Ana Torralba

JUST BEING

anu7i12eaz — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:21:05 +0000

“Learning to be”. That’s the ultimate quest and the one we begin the minute we are born.

To be a daughter.

To be a eldest sister.

To be a friend.

To be partner

To be a team mate and a team leader

To be a parent

To be an entrepreneur

To be…all the above, but also being able to learn how to become new “bes”.

Then, education should be a lifelong empowerment process, which helped us in our intra and interpersonal understanding, achieving personal development and becoming empathic individuals.

The UNESCO called the above “learning to be”

Personal development, creativity and well-being have the potential of becoming the key outcomes of a learning system that follows the “right track” by giving the learners the tools to find their best path to achieve their goals

That’s why I decided to integrate different coaching, mentoring and personal development tools in my learning programs: so I can help my clients- young people, entrepreneurs, leaders and their teams develop to their fullest potential while building their “others” capacities.

Who do you want to be??

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DEBUSTING MYTHS: ONCE YOU CHOOSE A CAREER or TRAINING, YOU STAY WITH IT FOR LIFE.

anu7i12eaz — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:14:18 +0000

Reality: There are multiple fields that have the potential to satisfy our personal aspirations and professional goals, taking into account that people enjoy and define success in different ways.

With more than 2,000 options for university degrees and careers in Spain (not counting other types of studies!), it would be unrealistic to think that only one of them is the “correct” choice.

And the interests, values, abilities and aspirations of a person change and are different at 20, 30, 40 years old.

According to the above, the logical thing would be to adapt our professional career in line with our personal evolution.

Learning new things; taking on new challenges and changing environments and “careers” if necessary.

And yet, we continue choosing a career or studies at the age of 17 as if “our future” depended on it; as if this decision were something immutable, irrevocable, with no turning back…

At 17 years old I had no idea what career to choose.

I have changed jobs several times and have studied very different things since then.

It’s time to question the myths.

Ask and ask yourself many questions.

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What do we exist for?

anu7i12eaz — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:10:52 +0000

No, it is not a question taken from a philosophy class or a personal development podcast.

This is the question my little son asked us the other day in the car on a trip.

What would you answer to that?

Many reach the end of their lives without having asked this question. Others need “something strong” to happen to them to do it: an illness, a loss…

Then there are “age crises” – that of 30, 40… – also called “existential”, precisely because it invites you – in a more or less abrupt way – to ask yourself this question that naturally and calmly arises. an 8 year old boy ago.

My friend Alba Olmedo reminded me yesterday, from the (great) BeForGet newsletter, the importance of spending some time alone with ourselves (she launches the 15 minute challenge) to dream; to wander and think about your “why am I here”…and start writing everything that comes to mind: the big and the small.

Especially the “small”, what seems inconsequential.

Some need 15 minutes. Another 38 years. Some is yet to come.

“I think we exist to help others and the planet. But sometimes we don’t do it very well,” he said.

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