Don't Allow Your Career To Define Who You Really Are

Who are you without your job?

DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CAREER TO DEFINE WHO YOU REALLY ARE!

For almost two decades of my corporate career, I never took time off sick. Seriously.

In my culture it was not “allowed”. Not encouraged. Unless you are literally dying.

?If you are taking off sick, you are irresponsible. Weak. Not reliable.

That is why no matter how bad I physically felt I was forcing myself to go to the office and perform.

Until one day I simply could not get out of bed.

I hardly managed to text my boss to inform her that I was taking a day off sick.

After 3 hours in bed, I had a very strange feeling inside. Unease. Anxiety. Tightness in my solar plexus.

I did not have a clue what was it about…instead…

I started to look for my work blackberry to check emails….Can you imagine?!?!

I was struggling to be still. To just lie down and let my body (and mind!) rest. I could not slow down. How can I do nothing? I felt very uncomfortable.

Here is the truth, ladies.

I felt like NOBODY without my job.

I felt EMPTY without working (given that I was not on holiday and it was not a weekend).

I felt anxious that something would happened at work and I’d miss it.

I realized my whole identity was linked to my career and my accomplishments.

The more I accomplished, the more worthy I felt.

And without me doing and accomplishing, I was not worthy. I was an empty spot. I was nobody.

That was scary. Terrifying.

That experience became a very intense and deep wake-up moment for me.

Something in me shifted back then.

I realized that there was something fundamentally wrong with that linkage of my identity to work.

I am so much more that my job.

I am so much more that my accomplishments.

I am so much more than my social status.

I do not need to have a CONDITION to be worthy. To be good enough.

I am enough right this minute. Just because I exist...

But at that specific moment in bed, I did not feel worthy and good enough. I did not feel connected and safe.

I did not even know who I really was. For so long I was "a banker", "I am in sales" type of woman.

Over the years of chasing the never-ending finish line, I completely lost touch with my true essence. I doubted if I ever actually knew who I was at my core. I did not have time for that. It was always too philosophical. Too deep for my logical mind.

But then specifically at that moment in bed, I finally heard (I was ignoring it for a LONG time) the whispering inside of me, asking me "If this is it? If this is what life is all about? Reaching yet another goal, yet another promotion, receiving yet another bonus?

I felt first time in my life -it was more than that. I can be do more. I can be more. I can have more.

Since then I embarked on the most beautiful and deeply transformational journey back to my real self.

That journey led me to a totally different career.

Totally different man (now my husband ??).

Totally different life overall.

From the bottom of my heart I am begging you -DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CAREER TO DEFINE WHO YOU REALLY ARE!

Instead ask yourself if your current job actually feels like YOU? Does it allow you to express who you really are? Does it allow you to use our full potential and make impact you've always craved for?

And if not -start thinking about what else is possible for you.

Your career should reflect WHO you are really are at your CORE.

This career exists. It is out there. You just need to make a decision to go and claim it.

If you are ready to transition to the career that lights you up and makes you feel excited on Monday mornings, let's chat.

Let me show you how your life and career can be peaceful, meaningful, deeply satisfying and financially rewarding.

Book a call with me here and let me show you the way back home to where you belong -aligned career and deeply satisfying and meaningful life.

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