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The world is full of people who seem to have listened to the wrong voice and are now engaged in life work in which they find no pleasure or purpose and who run the risk of suddenly realizing someday that they have spent the only years that they are ever going to get in this world doing something which could not matter less to themselves or to anyone else.
Frederick Buechner
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight
Robert Frost
Retire from work, not from life.
M. K. Soni
This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one: being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm Forbes
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katherine Hepburn
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Victor Frankl
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five, I still had pimples.
George Burns
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
Anthony Trollope
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
John Dos Passos
The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.
Susan Miller
Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.
Donald Hall
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
Norman Vincent Peale
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it. The nonexistant is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
Norman Vincent Peale
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
Greer Garson
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do!
Henry Moore
Don’t be afraid of misfortune and do not yearn after happiness.  It is, after all, all the same.  The bitter doesn’t last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.  It is enough if you don’t freeze in the cold and if hunger and thirst don’t claw at your sides.  If your back isn’t broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms work, if both eyes can see, and if both ears can hear, then whom should you envy?  And why?  Our envy of others devours us most of all.  Rub your eyes and purify your heart and prize above all else in the world those who love you and wish you well.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In a world where there is so much drudgery, so much grief, so much emptiness and pain, our gladness in our work is as much needed as we ourselves need to be glad. If we keep our eyes and ears open, our hearts open, we will find the place surely. The phone will ring and we will jump not so much out of our skin as into our skin. If we keep our lives open, the right place will find us.
Frederick Buechner
Work and Play are words used to describe the same thing under different circumstances.
Mark Twain

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Is life or career coaching for you? Are you seeking a career, changing careers, retired or planning your retirement years? Are you looking for a more balanced Vasily Ingoglylife? If you are struggling with questions like the following, Métier Life and Career Coaching can help you get started on the pathway to real and lasting life satisfaction:

– Do you wonder how you can balance your career with the rest of your life?

– Are you trying to navigate a major life transition like job loss, graduation, or retirement?

– Has it been some time since you looked forward to going to work?

– Is your current career a real calling or vocation, or do you feel like you’re just marking time?

– Are you facing a major career change due to forces outside your control?

– Do you feel it’s time to pursue your life’s passion, but you’re not at all sure where to start?

– Are you considering retirement and trying figure out how you’ll fill your days with meaning?

You can achieve your goals, and do the things you really want to do! As your coach, I will work with you as a partner for success to identify the goals you really want to accomplish, focus on them so that you can accomplish more, and provide you with the tools, support, and structure you need so you can achieve all you’re capable of accomplishing.

Browse through this web site and see what life and career coaching can do for you; then, send me an email or call to schedule a free introductory session with absolutely no obligations and no strings attached! I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Although Métier is located in Naperville, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, clients from all locations across the United States and other countries are welcome!

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William (Vasily) Ingogly is certified as a Board Certified Coach (BCC) through the Center for Credentialing and Education, Certificate No. 18669, and as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Illinois, License No. 180006962.

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