You like your business Oh seriously. Do you?
Many of us have spent much more time in recent times dealing with the need for social estrangement from the pandemic (unless, of course, you have young people at home, in which case you would probably like to have more time).
We all regret seeing our friends and families, traveling and dining freely, going to concerts, movies, sporting events or the theater. We are social beings, and it is especially stressful when we have to “take a social distance” with ourselves and others from COVID-19, when it is literally a matter of fitness and safety, or even of life or death.
Living is “kissing … independence, self-expression and non-public election”
Living is quite common. The recent U.S. highest census indicates that another 36 million people live in Array and this is increasing. This represents 11% of the total U.S. population, or more than one in ten people. 28% of others under the age of 25, 19% of people over 25 to 44, 26% of people over 45 to 64 and 42% of people over 65 live in the United States.
The forces in action reflect the effect of greater independence of women, greater strength in the office and as entrepreneurs, and more resources to help women’s well-being and economic success, at least in developed countries.
“Feeding global construction only in life is a very consequential trend in the opposite direction to the orientation of the circle of relatives: the emergence of individualism”, Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. wrote recently on Psychology Today. “Over more than a century, more and more people have embraced values such as independence, self-expression and non-public choice. They need to live the kind of life that best suits them, even if it takes them away from the more traditional or celebrated ways of life, such as getting married and having children. Added to that is the generation that allows us to be practically hooked and the rise of urban life, and living alone is not as insulating as in the afterlife.
There are two similar attractive trends that can also herald women’s career advancement. First, with the ubiquity of remote paintings due to this “new normal” forced through the pandemic, more and more men know how difficult it is to juggle paintings and family obligations, so that they develop their sensitivity to those realities and explore policies. that may just be women in the office (and men) in the long run.
Another trend discussed through DePaulo is that, as more men live alone, they also have to take on the family responsibilities and responsibilities that a classic gender scheme expects from women. This trend can help their relationships and the independence of women in their lives.
Women are much more likely to live alone than men over 65, basically because women live longer than men. Women also have a tendency to move professionally to higher positions after men, for various reasons similar to non-public selection and opportunities (or not) in the workplace.
Women also have to paint longer than men, because women have less income than men throughout their lives, because women are not paid more than 80% of what men earn, and that’s a massive improvement over time, and that’s much worse for women of color, as I wrote earlier in Forbes.
“Welcome time with a friend”
We can be alone as a “welcome time with oneself as one might wish to spend time with a friend,” as psychotherapist Stephanie Dowrick put it in her e-book “Intimacy and Loneliness.”
Dowrick explains that loneliness is an opportunity to be attentive or sensitive to the desires or presence of others.
Being LivingArray can be a time of wonderful self-awareness, creativity and productivity. It can also be an era of bingeing, bingeing, sleep and laziness, unhappiness for yourself. Being comfortable is vital to our intellectual health, our relationships, our creativity and the achievement of your goals.
It all depends on how you see it, and it’s a choice.
Read my next Forbes blog for tips on how to maximize loneliness and use it to expand your career, as well as to be happier and healthier.
Joan Michelson is a professional coach, dynamic speaker and presenter of the acclaimed Green Connections Radio podcast with cutting-edge women who have an impact. @joanmichelson
Joan Michelson is a professional coach, dynamic speaker and presenter of the acclaimed Green Connections Radio podcast with cutting-edge women who have an impact. @joanmichelson or greenconnectionsradio.com