Setting a Course

Overview/Description
 "You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there," wrote Edwin Louis Cole. Similarly, you must first overcome what is holding you back before you can chart a new direction. This course, the second in the series "Achieving Balance in Your Professional and Personal Life," begins with discovering the biases and emotional traps that may be preventing you from getting what you want out of your career and personal life. Recognizing your personal baggage frees you to begin the process of discovering the choices that would bring greater satisfaction and happiness in your life. By completing this course, you will begin to create a new path for yourself that is in alignment with your own skills, interests, and passions.

Target Audience
 Anyone interested in improving his or her personal and professional development process.

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Identifying Your Beliefs

  • recognize the value of understanding how perceptions, beliefs and attitude influence behavior.
  • identify the effects of sensory stimuli on our perceptions.
  • select how beliefs affect behavior.
  • choose how attitudes work.

    • Obstacles to Change

  • recognize the value of being aware how guilt, shame, self-esteem, and fear work.
  • differentiate between the ways that guilt and shame are expressed.
  • identify how self-esteem works.
  • choose the ways that fear operates.

    • Shifting Your Thinking

  • recognize the value of using methods to facilitate change.
  • identify outlooks that facilitate change.
  • differentiate transition from change.
  • identify methods that facilitate change.
  • specify the steps necessary to carry out plans.

    • Choosing Your Path

  • recognize the importance of self-directed efforts.
  • identify factors that facilitate finding rewarding work.
  • choose actions that facilitate balancing priorities.
  • identify behaviors that will improve concentration of effort.

    • Course Number: PD0112