that be like?

• Think of your Family Tree as a metaphor. What kind of tree is it?

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Friend and Family Call to Action

• Create circles of sharing

• Draw your family tree

• Think of 3 creative ways to build and

maintain connections

• Reflect on your family of choice

• Consider photos as structures to symbolize

your family of choice

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Health

Family & Friends


Money

PhysicalEnvironment

Career

PersonalGrowth

Your Wheel of Life

• Which wedge of the Wheel calls out to you?

• What would a 10 look like?

• What’s the easiest to tackle?

• The hardest?

• Which wedge scares you the most?

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P.A.U.S.E. System

• Plan your strategy

• Account for changes

• Understand barriers

• Slow your pace

• Exercise your options

Dave Engstrom, PhD, ABPP. http://www.mindfulmotivation.com.

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P.A.U.S.E. System: Career Wedge

• P: interview people, visit career center

• A: accountability, write down yourstrategy, journal, notice and celebratesuccesses

• U: fear, time, energy, resistance, messages from others

• S: relaxation, mindfulness, breathing exercises

• E: set and implement goals

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• Goal area: __________________

• Starting on _____(date)________

• At _____(time)_____

• I will __________________

• Barriers I predict: _______________

• How I’ll cope with them: _________

• How I’ll track my progress and whom I’ll tell: ____________

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Most importantly:

I’ll celebrate my

success by:

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Build yourfuture now!

Declare yourintention!

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Helpful Resources

• The National Multiple Sclerosis Society– National Web site [www.nationalMSsociety.org]– Chapter for in person events and self-help groups

• MS LifeLines Web site [www.MSLifeLines.com]

• Real Talk. Real Answers. Web site [www.RealTalkRealAnswers.com]

• Explore the Web for chat rooms/blogs

• And even, the library and books!

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Find YourCenter

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Live It!

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Building Your Future Caitlin Anderson, PhD, CPCC, ACC Finding Your Center Coaching & Consulting Albuquerque, New Mexico