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Assistive Technology Suppliers Australia (ATSA) Ltd – Supporting an industry which values the independence of people with disability, seniors, their families and carers

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Supporting an industry that empowers people living with disability and older persons to live independent lives.

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-by Prof. Michele Callisaya

1, Cognitive Stimulation Treatment（CST），中文常譯為「認知刺激治療」或「認知促進治療」，是一種用於提升或維持認知功能的非藥物介入方式，特別常見於針對**失智症（Dementia）或輕度認知障礙（MCI）患者的照護中。

2, stigma, disempowerment, low knowledge, and lack of availability of services對於服務的提供有很大的影響

3, 相較於PT的領域，OT可以針對行為、溝通、認知附近進行努力

4, 蠻多醫療介入跟社區活動會排除Dementia者，所以experienced dementia professionals with cognitive difficulties者需要針對criteria, facilitators, barriers, 進行倡議，尤其是如果能找到champion可以讓倡議更順利

5, dementia clinical guidelines (cognitive rehabilitation) will be updated in 2025; 和phn South Eastern Melbourne有合作

https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/help-at-home/home-care-packages

6, Funding difficulties: how to find the term "rehab" in the project to be not misleading but be acceptable across AUS，因為rehab一詞不被NDIS所歡迎lol，目前沒有一個詞能讓大家都開心滿意

7, Dementia assessment in the community: GP有DTA course的加持去進行評估，但有仍許多人並沒有dementia的診斷

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For older Australians in need of more complex aged care services, a Home Care Package can offer coordinated and affordable care services in your own home.

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This Padlet was created for overseas occupational therapists (OTs) planning to become registered OTs in Australia. Feel free to use the search bar in the upper-right corner (for laptop users) OR at the bottom (for mobile users), with your search terms to find the information you need.

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This Padlet was created for overseas occupational therapists (OTs) planning to become registered OTs in Australia. Feel free to use the search bar in the upper-right corner (for laptop users) OR at the bottom (for mobile users), with your search terms to find the information you need.

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這個 Padlet 是為計劃在澳洲取得職能治療師（OT）執照的海外治療師所設立。歡迎使用搜尋欄（筆電使用者請看右上角，手機/平板使用者請看頁面底部），輸入關鍵字以查找所需資訊。

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這個 Padlet 是為計劃在澳洲取得職能治療師（OT）執照的海外治療師所設立。歡迎使用搜尋欄（筆電使用者請看右上角，手機/平板使用者請看頁面底部），輸入關鍵字以查找所需資訊。

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This Padlet was created for overseas occupational therapists (OTs) planning to become registered OTs in Australia. Feel free to use the search bar in the upper-right corner (for laptop users) OR at the bottom (for mobile users), with your search terms to find the information you need.

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Elvira Lee - Client Support Officer - QUT (Queensland University of Technology) | LinkedIn

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Senior Occupational Therapist (OT) l Public Health Master's student (MPH) l Assistive Technology (AT) specialist · Starting in 2022, she began her master's journey in public health at Brisbane, driven by a passion for promoting overall health. With a focus on epidemiology and health statistics, she finds these areas not only fascinating but also essential for improving the well-being of everyone. During her master’s program, she has been dedicated to understanding the enablers and barriers that shape disadvantaged students' lives and learning experiences. She has actively engaged in formal staff roles and peer volunteer programs, crafting a project research proposal to investigate and provide recommendations for equity promotion to support equity groups.

Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy. She’s well-versed in Assistive Technology and has extensive experience working with chronic conditions like stroke rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury, as well as in vocational rehabilitation. She has put these skills to work in various healthcare settings and never stops enhancing her expertise, participating in ongoing training and earning additional certifications to stay at the top of her field. · Experience: QUT (Queensland University of Technology) · Education: QUT (Queensland University of Technology) · Location: Brisbane · 110 connections on LinkedIn. View Elvira Lee’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

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Elvira Lee - Client Support Officer - QUT (Queensland University of Technology) | LinkedIn

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Senior Occupational Therapist (OT) l Public Health Master's student (MPH) l Assistive Technology (AT) specialist · Starting in 2022, she began her master's journey in public health at Brisbane, driven by a passion for promoting overall health. With a focus on epidemiology and health statistics, she finds these areas not only fascinating but also essential for improving the well-being of everyone. During her master’s program, she has been dedicated to understanding the enablers and barriers that shape disadvantaged students' lives and learning experiences. She has actively engaged in formal staff roles and peer volunteer programs, crafting a project research proposal to investigate and provide recommendations for equity promotion to support equity groups.

Her background includes a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy. She’s well-versed in Assistive Technology and has extensive experience working with chronic conditions like stroke rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury, as well as in vocational rehabilitation. She has put these skills to work in various healthcare settings and never stops enhancing her expertise, participating in ongoing training and earning additional certifications to stay at the top of her field. · Experience: QUT (Queensland University of Technology) · Education: QUT (Queensland University of Technology) · Location: Brisbane · 110 connections on LinkedIn. View Elvira Lee’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

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NDIS 目前支援超過 50 萬名澳洲身心障礙者獲得所需的服務和支援。

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National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

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National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)

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We agree that this will present additional challenges for therapy providers and OTA will be feeding this back to NDIA and Government. We'd welcome specific examples/instances where the new funding periods impact OT service delivery so we can escalate this and refer to specific (deidentified) examples. Please email to policy@otaus.com.au

我們的職能治療師又再次成了計畫中的「中間人」，必須解讀計畫規則，然後再向個案說明。

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還在擔心你的英文能力嗎？選個播客開啟你的英文打磨之旅吧

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Ep 109 - OT Unleashed: From Clinician to Entrepreneur

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Podcast · Trish Williams · This show is for the Occupational Therapy Entrepreneur who wants to grow and scale their business. We know that OTs lead with service, but what about the financial reward? Yep, we are breaking down those barriers and discussing money! Let’s find out exactly how OT business owners get paid, what they spend their business budgets on, their income and impact goals and how you too can grow a profitable OT business and GET PAID.

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如果你從未認真思考過澳洲的每個細節，建議你取得公民後一定要去針對每個生活常識，做英文口說練習

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如果你的英文無法應對複雜的生活情境，還有口譯服務可以幫你，當然最簡單的方法是，自助，天助自助者，把口譯考起來，省下在澳洲當無頭蒼蠅的窘境

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Will working in Australia become a burden for you, or will it open the door to a new beginning?

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Will working in Australia become a burden for you, or will it open the door to a new beginning?

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你是來澳洲尋找成長的機會，發現職能治療的深層意義嗎？

還是希望在這裡充實自我，享受獨特的生活體驗呢？

What is your passion, mission, profession, and vocation?

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What gets you out of bed in the morning? Is it career progression or your kids? Your Friday night plans or a hot cup of coffee?

This is a question we all wrestle with at some point in our lives and there's rarely an easy answer.

But in a time of immense global uncertainty, it pays to pause and reflect on your life and on what's important to you. There's never been a better time to consider your personal ikigai.

What Is Ikigai?

Ikigai can be translated as "to live (iki) and reason (gai)" - essentially, what is the source of your daily motivation?

Ikigai can be adopted as a practical philosophy for life, a way to find strength in tough times, and even as a long-term career planner. It can give value to mundane, humdrum activities, while also helping you to identify what you truly value

I think it's fair to say we don't all spring out of bed every morning propelled by our core reason for being. Many of us reluctantly accept we've hit "snooze" on our alarms as much as we can get away with, and drag our weary limbs out of the sheets.

So how can you find your ikigai?

The Four Elements of Ikigai

A Venn diagram of "the four elements" of ikigai has blazed a trail through team chats, boardrooms, and HR presentations in recent years.

Albert Liebermann and Hector Garcia popularized this way of applying ikigai with their book, "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life."

This diagram shows ikigai as the convergence of four areas of life: what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.

The very center, where each area overlaps, is your ikigai - your reason for getting up and where you should focus your efforts to find ultimate fulfillment.

Whether you're a janitor, journalist or Jeff Bezos, if you find your Ikigai, you'll find pleasure and value in what you do.

The Five Pillars of Ikigai

Beyond your career, ikigai can become a framework for approaching life in general. Tokyo-based neuroscientist and author Ken Mogi identifies the five central pillars of ikigai as:

Starting small

Releasing yourself

Harmony and sustainability

The joy of little things

Being in the here and now

According to Mogi, these pillars formed as a natural extension of the Japanese mindset and culture. Still, he acknowledges that anyone can adopt these tenets in their life.

Much like mindfulness, the key is to be present in the moment. At the same time, it's unmistakably about looking forward - the anticipation of that cup of coffee or weekend activity. And crucially, it's about savoring the moments when they arrive.

Many of us live our lives always planning the next thing, trapped in a constant state of busyness. There's truth in the adage that "life is what happens when we're busy making plans." I'm certainly guilty of living around the corner: "If I just get here, or do this, I'll be happy, I'll be content."

Yes, I eagerly anticipate that morning cup of coffee, but by the time it arrives I've usually got one eye on the clock, my mind frantically calculating the fastest route to the office while I'm throwing on my jacket.

Where Buddhism teaches you to shed the things you crave to find freedom and peace, ikigai is about appreciating and consciously enjoying those things once you have them.

Mogi uses the examples of a tea-pouring ceremony and the daily routine of a Sumo wrestler, both of which require the application of the pillars. Taken in this way, ikigai can be found in simple pleasures, like your weekend hobby or morning exercise routine. Iikigai teaches you to look forward to something and savor the moment when it arrives.

Ikigai and Your Career

Taking the cue from the four elements diagram, seeking your ikigai is akin to finding your dream job.

Imagine combining what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and - the kicker - what you can get paid for. Is it even possible?

Finding Your Calling

This seems especially tricky if, like me, you haven't got a clue what you want for dinner, let alone what your ultimate calling in life is.

We've all heard stories of dramatic career changes in pursuit of dreams. Like ditching the nine-to-five to become a ski instructor, or quitting a high-powered corporate role to retrain as a midwife.

But it doesn't have to be so drastic.

Consider which types of tasks give you the most pleasure in your current job:

Do you enjoy managing people or working in isolation on technical tasks?

Do you get satisfaction from solving complex issues or prefer giving presentations and chairing interviews?

Do you like directly managing stakeholders or do you love to get stuck into a spreadsheet?

By slowly sifting out the aspects of your work you don't enjoy, and increasing what you do, you can start to gain a sense of your ikigai.

Saving the World

But does this cover the trickiest aspect to ascertain - is it something the world needs?

This selfless, giving aspect of ikigai traditionally manifests as giving yourself over to something other than yourself. This isn't perhaps as difficult as it first appears.

You don't need to quit your job to go retrain as a vet or start a charity. The first pillar of ikigai teaches us to ' start small.' Giving yourself over to something else can be as simple as offering to buy your elderly neighbors some groceries, taking a day out to volunteer, or providing apprenticeships to underprivileged community members. Small moments and gestures of kindness can have a dramatic impact on how you feel about the other areas of your life.

Many organizations already engage with the third pillar of ikigai ('harmony and sustainability') by adopting a " triple bottom line" - placing profit alongside the impact on the planet and people as a measure of success. This approach to social responsibility can manifest a greater sense of purpose that has a subtle, but powerful, effect on how we relate to our work. Especially on a dreary Monday morning...

Finding Flow

You might be thinking that finding your ultimate calling is all well and good, but right now you're struggling to feel engaged in your job and it doesn't look like there's a way out of it any time soon. Ikigai, as a way of life, doesn't just have to be about finding your mission: it can help you today - right now!

Ken Mogi vouches for pleasure through absorption in an activity. Work can become an end in itself - not something to endure to get something else, like a promotion or bonus.

Mogi uses Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of being " in flow" to illuminate how getting lost in even the most mundane of tasks can bring you a sense of reward and freedom. (This is related to the pillars "releasing yourself" and "being in the here and now").

Whether you're washing the dishes or working through a spreadsheet, once in flow, you can gain pleasure from work and release yourself from the need for reward and recognition. Ironically, this can make you more likely to be rewarded and recognized.

Of course, this doesn't preclude having goals or a long-term plan. It simply asks us to be more present and make the most of the life we're living right now.

We all experience ups and downs in our careers. By finding pleasure in the "flow," even the most mundane of tasks can become rewarding, and help to see us through a rough patch.

A Philosophy for Life

Japan is a notoriously work-obsessed country. Along with innovative workplace developments (including the game-changing kanban and Kaizen systems), Japan is also known as the land of crammed dawn commuter trains, limited paid time off, and it even has a word for death from overwork (karoshi).

It might be tempting to consider ikigai as little more than a coping mechanism - a way of stretching yourself to the limit in a brutal work environment. But ikigai is more than simply maintaining hope and concentration in high-pressure situations.

Blue Zones

In David Buttner's book, "Blue Zones," he identifies several areas of the world with peculiarly high numbers of centenarians. This includes Nuoro in Sardinia, Loma Loma in California, and Okinawa, Japan.

He describes the northern province of Okinawa as the "ground zero" of longevity. It just so happens to be the home of ikigai, too.

In his 2009 TED talk, Buttner recounts his meetings with these Okinawans. He met a woman cradling her great-great-great-great granddaughter. He also hung out with a 100-year-old fisherman - on asking what his ikigai is, the man said catching fish to feed his family three times a week.

Buettner identifies several aspects of each long-living community, including committing to something beyond yourself and having a sense of purpose. Retirement can be a difficult transition to make. But Okinawan residents with a strong ikigai (including a 102-year-old practicing karate teacher) don't experience a sense of loss or lack of direction when they retire - their purpose for life continues.

As Buttner puts it, cultures with a high percentage of centenarians all have a "vocabulary for a sense of purpose." This is crucial for a successful retirement.

Looking Forward

Now, I don't know about you, but I stress about the little things, don't have a solid career plan, and I can struggle to concentrate on mundane tasks (let alone find joy in them).

But...

Since discovering ikigai I've unwittingly adopted certain aspects of the five pillars. I found myself stopping to enjoy the rain on my walk home, rather than speeding up to avoid it ( the joy of little things); I try not to take credit for all the little work "victories" ( releasing myself); and I try to take at least 30-minutes a day to do exercise or mindfulness, anything that slows my racing mind ( being in the here and now).

By combining the perfect career-seeking powers of the Venn diagram, with the more foundational five pillars, you can build up to something new.

I'm not there yet, but I can almost see my ikigai. It's in my peripheral vision, just around the corner - but I'm choosing to look at the here and now.

Recommended Resources

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Creating Job Satisfaction Improve Your Concentration How Can Stoicism Help You at Work? Deming's 14-Point Philosophy Working With Purpose

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Mind Tools editor Matthew Hughes looks at how the Japanese concept of ikigai - "reason for being" - can be used to find career fulfillment.

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Will working in Australia become a burden for you, or will it open the door to a new beginning?

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你是來澳洲尋找成長的機會，發現職能治療的深層意義嗎？

還是希望在這裡充實自我，享受獨特的生活體驗呢？

What is your passion, mission, profession, and vocation?

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What gets you out of bed in the morning? Is it career progression or your kids? Your Friday night plans or a hot cup of coffee?

This is a question we all wrestle with at some point in our lives and there's rarely an easy answer.

But in a time of immense global uncertainty, it pays to pause and reflect on your life and on what's important to you. There's never been a better time to consider your personal ikigai.

What Is Ikigai?

Ikigai can be translated as "to live (iki) and reason (gai)" - essentially, what is the source of your daily motivation?

Ikigai can be adopted as a practical philosophy for life, a way to find strength in tough times, and even as a long-term career planner. It can give value to mundane, humdrum activities, while also helping you to identify what you truly value

I think it's fair to say we don't all spring out of bed every morning propelled by our core reason for being. Many of us reluctantly accept we've hit "snooze" on our alarms as much as we can get away with, and drag our weary limbs out of the sheets.

So how can you find your ikigai?

The Four Elements of Ikigai

A Venn diagram of "the four elements" of ikigai has blazed a trail through team chats, boardrooms, and HR presentations in recent years.

Albert Liebermann and Hector Garcia popularized this way of applying ikigai with their book, "Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life."

This diagram shows ikigai as the convergence of four areas of life: what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.

The very center, where each area overlaps, is your ikigai - your reason for getting up and where you should focus your efforts to find ultimate fulfillment.

Whether you're a janitor, journalist or Jeff Bezos, if you find your Ikigai, you'll find pleasure and value in what you do.

The Five Pillars of Ikigai

Beyond your career, ikigai can become a framework for approaching life in general. Tokyo-based neuroscientist and author Ken Mogi identifies the five central pillars of ikigai as:

Starting small

Releasing yourself

Harmony and sustainability

The joy of little things

Being in the here and now

According to Mogi, these pillars formed as a natural extension of the Japanese mindset and culture. Still, he acknowledges that anyone can adopt these tenets in their life.

Much like mindfulness, the key is to be present in the moment. At the same time, it's unmistakably about looking forward - the anticipation of that cup of coffee or weekend activity. And crucially, it's about savoring the moments when they arrive.

Many of us live our lives always planning the next thing, trapped in a constant state of busyness. There's truth in the adage that "life is what happens when we're busy making plans." I'm certainly guilty of living around the corner: "If I just get here, or do this, I'll be happy, I'll be content."

Yes, I eagerly anticipate that morning cup of coffee, but by the time it arrives I've usually got one eye on the clock, my mind frantically calculating the fastest route to the office while I'm throwing on my jacket.

Where Buddhism teaches you to shed the things you crave to find freedom and peace, ikigai is about appreciating and consciously enjoying those things once you have them.

Mogi uses the examples of a tea-pouring ceremony and the daily routine of a Sumo wrestler, both of which require the application of the pillars. Taken in this way, ikigai can be found in simple pleasures, like your weekend hobby or morning exercise routine. Iikigai teaches you to look forward to something and savor the moment when it arrives.

Ikigai and Your Career

Taking the cue from the four elements diagram, seeking your ikigai is akin to finding your dream job.

Imagine combining what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and - the kicker - what you can get paid for. Is it even possible?

Finding Your Calling

This seems especially tricky if, like me, you haven't got a clue what you want for dinner, let alone what your ultimate calling in life is.

We've all heard stories of dramatic career changes in pursuit of dreams. Like ditching the nine-to-five to become a ski instructor, or quitting a high-powered corporate role to retrain as a midwife.

But it doesn't have to be so drastic.

Consider which types of tasks give you the most pleasure in your current job:

Do you enjoy managing people or working in isolation on technical tasks?

Do you get satisfaction from solving complex issues or prefer giving presentations and chairing interviews?

Do you like directly managing stakeholders or do you love to get stuck into a spreadsheet?

By slowly sifting out the aspects of your work you don't enjoy, and increasing what you do, you can start to gain a sense of your ikigai.

Saving the World

But does this cover the trickiest aspect to ascertain - is it something the world needs?

This selfless, giving aspect of ikigai traditionally manifests as giving yourself over to something other than yourself. This isn't perhaps as difficult as it first appears.

You don't need to quit your job to go retrain as a vet or start a charity. The first pillar of ikigai teaches us to ' start small.' Giving yourself over to something else can be as simple as offering to buy your elderly neighbors some groceries, taking a day out to volunteer, or providing apprenticeships to underprivileged community members. Small moments and gestures of kindness can have a dramatic impact on how you feel about the other areas of your life.

Many organizations already engage with the third pillar of ikigai ('harmony and sustainability') by adopting a " triple bottom line" - placing profit alongside the impact on the planet and people as a measure of success. This approach to social responsibility can manifest a greater sense of purpose that has a subtle, but powerful, effect on how we relate to our work. Especially on a dreary Monday morning...

Finding Flow

You might be thinking that finding your ultimate calling is all well and good, but right now you're struggling to feel engaged in your job and it doesn't look like there's a way out of it any time soon. Ikigai, as a way of life, doesn't just have to be about finding your mission: it can help you today - right now!

Ken Mogi vouches for pleasure through absorption in an activity. Work can become an end in itself - not something to endure to get something else, like a promotion or bonus.

Mogi uses Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of being " in flow" to illuminate how getting lost in even the most mundane of tasks can bring you a sense of reward and freedom. (This is related to the pillars "releasing yourself" and "being in the here and now").

Whether you're washing the dishes or working through a spreadsheet, once in flow, you can gain pleasure from work and release yourself from the need for reward and recognition. Ironically, this can make you more likely to be rewarded and recognized.

Of course, this doesn't preclude having goals or a long-term plan. It simply asks us to be more present and make the most of the life we're living right now.

We all experience ups and downs in our careers. By finding pleasure in the "flow," even the most mundane of tasks can become rewarding, and help to see us through a rough patch.

A Philosophy for Life

Japan is a notoriously work-obsessed country. Along with innovative workplace developments (including the game-changing kanban and Kaizen systems), Japan is also known as the land of crammed dawn commuter trains, limited paid time off, and it even has a word for death from overwork (karoshi).

It might be tempting to consider ikigai as little more than a coping mechanism - a way of stretching yourself to the limit in a brutal work environment. But ikigai is more than simply maintaining hope and concentration in high-pressure situations.

Blue Zones

In David Buttner's book, "Blue Zones," he identifies several areas of the world with peculiarly high numbers of centenarians. This includes Nuoro in Sardinia, Loma Loma in California, and Okinawa, Japan.

He describes the northern province of Okinawa as the "ground zero" of longevity. It just so happens to be the home of ikigai, too.

In his 2009 TED talk, Buttner recounts his meetings with these Okinawans. He met a woman cradling her great-great-great-great granddaughter. He also hung out with a 100-year-old fisherman - on asking what his ikigai is, the man said catching fish to feed his family three times a week.

Buettner identifies several aspects of each long-living community, including committing to something beyond yourself and having a sense of purpose. Retirement can be a difficult transition to make. But Okinawan residents with a strong ikigai (including a 102-year-old practicing karate teacher) don't experience a sense of loss or lack of direction when they retire - their purpose for life continues.

As Buttner puts it, cultures with a high percentage of centenarians all have a "vocabulary for a sense of purpose." This is crucial for a successful retirement.

Looking Forward

Now, I don't know about you, but I stress about the little things, don't have a solid career plan, and I can struggle to concentrate on mundane tasks (let alone find joy in them).

But...

Since discovering ikigai I've unwittingly adopted certain aspects of the five pillars. I found myself stopping to enjoy the rain on my walk home, rather than speeding up to avoid it ( the joy of little things); I try not to take credit for all the little work "victories" ( releasing myself); and I try to take at least 30-minutes a day to do exercise or mindfulness, anything that slows my racing mind ( being in the here and now).

By combining the perfect career-seeking powers of the Venn diagram, with the more foundational five pillars, you can build up to something new.

I'm not there yet, but I can almost see my ikigai. It's in my peripheral vision, just around the corner - but I'm choosing to look at the here and now.

Recommended Resources

These Mind tools resources offer more insight on finding purpose, motivation, efficiency and proficiency in your career. Mind Tools members have full access to the following tools.
Creating Job Satisfaction Improve Your Concentration How Can Stoicism Help You at Work? Deming's 14-Point Philosophy Working With Purpose

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What's Your Ikigai? Finding Meaning in Work and Life - Mind Tools

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* Australian Autism Alliance
AFDO - Australian Federation Of Disability Organisations
* Children and Young People with Disability Australia - CYDA
* Community Mental Health Australia
* Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) Ltd
* Down Syndrome Australia
* First Peoples Disability Network Australia
* Inclusion Australia
* National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA)
* National Mental Health Consumer Alliance
* People with Disability Australia (PWDA)
* Physical Disability Australia Ltd (PDA)
* Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)

* Physical Disability Australia Ltd (PDA)

National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)

* Department of Social Services (DSS)

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Foundational Supports（基礎支持）：通常是指提供給身心障礙者的社區性、早期介入或能力建構服務，這些服務不屬於個別 NDIS 計畫中的項目，例如同儕支持、資源引導、社區參與方案及早期支持服務等。代表說有些邊緣患者，不完全符合NDIS補助但是有需求，例如需要更進階的重返職場能力、或是作為九成康復後的持續支持，這個階段的病人會需要被重視跟建立正向的環境給他們。

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OTA 所參與的相關工作，包括意見書、倡議活動或與政府部門的合作情況

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