A number of years ago I had an epiphany (my wife calls it a brain fart) – I was in a job that I enjoyed with a team I really liked but didn’t feel fulfilled. I had been in the organisation for a while, our industry had suffered a significant downturn and we weren’t handling it particularly well, it was an extremely difficult environment. On the other hand, my wife loved her job more than anyone that I know, and I wanted some of that.
In the space of a week 3 major things happened that helped change my direction.
At the retreat my friend mentioned to the facilitator that she hadn’t heard me laugh the whole weekend. We had shared an office a number of years before and had enjoyed many great belly laughs during that time. She asked me where I was up to with my training company, I couldn’t even remember the conversation much less the idea. This made me reflect on where I was heading and became the beginning of a very confronting time in my life that provided the opportunity for me to reset my compass. A couple of lessons from this:
Fast forward 3 years, I now run my own Sales Training & Coaching business, my life’s vision is to live in a world where people love what they do and are proud of who they are. It is still early days and I have had some (read heaps) really tough ones but I know that I am now a better husband, father and friend for living my life on MY purpose, not someone else’s KPIs.
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