I consider myself privileged to work in an field I am passionate about.
It has incredible variety, lots of challenges, requires a lot of commitment and the reward is seeing lives transformed.
But no matter what you spend your days on, it pays to connect with others who can bring fresh perspective to your world.
I recently engaged a consultant to do exactly that.
At the moment I’ve got six, one-hour sessions booked about 4-6 weeks apart each.
In this process I am not looking for someone with lots of fancy phrases and techniques that I can busy myself with. I am looking for someone who has been where I have been, and has built something great that has stood the test of time.
I want to learn from the best!
So I give them open access, no-holds-barred, “hit me where it hurts”! Ouch!
The first big challenge is a great one. It’s making me reassess whether I am as passionate as I think I am about what I do. That’s right, is the reality what I think it is?
If I am finding it hard to spend the time I need on things that matter, what does this say about my passion? Maybe what I think is a time-management issue is really a passion problem?!
Perhaps if I reconnect with why I love doing what I do, then distraction won’t be an issue because I’ll being doing what I love best. Then the ongoing, unending demands of administration won’t overtake the things that really matter – because I won’t let them!
Wouldn’t have seen it from that perspective myself. I could have spent months working on the wrong problem, when in an hour I got to the root of the problem.
Thanks John!
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