Executive
Susan Chew, M.Ed.,CLC
Susan Chew Coaching
Salmo, British Columbia, Canada
https://www.susanchewcoaching.com
After decades of academic, professional and personal pursuits I found two truths in my life. When I made choices based on my highest aspirations I never went wrong, even while it might have resulted in more work. And, that in order to realize that first truth, I needed to get very clear on what, really, my highest aspirations were, how I was currently living within them and how I aspired to live within them.
I began to build this understanding while I was in the midst of all the busyness of a life. As a young professional promoted to a regional management position out of my home province and unexpectedly pregnant, the over-riding question that guided my next step was: ”Where do I want this child to be rooted?” And I chose to move us closer to my home roots.
Then I became a single Mom and my question was: “What do I want my child to learn about living an independent life?” I chose to go back to University and then moved into public sector work.
As a midlife professional, married, and now with two children, my guiding question was: “How am I living in such a way that my family sees possibility in their lives?” And I chose to earn a graduate degree, followed by accepting an executive posting with an international start-up.
When I posed and answered these questions I was taking decisions that were new in the framework of my immediate and larger family structures, and in some instances, new in the workplaces I entered. What they were more importantly within were my values – even though I was not consciously identifying them as such.
Over the last few years I chose to become a 500 hr certified yoga instructor and a professional life coach. These choices brought me deeper into work that refined focus, clarity and action within the framework of my values. Today I live in intentionally and continuously aligned choices.
Find your way of living in aligned choice with the focus, intention and practice that will support all the growth and transformation every season of a life can offer.
