"In the ‘70s my dream involved young people’s communication skills, in the ‘80s unemployment and transition, in
the ‘90s youth unemployment, and today the mindful pursuit of meaningful work.
I am now at the point of what could be called dream integration. I will use all the skills and expertise
acquired during my career and my life thus far, to bring my life dream to life. I have been aware of this
dream from a very early age and through my life I have had glimmers and hints and signs and lessons. My
dream has taken me to many different places and it doesn't feel like any of those places were blind
alleys. In the last couple of years, as I have laid the necessary foundation for my next steps, I have
learned more than I could have ever imagined…and that makes this dream I call life very exciting. I am out
on the edge and I feel like an explorer, trying to find new land. A big discovery I made just recently is
that my dream focus is not just about work in the workplace, but primarily it is about the effort and work
required to live life fully. This has changed everything for me...has opened the vista for new books, new
courses and who knows what else. In this new focus I see myself as a Life Vocation Ambassador...a guide who
encourages you to your own personal greatness and purpose.
Judee Regan is an accomplished speaker, facilitator and
agent of change who has had her own consulting business for
over thirty-five years. During that time, she has designed,
developed and managed the process of transition in a wide range
of professional applications. These include executive-level
mediation; facilitation of labour / management teams in guiding
employees through organizational downsizing; and acquisition
of over $3 million in funds, used in the development and implementation
of work-related transition programs in the past sixteen years.
She encourages people to take responsibility for their lives
and is ever hopeful that if we are not happy with what is, we
have the ability to make choices that will help us 'find another
way'.
Judee is the author of two career management workbooks and the recently published, highly acclaimed book
entitled Meaningful Work...the Entrepreneurial Way: Your integrated guide to Career and Personal Life
Management
Throughout her career, Judee's expertise has been enhanced and enriched by her extensive and varied
experience with corporate, public sector, and private clients; participation in numerous professional
seminars and workshops; as well as her formal post-secondary education from the University of Toronto.
World of Work Inc.is an entrepreneurial outgrowth of Judee Regan's expertise. World of Work is about working
life: about people making good choices to survive and thrive…to gain peace of mind, a hope-filled future, an
integrated work-life, happier relationships and less stress. Empowering the individual to take responsibility
for their Work-Life balance issues is intregral to this approach.
A mother of three and grandmother of four, Judee has, for many years, been committed to building a Highway
of Hope. She has a special ability to shed light with her creative spark, and to ignite initiative with her
strength of will and her purposeful understanding of process. From the outset you know she is enthusiastic
and alive.
Hope is a beacon not a promise
Excerpt
from Judee's book - We Don't Die Well In The Western World:
A message of Hope
'Discovering
your destiny dream takes time, patience, faith and hope that
you can and will find your way. Often you will hear people
who have a destiny dream speak of something that is ‘more
than.' Young athletes telling of their struggles and victories,
people who say ‘I have always known I was to do something,
I just didn't know what,' and biographies are often filled
with stories of knowledge of what would be, long before reality
caught up with the belief.
If
you think you have a destiny dream, follow your gut. Don't
surrender your vision to nay-sayers. Rather, do things to
nurture your belief in yourself '
Living
your life, working at your job, caring for your children,
tending to the needs of your aged parents, being an aged parent,
being retired, being young, just being…these are some of the
many stages you will go through in your life. Sometimes life
will go along swimmingly and it is very easy in those times
to zone out and coast. There is a nice rhythm that allows
smooth sailing and then out of nowhere you come up against
a brick wall.
The brick walls are not as much fun as the easy sailing. We
are forced to come to attention and sort our way through a
quagmire of whatever chaos and distress life has sent us.
But it is this chaos that brings us the opportunities to learn
the skills, grow the backbone and line up the building blocks
we will need to take us through the many stages of our life.
This is a very hope-filled way to look at life. When something
unexpected or untoward happens, perhaps it would be easier
to ask yourself the inquisitive question ‘Why did this happen
to me?' i.e. what am I being taught here…what do I need to
learn from this setback. That is better than the damning,
angry question ‘Why did this happen to me!' i.e. how dare
life ask me to cope with this. The former addresses the promise
of the long range possibilities and the latter rails at the
injustice of the short-term problems. All of us are given
the opportunity to build our own highway of hope, but doing
your life in a hopeful way is a continuous conscious choice.
In your life have you ever had something go terribly wrong,
something you hadn't planned on, something that was just not
what you wanted to have happen? Years later, have you looked
back and realized it was the best thing that could have happened
to you? Do you see from your vantage point in the present,
that your life today is far richer for the experience?
It
is in those stories of such unexpected promise where we find
the message of hope. For even though we think we are in control
we are not, and life will send us many reminders to that effect
and there will be many invitations to unexpected future greatness.
To have hope when these invitations to greatness occur is
a choice on your part, a choice to see the possibility and
abundance in your life. It makes living life so much more
purposeful and accepting what is, is so much less stressful.
Know that hope is a beacon…
not a promise and coming from a place of hope is a most grounded
way of viewing life. If we all did life this way...can you
imagine the difference it would make? Now that is a hope-fillled
thought indeed!
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