A new beginning

Although I have been doing this work for many years, it’s a new beginning because I’ve moved my business from the city to my home in South Salem.  No more commuting! I’m also excited about the opportunity to work with more High School Seniors for their college and job interviews.  My city clients were college graduates ready to launch into the professional job market.  Mind you, I’m not leaving my graduates behind, I’m just looking forward to welcoming the younger crowd.

I learn so much from my students!  The other day one young man told me that he had realized that because of texting, he was having fewer real time conversations with his friends.  He was discovering that he was feeling isolated and was feeling less and less comfortable in social conversations.  We talked about the importance of engaging people in conversations and how it provided the practice necessary to feel confident and comfortable in  all kinds of conversations.

This was something that I hadn’t thought deeply about beyond the obvious challenges of social media but this young man helped me realize how it might be impacting young people.  Now I’ll be sure to bring up this concept in my sessions to heighten the awareness of this problem for my students.  The one thing I do know above all else is that practice is the only way to get better at anything.