It’s official: Your future is uncertain!
Just pick up today’s paper: New York to sink beneath sea (or so declares the headline in todays New York Times). Continued economic instability. Companies restructuring and sending jobs off shore. Arghhh… the list is long.
There’s no doubt about it, uncertainty can be uncomfortable. We human beings are wired to want to control our environment. We enjoy the stability that comes from having continuity between our past and future, a future that is familiar, stable and predictable. We like to feel that we are masters of our own ship, in control of our fate, and so it’s entirely natural to find ourselves feeling a little out of sorts when our future becomes an unknown quantity.
Funny enough it was a year ago this week that my husband came home from work and told me he’d been offered a job that meant packing up our home and life in the US and moving back to Melbourne, after 17 years away. I couldn’t have been less prepared or more surprised! Sometimes life’s biggest changes come without any notice! [Read more…]