A lot of people spend all their life to discover what is the purpose of their lives. Thanks to destiny, I discovered mine very early.
However, this blog came up in a single moment and gave me the opportunity to be who I am in my best version.
One year. It has been 1 year since Calanchoê was born. I normally say that it is a German son, that was born in a strong and gray winter, with a glass of wine in my very comfortable living room.
In fact, time flies and, despite being a bit cliché, this phrase summarizes my feelings. I also feel a big satisfaction to tell you about my purpose and how it was to live this first year.
With stories, reflections, errors and corrections, in this text, I tell you how it was to get here. Besides, I will also talk about the next steps for this child to continue growing.
Good reading!
Why did I create a human development blog?
Many of you already know that I am a psychologist who loves to work with people and help them to grow and flourish.
During a sabbatical period and living in Germany in a dense winter, with temperatures approaching -19ºC, the idea of putting the various texts I had written in one place came up. This place was the blog. This way, I believe I help bringing knowledge and content to people.
In addition, I also have inside me a huge desire to produce and put into practice again all the experience that I have accumulated in 16 years of work.
The creation of the blog fell like a glove to continue treading my way for my life purpose. Through it, everything connects again. This motivates me to continue studying and giving my best.
Thus, Calanchoê was born as a blog. However, soon came other jobs like the career and life coaching for the people in Germany and Brazil. This job has gained more space and, my range of services has increased.
During that year, how did everything happen?
As I told you, everything started with the blog. So, people read the texts and they started looking for me to talk.
When people were ready to begin the coaching process, we started the coaching sessions. On the other hand, when I noticed cases where therapy was necessary, I referred the potential patients to some colleagues (psychologists). After all, as we have already mentioned, there are clear differences between psychotherapy and coaching.
Thus, the coaching jobs were born, as well as other needs. For example the job of Career Guidance. In this practice, I help people adjust their resumes and LinkedIn profiles for the job market. I also orient them to be successful in job interviews. This is how I always stay close to my purpose: sharing knowledge and experience, so my coachees will be able to go through difficult moments, more confident.
How Calanchoê taught me about life purpose
Now, that baby born in the winter of Hamburg is a child. This child in the middle of a growth moment, is willing to discover, test, learn and grow.
Today, our blog is sturdier, with diverse texts regarding human development and self-development.
In addition, our services have expanded. Besides the career and life coaching, we also work with coaching for students and career guidance processes. We also provide services in Recruitment & Selection and Training & Development.
Skill, vocational training and life purpose
Throughout my career, I have been connecting my personal and professional skills with my academic training. The interesting thing is that, at no time do I regret the choices I have made. Despite some mistakes, after all, we all made mistakes, I’m very happy about the way I walked.
At the beginning of my professional life, I was not sure what my life purpose was, something very common to young people. But, indeed, I did not really care about that. Because, unconsciously, I already imagined what would make me happy.
After the first training about coaching in 2009, I joined an exercise about purpose. It was at that moment that I began to see more clearly what my life purpose was. Over time, it has been confirming and strengthening.
Today I can say: my purpose is to take care of people. It is to help them create awareness about who they are and about their superpowers. It is helping them to feel more confident through self-knowledge to reach their desired goals.
Currently, I do this through coaching, having these three pillars aligned in my life.
What should I expect from the future?
Future? The future is tomorrow. So I want to continue bringing quality content, provide more interaction in social networks and in my blog, be always up-to-date with what is going on in the area of human development, coaching and positive psychology to better serve you.
Oh, and of course, we can serve you wherever you are, because our main focus is online customer service. After all, we use technology in our advantage.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I can say it’s very nice for me to relive this one year and thus conclude this text of celebration. I must tell you that getting out of the business world was not easy. But what a change, isn’t it?
My process took some time and long reflections. However, today I see that I can be more authentic and free in everything I do and believe.
Acting in alignment with my life purpose brings me happiness and inner peace. Besides, of course, the certainty that continuing on this walk is paying off.
Congratulations, Calanchoê! Thank you for providing me the opportunity to be who I am at my best version! Big hug and until the next post!
