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Equality or Equity?

7/4/2017

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Written by Susan Golicic, PhD, CPIC

Many people entered 2017 with hesitation, fear and anxiety about how things would change due to the new administration. How would we as individuals be treated? Would there be discriminatory practices and regulations due to the beliefs of those in the new leadership? Several have spoken out, and many have protested.

As we fight for what we believe in, are we really getting the message we want delivered across? 

Current generations have grown up with/after the civil rights movement with the goal to end racial segregation and obtain civil rights for black Americans. We have also experienced the feminist movement – the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of equality of the sexes. These are only two areas of possible discrimination. We have many differences besides race and gender – there is also age, sexual orientation, religious affiliation. And even if we are the same race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, we are still different.

Equality – what most say they are fighting for – is the state of being equal or being the same. But we are not the same. I don’t believe we want to be the same. As a woman, I don’t want to be the same as a man. We do want the same rights and opportunities as others. We want to be treated fairly and impartially, regardless of what we look like, where we came from, and what we believe in and practice. Being treated fairly and impartially is actually the definition of equity.

I recently read a book called Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. This novel brilliantly tackles the still-present concerns around prejudice, race and justice. In the book, the author (through her characters) explains that equality is treating everyone the same. It is equal to give the same printed test to two students, but if one is blind, that doesn’t work! Equity, on the other hand, is taking differences into account so everyone has a chance to succeed – giving the students the same test but in different forms. While the book presents just one area of prejudice, it provides a beautiful example of learning to accept each other and appreciate our differences. The differences are what makes us individual and makes us each beautiful!

​Words are really the meaning we give them. So whether you choose to use the word equality or equity or even something else in your fight for fairness, just be sure those you are communicating with understand what you are actually striving for as understanding is often important for acceptance.

SUSAN GOLICIC, PhD, CPIC
Co-founder and Life/Relationship Coach of Uninhibited Wellness

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My life has gifted me with a spiritual journey through much change and heartbreak.

I’ve been an environmental engineer, a supply chain manager, a business school professor and now life and relationship coach, and through it all always a student seeking to learn more about myself and my purpose in this world.

Becoming a coach has enabled me to face my demons (feelings of unworthiness, discomfort with need, masking of my true feminine nature, to name a few!), embrace my authenticity, and create healthy and deeply fulfilling personal and professional relationships, especially with myself!

My compassion, empathy and intuition, coupled with my experience and passion for self-development allow me to share this with others to help motivate them to build the confidence to become their best self!

​When not serving clients, I am taking care of myself through running, hiking, exploring nature, reading, enjoying a good glass of wine, spending time with dear friends, and other self-care activities.
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Learn more about Susan and her coaching business at ​http://uninhibitedwellness.com/

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7 Ways to avoid sabotaging your career when your personal life is in upheaval

4/4/2017

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1. Make an appointment to worry: Set aside an allotted amount of time (10-15 minutes) at the same time each day to worry. If you catch yourself worrying during other times, make a note so you can worry during your worry time.

2. Make a list about your lists: Make a list of all your worries, then separate that into a list of things you can’t do anything about, a list of things you can do something about today, and a list of things you can do something about this week or month. It’s worth the few minutes it takes so that we can feel grounded in priorities, after all your brain can feel spacy in the middle of stressful times.

3. Give it all of 20%: Look at your to-do list and decide what 20% you are going to make sure you do exceptionally well, what 20% you are going to do well and what 60% you are going to do as well as you can with the energy that is left. You’re not in school, you’re in a career. You don’t have to be perfect and often trying to be can leave us doing 100% of our tasks at 20%.

4. Get an F and put yourself out there: Go to events and extend yourself to people in your professional network. You may feel drained and emotionally exhausted, but making yourself visible can increase your growth in your career even with all your stressors. We spend so much time with our nose in the books, we forget the stuff we did not learn in school that can make us successful.

5. Take some time to think about what YOU want in life: Spend 5 minutes, thinking about your perfect day. Do these goals feel like you or are they symbolic of other people’s wants for you? Don’t leave your true self out of your goals.

6. Let work be your distraction: For 5-10 minutes’ concentrate, as fully as possible on one task that has to do with your work. If you catch your mind wondering, just notice it wondering and go back to your task. Do this as many times in a day as you need.

7. Tame the pesky guilt monster: There is no set time limit for change to feel comfortable, be patient with your surroundings and yourself. Give up on rules given to you by your mind or others. They tend to bring up that pesky guilt monster.


Additional Resource: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/26/the-single-biggest-mistake-ive-seen-women-make-at-work-sallie-krawcheck-commentary.html


Allison Johanson

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Allison Johanson is a licensed clinical social worker with a passion for giving women the skills to manage difficult transitions in their lives which may leave their careers stagnant.

Allison works in both a psychotherapy private practice and through speaking engagements in order to fit the needs of a wide variety of people.

​Allison's mission is to help as many women as possible become as successful as they possibly can be.
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17 Motivational Quotes to Conquer Your 2017 Resolutions and Keep You Going

1/16/2017

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You’re about two weeks into 2017. How are those resolutions going?

Surely, for most of us, our resolutions have run the gamut from disciplined diligence to wavering slightly to…well, let’s not talk about abandoned just yet.

Aristotle famously wrote, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act, but a habit”. This takes time though and we are all bound to have days when our motivation wavers and the first excuse chips away at the foundation of a newly developed habit.


If you’re feeling that niggle of self doubt, we’ve pulled together a motivation space to which you can turn in your hour of need. There’s something in this collection for everything you might be feeling. And, if there is something in particular that has helped you, add it to comments to share with the community!
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PERSEVERANCE
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Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone else who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on - Hillary Clinton

If you're going through hell keep going. - Winston Churchill

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist. - Anonymous

Power’s not given to you. You have to take it. - Beyonce

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. - Julie Andrews

PASSION

If you have an idea, you have to believe in yourself or no one else will. - Sarah Michelle Gellar


Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.  - Albert Einstein

Success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. - Michelle Obama

I did not have the most experience in the industry or the most money, but I cared the most.
- Sara Blakely


I think the truth of the matter is, people who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love and it just so happens that they are the first to do it. - Condoleezza Rice

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. - Maya Angelou

COURAGE

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. - Mark Twain


Run to the fire; don’t hide from it. - Meg Whitman

[My mother] told me that fear was not an option. I was always told that women are stronger, so I believed it. - Diane Von Furstenberg

We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes -- understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. - Arianna Huffington
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart
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